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In joyless ‘The Batman,’ Robert Pattinson channels the vampire Edward Cullen

Robert Pattinson gets back to his vampire roots in “The Batman,” in which he plays the title character with the same moody, broody intensity he brought to his breakout role in “Twilight.” “I’m a nocturnal animal,” Pattinson’s joyless superhero announces in one of several voice-overs, delivered in a hoarse whisper worthy of Clint Eastwood’s Harry […]

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There are few bones to pick in this touching story about healing

Trailers for the movie “Dog” – co-directed by and starring Channing Tatum as a retired Army Ranger named Riggs who takes a former K-9 comrade to her handler’s funeral – make it look like a fun road trip. Lulu, a Belgian Malinois, is a difficult dog: She chews the car seats, grabs snacks at every […]

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Book review: ‘Mercy Street’ may be the last novel about abortion before Roe v. Wade is dismantled

Almost one in four American women will have an abortion during their lifetimes. Unless she’s a woman in a literary novel, in which case she’s highly unlikely to. Almost 50 years after Roe v. Wade affirmed a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy, fiction writers seem reluctant to mention the procedure. Even now, as theocrats […]