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‘The Addams Family’ proves that some families are scarier than others

The latest take on Charles Addams’s signature creation might make for passable Halloween-season viewing, but it works too hard to assert its ghoulish brood’s relevance.

Will Smith in ‘Gemini Man’ isn’t the first actor to play lookalike characters

Twins and clones are sure to test an actor’s mettle.

Movie openings and special screenings coming soon to Boston

What’s coming up on the local movies scene.

10 of pop culture’s legendary self-absorbed monsters

From Captain Queeg to Captain Ahab: making megalomania great again.

In Focus | Peter Keough
In Focus: Eyes on Gaza at the MFA’s Boston Palestine Film Festival
A preview of two documentaries at the annual festival.

Doc Talk | Peter Keough
Doc Talk: Fleeing the Taliban, connecting with Shirley Clarke, witch hunting
Previews of upcoming documentaries and of an ongoing documentary program.

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In ‘Gemini Man,’ a role so nice Will Smith plays it twice

In Ang Lee’s latest, he’s a hit man hunted by a clone of himself.

Movie Review

In ‘The Laundromat,’ it’s a different sort of spin cycle

Steven Soderbergh’s latest stars Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas.

Movie Review

Francis Ford Coppola offers a ‘Cotton Club Encore’

The director has added some scenes and deleted others from his 1984 film.

Movie Review

In ‘Lucy in the Sky,’ an astronaut touches down in Crazytown

Natalie Portman stars in this based-on-fact psychological drama

Jeneé Osterheldt

Spoiler alert, Martin Scorsese: People connect with Marvel movies

Scorsese says Marvel doesn’t make cinema. But who made him the police of what counts as film? The box-office doesn’t lie.

Ty Burr

John Waters will be making things ‘Filthy’ in Salem

Oct. 9, the film director and author will be appearing at the Salem Horror Fest.

Movie Review

‘Joker’: The dark villain rises

Joaquin Phoenix gives a remarkable performance as the title character in this supervillain origin story.

Scene Here | Local films, festivals, and faces

Scene Here: Granite State screenings, orchestral efforts, (Lonely) Seal of approval

Local doings on the film front.


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