Movies

Netflix Movie 'El Camino' Is Carefully Constructed Epilogue For 'Breaking Bad'

5:26am October 14, 2019

by Eric Deggans

Netflix's El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie answers a question that wasn't answered by the TV show's 2013 finale: What happened to Walter White's meth-dealing assistant, Jesse Pinkman?

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Documentary: 'Where's My Roy Cohn?'

5:43pm October 13, 2019

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with director Matt Tyrnauer about his documentary Where's My Roy Cohn?.

Adam DeVine stars as a technology-dependent man whose life gets derailed by a new feature on his phone: an AI assistant Jexi, voiced by Rose Byrne.

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'Jexi' Is Siri-Ously Bad

1:26pm October 12, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

Adam DeVine plays a lonely nerd whose phone takes over his life in this lazy, generic satire.

Aaron Paul plays Jesse Pinkman in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.

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'El Camino' Gives Jesse Pinkman Life Beyond 'Breaking Bad'

1:59pm October 11, 2019

by Linda Holmes

The new Netflix movie starring Aaron Paul as a desperate Jesse, on the run immediately after the events of the Breaking Bad finale, explores the trauma that his association with Walter White created.

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6 Years Later, 'El Camino' Proves Just As Exciting And Original As 'Breaking Bad'

1:38pm October 11, 2019

by David Bianculli

The Netflix film picks up right where Breaking Bad left off, with Jesse (Aaron Paul) speeding off after escaping from his captors. From there, El Camino is a wild and spellbinding ride.

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The iconic Addam's family returns in the animated film featuring Charlize Theron as Morticia Addams (left) and Oscar Isaac as Gomez Addams (right).

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'The Addams Family' Isn't Sufficiently Creepy, Kooky, Mysterious Or Spooky

6:26pm October 10, 2019

by Danny Hensel

The new animated iteration of Charles Addams' family of monstrous oddballs gets mired in the flatness of CGI.

Eric Notarnicola's mockumentary Mister America follows Tim Heidecker attempts to win over San Bernadino voters despite limited funding and a murder allegation.

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Boor Fest: All Politics Is Local, And Lowly, In Satire 'Mister America'

5:00pm October 10, 2019

by Scott Tobias

You don't have to be familiar with Tim Heidecker's character in his cult series On Cinema to enjoy the film — but it's filled with in-jokes that reward the hardcore fan.

Iiiiiiiiin a wet Erlenmeyer flask, born and raised: Will Smith and digitally de-aged Will Smith star in Ang Lee's clone filled-thriller Gemini Man.

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Clone Gunman: Will Smith Vs. Will Smith In Sluggish, Sterile 'Gemini Man'

5:00pm October 10, 2019

by Mark Jenkins

Ang Lee directs Smith (and a digitally de-aged Smith) in this "bland, sluggish and sentimental" thriller.

Sun Kyun-lee and Cho Yeo-jeong play Mr. and Mrs. Park, a wealthy couple whose hired help isn't quite what it seems, in Bong Joon-ho's thriller Parasite.

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'Parasite' Hooks You With Its Emotional Power And Extraordinary Cunning

3:05pm October 10, 2019

by Justin Chang

Bong Joon-ho's brilliant new movie is a darkly comic thriller about the intersection of two South Korean families: one very rich, the other very poor.

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Movie Review: 'Pain And Glory'

5:22pm October 06, 2019

by Bob Mondello

The new movie Pain And Glory, about a film director whose career is in decline, was made by Pedro Almodovar, whose career definitely isn't.