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Teyonah Parris, KiKi Layne and Regina King star in If Beale Street Could Talk, adapted from James Baldwin's 1974 novel.

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'Beale Street' Is A Heart-Stopping, Beautiful Story Of Love And Injustice

12:18pm December 14, 2018

by Justin Chang

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins returns with a new drama about young lovers in 1970s Harlem whose lives are thrown into turmoil when one of them is falsely accused of a crime.

Movie Review: 'The Mule' Has A Personal Feel To It, Says 'LA Times' Film Critic

7:09am December 14, 2018

NPR's David Greene talks to Los Angeles Times film critic Ken Turan about the new movie The Mule, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.

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Shining Like Moonlight: Tish (KiKi Layne) and Fonny (Stephan James) share a fleeting moment in Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk.

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In The Luminous 'If Beale Street Could Talk,' A Perfect Love Meets An Imperfect World

5:01pm December 13, 2018

by Monica Castillo

Director Barry Jenkins follows up Moonlight with this exquisite film adaptation of James Baldwin's novel about the clash between love and racial injustice.

Hester (Hera Hilmar) and Tom (Robert Sheehan) conspire to throw a monkey wrench into the works in Mortal Engines.

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'Mortal Engines' Internally Combusts

5:01pm December 13, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

Long on CGI but short on any real inspiration, this adaptation of a fantasy series about giant cities that roam a post-apocalyptic landscape quickly runs out of gas.

Listen, bud: Peter Parker (voiced by Jake Johnson) and Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) swing into action in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

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Well-Versed: 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse' Is A Gorgeous, Fun, Warm-Hearted Treat

5:01pm December 13, 2018

by Chris Klimek

Many Spider-Men and -Women meet up in this "graphically dazzling, generously imaginative, nakedly optimistic, mercilessly funny" and refreshingly inclusive animated film.

The house has good bones: Jack (Matt Dillon) rationalizes his deadly vocation in Lars von Trier's The House That Jack Built.

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In Grisly, Sadistic 'The House That Jack Built,' Lars von Trier Deconstructs Himself

5:00pm December 13, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

This uber-violent film about a remorseless serial killer (Matt Dillon) requires an iron stomach, but it's a "thoughtful, honest onscreen meditation on morality and personal culpability."

Chair Of The Motion Picture Association Of America Retires After Nearly 2 Decades

4:22pm December 13, 2018

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Joan Graves, rating chair of the Motion Picture Association of America, as she prepares to retire after nearly two decades of thinking of movies in terms of their ratings.

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'Roma' hailed as Cuarón's Masterpiece, Despite Distribution, Production Battle

4:22pm December 13, 2018

by Jasmine Garsd

Netflix released Roma in select theaters, before offering it online. It's being called Alfonso Cuarón's masterpiece, and garnering Oscar buzz, after a distribution and production battle.

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In 'If Beale Street Could Talk,' Characters Struggle Against Injustice And Find Hope Through Love

4:22pm December 13, 2018

by Bob Mondello

Director Barry Jenkins' follow-up to his Oscar-winner, Moonlight, is a swoony adaptation of the James Baldwin novel, If Beale Street Could Talk.

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Richard E. Grant plays Jack Hock, the sidekick to literary forger Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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Richard E. Grant Barely Survived Childhood. Now He's Thriving As An Actor

2:32pm December 13, 2018

by Terry Gross

The self-described "lifelong character actor" plays an alcoholic sidekick in the film Can You Ever Forgive Me? Through Grant is allergic to alcohol, he grew up in Swaziland with an alcoholic father.

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