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  Be Prepared, 'Mufasa: The Lion King' Circles Back to Its Classic Origins

  Directed by Barry Jenkins

  PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2024

  From its opening tribute to the late James Earl Jones, Barry Jenkins's 'Mufasa: The Lion King' makes certain to pay care and respect to the...

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  The Weather Station Is Shadowboxing Herself on "Body Moves"

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  PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2024

  On "Body Moves," Tamara Lindeman is shadowboxing, dodging the swings and fakeouts of a form in rebellion. The latest taste of the luminous...

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  'The Brutalist' Builds Up and Tears Down the American Dream

  Directed by Brady Corbet

  PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2024

  The first thing that Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth (Adrien Brody) sees upon emerging from the dark, cramped...

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  Chris Rock Relived the Good Old Days on 'SNL' with Help from Adam Sandler

  December 14, 2024

  PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2024

  Chris Rock returned for a strong episode of Saturday Night Live, joined at one point by his 'SNL' castmate Adam Sandler, and Gracie Abrams...

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  The Tragically Hip and Feist's "'It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken'" Carries the Spirit — If Not the Sound — of Gord Downie

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  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024

  The Tragically Hip have wisely not reunited since singer Gord Downie's tragic death in 2017, but they closest they came was doing a...

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  Montreal's Graham Steinman Communes with the Sublime on 'migration's only natural'

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  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024

  Being from the middle of nowhere doesn't necessarily mean you feel connected to nature in a way others don't. On the contrary, people like...

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  Julien Baker & TORRES Make the Country Pivot Fresh Again on "Sugar in the Tank"

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  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024

  I don't know about you, but I'm a bit fatigued by the pivot to country. Country music's sounds and aesthetics have been infiltrating...

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  'Kraven the Hunter' Is Cravin' to Be Put Out of Its Misery

  Directed by J.C. Chandor

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024

  Sony's Spider-Man Villain Spin-Off Universe (or as Sony likes to call it, "Sony's Spider-Man Universe") has been a disaster, a series of ba...