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Former Disney Channel star and current Priyanka Chopra husband Nick Jonas isn’t a natural comedy performer — his practiced brand of rigid geniality translated into some very stilted reading off of the cue cards on this week’s “Saturday Night Live.”
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By the end, “The Mauritanian” claws itself out of the pit it fell into, but far too late. Once it recognizes daylight, like the crashing waves seen through a tattered prison fence in a late scene, it rushes to save itself.
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Though the Golden Globes don’t necessarily presage the rest of the awards season, “Nomadland” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” emerge as the films to beat heading into future ceremonies.
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With the final episodes of its third season, “Grown-ish” moves away from weirdly trying its hand at solving real world issues with idyllic, Disney Channel-like life lessons.
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“Nomadland” chooses to subtly diagnose an ill of society — the industry that forces older, seasoned folks like Fern to uproot — without prescribing a moralizing solution.
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Blakeson’s direction is uneven, but some of his swipes at American capitalism do land with a pleasant sting. It’s Pike, though, who provides the film with its energy.
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Host Regé-Jean Page tackled the series from the jump in his monologue, which featured a few of the “SNL” ladies lusting over him and eagerly invoking his show’s much-discussed sex scenes.
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While “Framing Britney Spears” might not be concrete enough to be used in court against Spears’ conservatorship, it could easily catalyze a reckoning of the abuse she faced at the hands of the media.
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Balancing charming and mawkish just enough to be the right level of heartwarming, the exquisite chemistry between Condor and Centineo carries the film.
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The best of this week’s sketches smartly called on King’s Oscar-winning acting chops, allowing her to commit to outsize characters.
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