‘Toy Story 4’ is slight but sweet farewell to Pixar’s crown jewel
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“Toy Story 4” will likely mark the umpteenth time the studio has produced the most colorful and consistently funny comedy of the season.
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There are zero good reasons to see ‘Aladdin’ remake
Disney’s prolific scheme to manufacture live-action remakes of its animated canon has suffered an unprecedented mechanical failure.
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Battle of the Arts: Our graduating writers on the most spectacular films of all time
For them, these picks provide inspiration, inspire awe, exemplify “high” or “low” art and, ideally, leave space for a few chuckles in between.
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‘Booksmart’ explores chaos, restlessness of the end of high school
“Booksmart” understands the stakes of this specific quarterlife crisis, spinning an entertaining thread before falling prey to its tendency to sugarcoat the situation.
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On making a generational anthem: An interview with the cast and crew of ‘Booksmart’
“Booksmart” is a story of female friendship. And Wilde made clear that she wanted to highlight the enthusiasm coming from different people.
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With ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ Marvel’s heroes shut up and play the hits
“Either it’s all a joke or none of it is,” Bruce Banner quips about his time travel research, inadvertantly diagnosing the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Claire Denis shoots the moon with her terrifying, tender ‘High Life’
Denis’ vision of space as a lifeless ocean where dead bodies sink like rocks and her attention to corporeal bodies.
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Serving a life sentence in the final frontier: An interview with ‘High Life’ director Claire Denis
“A country where the power of being a bad seed means you cannot exist anymore; there is no chance to be saved,” Denis said. “And, me, I always have a little problem with that. I think there should be a second chance.”
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Reel Talk episode 4: Avengers
Avengers assemble! In episode four of Reel Talk, Daily Cal arts and entertainment staffers Grace Orriss (a Marvel lover) and Jackson Murphy (a Marvel hater) rank all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films and talk about the road to Avengers: Endgame.
A minor pleasure, Laika Studios is capable of much more than ‘Missing Link’
“Missing Link” never displays an ambition to be more than pleasant company, but its hearty success makes it a tonic against the hyperactive babel that crowds the market.
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