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Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling bring iconic toys to life in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie.”

Three damaged people become a reluctant family over the Christmas holiday at an exclusive boys prep school in Alexander Payne’s Oscar nominated film “The Holdovers.”

Two very different women become friends. But when one goes missing, the other begins a journey looking for her, and the truth, in “A Simple Favor.”

Diana Nyad had a seemingly charmed life: Gifted athlete, endurance swimmer, TV sports commentator, motivational speaker and winner of various awards. But one goal seemed out of reach…swimming from Cuba to Florida.

Two high school senior girls plot to lose their virginity to the cheerleaders they have crushes on by starting an after school fight club in the 2023 satirical teen comedy “Bottoms.”

Before she was married to Johnny Cash, she was part of country music royalty. But even if no one knew who June Carter Cash was, she was a queen. She’s the subject of the new documentary “June” available to stream on Paramount+.

A mild-mannered bank teller discovers there’s far more to his world, and another, than he ever suspected in”Free Guy,” starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Joe Keery and Taika Waititi.

After a married couple are separated by death, the surviving spouse leans on his best friends to deal with the loss in the Netflix original movie “Good Grief” starring Dan Levy, Ruth Negga, Himesh Patel and Luke Evans.

A couple of empty nesters plan on taking a cruise for Christmas but their friends and neighbors aren’t having it in “Christmas With the Kranks.”

The Jolly Old Fat Man is done delivering gifts and is just bringing the pain in 2005’s “Santa’s Slay” starring wrestler Bill Goldberg, Emilie de Ravin, Douglas Smith and Robert Culp.

Eddie Murphy is a husband and father determined to win a Christmas decorating contest but must battle an evil elf named Pepper in the Amazon Prime holiday comedy (?) “Candy Cane Lane.”

Jeff Bridges is an alcoholic country singer seemingly hellbent on destroying every opportunity to redeem himself in 2009’s “Crazy Heart.”

A small Texas town is slowly dying and taking all the citizens with it in Peter Bogdanovich’s black and white 1971 classic “The Last Picture Show.”

Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, John Savage and Meryl Streep lead a cast of greats in Michael Cimino’s Vietnam war epic “The Deer Hunter.”

Sixth-graders, a kissing party, a drone, Molly and raging hormones lead to a day of misadventures in the raunchy comedy “Good Boys.”

Bullying the wrong person leads to a deadly prom in “Carrie,” based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.

Danny Torrance has grown up running away from his gift of the Shining, but now must embrace it to save a young woman with a more powerful gift from a group of Shining vampires in “Doctor Sleep.”

A big lovable dog becomes a killing machine in “Cujo,” based on the novel by Stephen King.

Spooky Season continues with a Stephen King double feature: “Pet Sematary” and “Pet Sematary: Bloodlines.”

Christopher Walken and Brooke Adams play star-crossed lovers who are not meant to be, plus some psychic stuff, in “The Dead Zone,” based on Stephen King’s book of the same name.

Jane Fonda won her first Best Actress Oscar portraying a world-weary sex worker alongside Donald Sutherland’s experienced yet naive cop in 1971’s thriller “Klute.”

The 1962 film “The Manchurian Candidate” came out at the height of the Cold War and reflected America’s fear of communist attack and domination.

A hard drinking, morally ambiguous and tough-as-nails private detective takes on the case of his career in 1941’s “The Maltese Falcon” starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet.

Olivia Wilde produced, directed and co-starred in 2022’s “Don’t Worry Darling.” The film also stars Florence Pugh, Harry Styles and Chris Pine. It came out with controversy, much of it centered in misogyny, put is the movie any good?

A mother, grieving and angry, takes unusual steps to find her daughter’s killer in “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.”