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'Godzilla Minus Zero' Roars With $31 Million
BOX OFFICE: Takashi Yamazaki's epic sequel climbed to the top of box office charts with $31.6 million, a roaring start for a foreign language epic.
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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’
An even grander follow-up to 'Godzilla Minus One.' The very human heroes of the first film return, as does Takashi Yamazaki's awesome ability to create monster action paintings in motion.
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‘The Cat in the Hat’
Bill Hader voices the Cat in the Hat in a cartoon so elaborately overstuffed it's like a Marvel movie for tots. It's a blockbuster mash-up that leaves the innocent wildness of Dr. Seuss in the dust.
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John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell are a perfect double act in Martin McDonagh's drolly melancholic '70s caper about two CIA agents, on holiday on Easter Island, who reckon with their present and past.
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‘Drummer Boy’
Love, family, and revolution conflict at musket's point in a pleasant if simplistic patriotic musical — a collaboration between Angel Studios and the Christian pop duo For King + Country.
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Guy Ritchie delivers a perfect origin story for Sherlock Holmes.
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The 'Yellowstone' spinoff turns the Taylor Sheridan franchise into a workman-like CBS procedural.
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Carrie Coon's gutting performance elevates this horror thriller.
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A furry, funny, fantastic musical comedy.
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