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'Call Me Lucky': A Documentary Of Friendship, Childhood Abuse And Survival

2:05pm July 27, 2015

Barry Crimmins mentored Bobcat Goldthwait when they were up-and-coming comics in the '80s. A film directed by Goldthwait details their relationship — and the sexual abuse Crimmins suffered as a child.

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Getting The Ants In 'Ant-Man' Right Was No Tiny Challenge

5:48pm July 26, 2015

by Neda Ulaby

In Marvel's latest superhero movie, filmmakers had to portray the insects as realistic yet relatable. Two myrmecologists, or ant scientists, weigh in on whether the attempt was successful.

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Desperate To Speak: How Emily Blunt Found Her Voice

9:58pm July 25, 2015

by Daniel Hajek

The actress stars in the new film Into the Woods, in theaters Thursday. On screen she's a natural. But as a kid, she had a stutter so severe she could hardly say her own name.

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Skyler Gisondo (from left), Steele Stebbins, Christina Applegate and Ed Helms are the new Griswold family — en route to Walley World — in the 2015 follow-up to the 1983 movie Vacation.

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Back To Walley World: The Griswolds Go On 'Vacation' Again

5:28pm July 25, 2015

by NPR Staff

The movie's co-director says the goal wasn't to remake the National Lampoon film, but rather "to bring it to the next generation." Rusty, the son from the '80s classic, is now in the driver's seat.

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'A Gay Girl' Who Was Not What She Seemed

1:53am July 25, 2015

by Mark Jenkins

A new documentary looks at a blog ostensibly written by a Syrian woman that turned out to have an entirely different origin story.

Nat Wolff and Margo Cara Delevingne in Paper Towns.

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Emotional Maps And 'Paper Towns'

2:37pm July 24, 2015

by Andrew Lapin

The film adaptation of YA superstar John Green's novel is an uneven but intermittently affecting story about a disappearing girl and the boy who looks for her.

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A Holocaust Survivor Searches For Her Past In Christian Petzold's 'Phoenix'

1:21pm July 24, 2015

by David Edelstein

A concentration camp survivor seeks a reunion with the husband who may have betrayed her in a new film set in post-war Berlin. Critic David Edelstein calls Phoenix a "morbidly romantic drama."

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Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in Trainwreck.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Trainwreck' And 'Ant-Man'

9:42am July 24, 2015

by Linda Holmes

This week brings two summer movies into our field of vision: an unconventional romantic comedy and a shrunken (in the good way) superhero adventure.

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'Southpaw' Throws Some Familiar Punches

7:56am July 24, 2015

by Kenneth Turan

The Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic, Kenneth Turan, reviews "Southpaw," a new movie about a boxing champion starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Antoine Fuqua.

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Rachel McAdams as Maureen Hope and Jake Gyllenhaal as Billy Hope in Southpaw.

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'Southpaw' Makes A Bruised Bruiser Out Of Jake Gyllenhaal

6:08pm July 23, 2015

by Chris Klimek

In the story of a struggling boxer, Gyllenhaal undergoes a physical transformation that's more and more common for actors in a superhero-driven world.