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Ghost stories: ‘Haunted Mansion’ and ‘Talk to Me’ use horror to explore real-world pain
Both movies involve grieving Black folk who see dead people
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Orlando Weekly Movies highlights local film festivals, independent screenings, reviews, and movie news from Central Florida’s film scene.
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New on Netflix: ‘Zombieverse’ tasks a bunch of South Korean celebrities with surviving the walking dead
Plus everything else debuting this week on Prime Video, Hulu, Max, Apple TV+, Disney+ and the rest
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Elizabeth Banks and Zach Galifianakis star in ‘The Beanie Bubble,’ premiering Friday on Apple TV+
Comedy explores how our society distinguishes between the precious and the disposable
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‘Oppenheimer’ does something all too rare in Hollywood: It trusts its audience
The film neither heroicizes nor sanctifies the man
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Movie review: ‘Barbie’ is existential brilliance — and also a lot of fun
Come on Barbie, let’s go party (talk about consumerism and conservative gender roles)
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New on Netflix: ‘They Cloned Tyrone’ reclaims Blaxploitation for the sci-fi era
Plus all the streaming premieres this week on Hulu, Prime Video, Max, Shudder, Apple TV+ and the rest
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The Orlando International Film Festival takes over UCF Downtown
The annual fest welcomes film enthusiasts, industry professionals and talented filmmakers from around the world
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New on Netflix: ‘Bird Box Barcelona’ explores Spain in the wake of global devastation, blindfolded
Plus everything else premiering on Hulu, Prime Video, Disney+, Shudder, Apple TV+ and the rest
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A first-rate Tom Cruise battles an AI villain in the excellent new ‘Mission: Impossible’
‘Dead Reckoning Part One’ takes itself seriously, but still knows all the cloak-and-dagger fantasy is a bit silly
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Amazon Prime Video premieres a tale of weed, empanadas and cannibalism with ‘The Horror of Dolores Roach’
Plus everything new this week on Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV+, Disney+, Max and the rest
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Review: Harrison Ford is somehow still fighting Nazis in ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’
For a movie that’s about leaving the past alone, it sure wants to revisit the glory days
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New on Netflix, ‘El Dorado: Everything the Nazis Hate’ extols a nightclub that was the epicenter of gay activity in 1920s Berlin
Plus everything else premiering on the streaming platforms this week
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Uncomfortable Brunch screens 1980s indie hit ‘The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover’
All this and breakfast fare too
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‘The Bear’ returns on Hulu this week and Carmy undertakes an extreme makeover
What’s new on Netflix, Max, Prime Video, Apple TV+ and the rest
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In ‘Asteroid City,’ Wes Anderson stages an alien invasion as only Wes Anderson can
‘Rushmore’ meets Roswell
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New on Netflix: ‘Black Mirror’ returns for more reality-twisting hijinks
Plus everything else debuting on the streaming platforms this week
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‘The Flash’ works hard to make us forget Ezra Miller’s bad behavior
This DC Extended Universe movie is a smart-ass blur
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New on Netflix: The fourth and final season for Mindy Kaling’s ‘Never Have I Ever’
Plus everything else debuting on streaming this week
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New on Netflix: ‘The Days,’ a dramatic retelling of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, premieres Thursday
Plus everything else new on the streaming platforms this week
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Enzian Theater’s Freaky Fridays excavates a forgotten slice of Floridian queer horror
This week yields the results of their latest celluloid dig, the 1971 cult oddity ‘Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things’
