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Groucho Marx in "Duck Soup."

From fan favorites to deep cuts, films with Dad make for lasting memories

Going to the movies with dad is a lasting memory for many people, providing a window into the world and a window into a man. And there is definitely a Dad Movie Hall of Fame.

In ‘The Sparks Brothers,’ meet the best British band ever to come out of America

From Edgar Wright (“Sean of the Dead,” “Baby Driver”), a terrifically entertaining rock-doc about Sparks, the band founded in 1967 by oddball brothers Ron and Russell Mael and somehow going strong today.

Hollywood past, Hanover present

Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art has acquired the Kobal Foundation Collection of classic studio photographs.

Going nautical at the Nantucket Film Festival

Spotlighting "The Jump" and "Playing with Sharks," two of several festival films with nautical topics.

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A scene from "Nasrin."
Doc Talk: Iranian injustice; dreams of Ghana; Tulsa recalled; a constitutional right recognized
Spotlighting "Nasrin," “A Fish Tale,” "Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer," and "A Crime on the Bayou."

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Alberto (left), voiced by Jack Dylan Grazer, and Luca, voiced by Jacob Tremblay, in "Luca."
In Pixar’s ‘Luca,’ it’s sea monsters without the inc.
The mid-1950s Italian vibe – of Vespa scooters and Cinzano posters and Mastroianni movies – is lovingly rendered but the plot is cluttered and the moral lessons shopworn.

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Kevin Hart and Melody Hurd, right, in "Fatherhood."

In ‘Fatherhood,’ on Netflix, being a single dad is hard — especially when the single dad is Kevin Hart

Matt Logelin’s 2011 memoir about raising his daughter after his wife’s sudden death has become a broad, heartfelt drama starring Hart as the dad and Alfre Woodard as his mother-in-law.

Willem Dafoe in "Siberia."

In this ‘Siberia,’ a different kind of exile

Cult director Abel Ferrara plunges deep into his own aging psyche with an aggressively surreal drama that sends Willem Dafoe across the tundra, into caves, and through the desert chasing phantoms from his past.

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William Bulger shown at James "Whitey" Bulger's casket, in "My Name Is Bulger."

‘My Name Is Bulger’: A tale of two brothers

The Discovery+ film offers an unusually intimate view of Whitey and Bill Bulger.

Brookline's Coolidge Corner Theatre.

Coolidge Corner Theatre unveils plans for major expansion

Brookline officials are reviewing a proposed expansion of the landmark Art Deco cinema that will add two screens — and over 200 seats — as well as a larger lobby, third-floor community space, and roof deck.

Now this is a unibrow.

Have a unibrow? Boston Casting wants you.

A casting call from the agency, whose recent films include “Knives Out,” “Coda,” and “I Feel Pretty,” requests that unibrowed men over the age of 30 apply for an upcoming (but unnamed) movie musical.

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The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge.

The Brattle to reopen at last on July 2

Donors contributed more than half a million dollars, helping the nonprofit theater to survive the pandemic.

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From left: Samuel L. Jackson, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, and Ryan Reynolds in "The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard."

‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’: It isn’t necessarily the character who needs protecting

Star power can do only so much. How can a movie with so much action feel so tired?

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Ellen Burstyn in "Queen Bees."

What if ‘Mean Girls’ went to a rest home? That’s ‘Queen Bees’

This genial, predictable comedy rolls on well-worn tracks elevated by the class and commitment of actors who’ve earned our affection over decades of work.