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‘Jungle Cruise’ invites you to turn off your mind, relax and float downstream

Jungle Cruise – the theme park ride, not the new Disney movie it has inspired – is notable for the groan-worthy humor of its “skippers,” the tour guides who provide Borscht-Belt-style entertainment for passengers on the minutes-long trip down a lazy (fake) river lined with animatronic animals. The shtick is bad, and leans on wordplay […]

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A true story of gay bullying turns preachy in the Mark Wahlberg movie ‘Joe Bell’

Based on a true story about the bullying of a gay teenager and its tragic consequences, the drama “Joe Bell” has a message to deliver. That message, which is good and necessary – urgent even – isn’t simply the point of this well-meaning movie. It’s the whole plot, which follows the teenager’s father, played by […]