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‘Trolls Band Together’ a kids’ film even millennial parents can love

“Trolls Band Together” is a glitter-encrusted variety pack of a movie. Packed with millennial boy-band humor, sibling love and snippets of pop songs, the third film in the Trolls franchise is an explosion of color tailored to a new generation of parents and their Gen Alpha kids. An advance screening was attended by what appeared […]

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Hunger Games prequel sings an edgier tune in ‘Songbirds & Snakes’

For all of their young-adult sheen and PG-13 restraint, the Hunger Games movie adaptations tend to triumph when they avoid sanding off the source material’s sharper edges. As envisioned by novelist Suzanne Collins, the dystopian realm of Panem – where combatants between the ages of 12 and 18 engage in an annual fight to the […]

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‘Priscilla’ a dreamy but stultifying portrait of an American princess

There’s a scene in the middle of “Priscilla,” Sofia Coppola’s biopic of Priscilla Presley, which contains a surreal detail that had to have been at least one of Coppola’s sparks of inspiration. Priscilla (Cailee Spaeny), heavily pregnant, has gone into labor. As her husband, the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi) rushes […]