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Lorene Scafaria‘s “Hustlers” rides and dies by the morally dubious motto above. The set-up concocted by Scafaria is actually artfully intimate at first, setting up the main strippers of the film, played by Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart, Lizzo and Cardi B. They are all working-class women, barely making ends meet, getting their dough by dancing and grinding on me clients nightly at a top-tier Manhattan strip club packed with Wall Street “assholes....

Wright, who also wrote the screenplay, stars as Edee, a grieving woman who moves to the mountains “to get away from people.” She’s still haunted by the tragic deaths of her husband and child and believes that leaving the city life behind will help her healing process. Renting out a deserted cabin in the lonesome Wyoming mountains, she quickly learns that surviving in such conditions, without phone, internet and electricity, is not a walk in the park....

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Regal Cinemas has revealed that the latest James Bond movie, “No Time To Die,” will be clocking in at 163 minutes in length, making it the lengthiest Bond in the franchise’s near 50-year history. However, it does seem as though recent Bonds have been growing in length. The last two movies were the longest of the franchise — “Skyfall” was 144 minutes and “Spectre,” clocked in at 148 minutes. However, the psychological barrier of exceeding the 150-minute length at the movies is real, the longer your film is the harder it’ll be to convince people to buy a ticket....

Cage’s Robin Feld has been living in a cabin in the woods of Oregon with his truffle pig for more than a decade. The only person he interacts with is slick millennial businessman Amir (Alex Wolff), who drives up to the woodsy area every week to pickup the truffles Robin and his fungi-sniffing porcine gathered up. The tradeoff has Amir giving Robin food and utilities to survive in return for the precious truffles....

One of them was “Thor: Ragnarok,” which was a very silly and amusing romp from director Taika Waititi. Maybe as close to an “auteur” movie as the MCU has ever gotten (though I will defend Shane Black’s “Iron Man 3” to the death). ‘Ragnarok’ was a vast improvement upon the first two Thor installments, much of it thanks to Waititi who brought a good dosage of his usual wacky meta-humor....

In “Rebuilding Paradise,” Howard gives us a documentary tackling a small California town and its response to a devastating natural disaster. After getting hit by one of the worst wildfires in history, the town of Paradise, California was reduced to ash and rubble. With its residents unsure of the future, there were no homes, schools, hospitals, or even clean water left, the community decides to rise up and try to rebuild what they lost....

“Respect” is a mildly okay Aretha Franklin biopic, but with an excellent lead performance from Hudson, and her singing is quite something here. She does the “Queen of Soul” proud. The word “conventional” comes to mind when thinking of this biopic, it goes along just fine, but you’re never really lifted up in the same way a great Aretha songs would spiritually heal. Its mediocre 63% Metacritic rating seems about right....

In all, it’s made around $90 million worldwide. The budget is said to be in the vicinity of $17 million. These are immensely satisfying numbers for Paramount. Let’s just hope that it doesn’t get the “Paranormal Activity” treatment and get six more sequels. I didn’t review “Smile,” but it’s a fairly tight and mildly engrossing horror jam. It uses familiar tropes in its storytelling, but some of the jump scares are absolutely frightening....

Some critics are waking up to Spencer’s mediocrity. It was inevitably going to happen. It went from an 88 on Metacritic during fall festival season to now a 77. Of course, K-Stew stands a good chance of winning the Oscar (the narrative is too irresistible for Academy voters), but “Spencer” is no “Jackie” — the latter was at least infused with frightening real-world dynamics that felt closer to the truth....

That is until this year when he started production on “TÁR,” his first film in over 16 years. Cate Blanchett stars in a drama that Field wrote and directed. Today’s released “teaser,” frankly, doesn’t give us much to chew on. There’s mostly Blanchett in slo-mo exhaling what seems to be cigarette smoke. Then she leads an orchestra for a few seconds. It’ll probably be a good film. The Playlist’s usually-reliable Gregory Ellwood was saying a few months back that buzz for the film was “reaching operatic levels....

Möller’s film kept the viewer on the edge of their seat for the entirety of its 85 claustrophobic minutes, and made you forget that its concept involved nothing more than a dispatcher (Jakob Cedergrem) trying to solve a mystery by phone. In Fuqua’s remake, Cedergrem is replaced by Jake Gyllenhaal who does an excellent job in the role of a demoted police officer now doing desk work as an emergency dispatcher....

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In this fourth chapter, our gang embark on a new adventure with new toy Forky — this Spork was created from scratch by Bonnie and has become her go-to-plaything. Problem is Forky doesn’t want to be a toy, he says he belongs in the trash, like all the other used sporks. Regardless, his runaway nature has Woody scrambling to keep him intact because Bonnie will throw a hissy fit if he goes missing....

Eastwood has proven time and time again how he’s still a major attraction for moviegoers. “Richard Jewell,” “The Mule,” “Sully” and “American Sniper,” were all released within the last six years, with a considerable amount of tickets sold. It also helped that the films themselves were fantastic, straight-shooting dramas that could only be made by an old-school veteran of the craft such as Eastwood. Now, much like every movie year, there is news that Le Clint, as they call him, is already set to release this fifth film in six years He is set to direct and star in “Cry Macho,” for Warner Bros....

It seems as though AMC borrowed way too much money for their own good, and spent a good deal of it buying up other movie chains. They were having losses when revenues were flooding in. Now that revenues dropped completely due to the pandemic, interest must be killing them. They probably face major bankruptcy at this point, and individual theaters sold off to their competition, if theaters don’t fully reopen soon....

It’s very rare that you get a lineup like the one we got during the 70th edition of the prestigious festival: “Toni Erdmann,” “Elle”, “The Handmaiden”, “Paterson”, “Hell or High Water”, “Aquarius”, “Personal Shopper”, “The Salesman”, “Loving”, “Graduation”, “American Honey”, and “Julieta” … And yet, what won the Palme d’Or that year? Ken Loach’s “I, Daniel Blake.” It was honestly one of the worst juries assembled in quite some time....

Meanwhile, Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” starring Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington, has been screened for Cannes boss Thierry Fremaux. Whether it actually makes it to Cannes is a whole other story since Apple TV, who recently bought the rights to the film, may want to wait it out for the fall festivals. Ive updated our chart of the most likely films to make it to Cannes official competition this coming July....

This highly disturbing rumor comes to us from One Take News and Cinelinx who claim that the “Eternals” director is “locked-in” to helm Feige’s forthcoming Star Wars project. The media outlet says they vetted the source and it is accurate. An announcement could be made imminently. Zhao had expressed interest in directing a Star Wars feature in the past. “I would, I’ll do anything Kevin asked me to do,” Zhao told The Playlist back in October....