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News of the World (PG-13) Paul Greengrass tries to be John Ford. It doesn’t work. The director of The Bourne Ultimatum adapts Paulette Jiles’ Western novel about a Civil War veteran (Tom Hanks) who makes a living as an itinerant newsreader in Texas who finds an orphaned German girl (Helena Zengel) whose Kiowa family has been slaughtered and resolves to take her from Wichita Falls to Castroville to her last remaining biological relatives. Greengrass knows how to stage a shootout when our protagonist has to defend the girl against a band of pedophiles in the open country, but little of interest comes from the journey taken by two people who don’t speak the other’s language. Without the heart of the story, this Western is as arid as the Texas air. Also with Elizabeth Marvel, Michael Angelo Covino, Ray McKinnon, Fred Hechinger, Thomas Francis Murphy, Bill Camp, and Mare Winningham. (Opens Friday)
Boxing Day movies through to New Year s Day: What s opening in Australian cinemas
ThuThursday 24
DecDecember 2020 at 7:22pm
Wonder Woman 1984 was meant to open early this year, but was pushed back due to COVID-19.
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Like everything else about 2020, this summer s film slate is hardly business as usual; we d normally be running a gauntlet of Oscar contenders and big blockbusters, but many of those releases have been delayed due to the ongoing pandemic.
Instead, we have a strange mash of big, small, middle-scale and idiosyncratic films to choose from for Boxing Day through to New Year s Day.
FILM CLIPS
Here s what s playing DEC. 26-JAN. 1 at area movie theaters and streaming on the virtual screens offered by non-profit, year-round, independent cinemas in the Berkshires and environs. Where films have been reviewed, the capsules include the name of film critic and the day the full review was posted on berkshireeagle.com. All reviews are by Associated Press critics.
76 DAYS
On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging COVID-19 outbreak. Set deep inside the frontlines of the crisis, this documentary tells indelible human stories at the center of this pandemic â from a woman begging in vain to bid a final farewell to her father, a grandpa with dementia searching for his way home, a couple anxious to meet their newborn, to a nurse determined to return personal items to families of the deceased. These raw and intimate stories bear witness to the death and rebirth of a city under a 76-day lockdown, and to the human resi
Six years after launching the first
Resident Evil movie, having passed off the franchise s next two sequels to other filmmakers, director Paul W.S. Anderson found a new videogame he would end up turning into another massive popcorn blockbuster. That was
Monster Hunter, a fantasy action-adventure title originated in Japan about a lone Hunter traveling across vast landscapes to take down gargantuan creatures, using their bones and carcasses to craft new indestructible weapons and armor. As of September of this year, the
Monster Hunter franchise has grown to stand beside
Resident Evil as one of Capcom s most lucrative gaming titles with 65 million units sold. It was one of Capcom s crown jewels, Anderson tells EW, so they required quite a lot of persuading to allow us to work on the movie.
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