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'Hocus Pocus 2' conjures a new witches' brew

4 years ago
Disney regularly wrings inordinate mileage out of nostalgia, which can easily obscure when the source wasn't quite as worthy of praise as we like to remember. "Hocus Pocus 2" should benefit from that dynamic, delivering a breezy sequel -- 29 years later -- that should provide go-down-easy Halloween viewing for families in the less-demanding confines of Disney+.

Ana de Armas' fearless performance deserves a better movie than 'Blonde'

4 years ago
The gap between a star performance and the movie containing it has seldom been wider than in "Blonde," which features Ana de Armas stunningly capturing the look and essence of Marilyn Monroe in the service of a film that's pretentious, heavy handed and lengthy to the point of exhaustion. Netflix will surely get its money's worth attention-wise thanks in part to its restrictive NC-17 rating, but the film's merits burn out long before its credits ever roll.

'Cobra Kai' hasn't lost its kick as it keeps 'Karate Kid'-ing around

4 years ago
Crossing the streams with its sequels, the fifth season of "Cobra Kai" features heavy dollops of the second and third "The Karate Kid" movies while continue to carve out its own next-generation melodrama, all in extraordinarily nimble fashion. While it's not the best series on TV (OK, Netflix), there should be some kind of prize for the best revival culled from limited source material.

'Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga' presents the David-vs.-Goliath battle that roiled Wall Street

4 years ago
The best part of "Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga" is that it manages to tell a complicated financial story with a fair amount of humor and context, in a way that doesn't demonize the various parties, which doesn't spare them from various levels of mockery. The result is a Netflix docuseries that, despite a few excesses, exposes the more ridiculous aspects of stock trading and where all that paper can come to resemble a house of cards.
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