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He’s part of a new generation poised to take over, along with Corrado “Junior” (Corey Stoll) and Johnny Soprano (Jon Bernthal). They clash with Harold McBrayer (Leslie Odom Jr.), a black gangster who works for Dickie but has his own grander aspirations.

spoiled us in June when director Jon M. Chu managed to improve upon Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway show.

when he cast Kristen Stewart in a role as weighty and revered as Princess Diana.The Chilean’s game of royal roulette has paid off. Because Stewart, who we’ve always known is scores better than the average-to-wretched scripts she’s so frequently handed — “Twilight,” “Snow White and the Huntsman,” “Charlie’s Angels” — is haunting, playful and blisteringly human as Di at the end of her rope. Her princess is a broken woman so alive with promise and love and humor, but held back by mummified royals

according to Variety.Matthew López, a Tony nominee for his play “The Inheritance,” which opened on Broadway in 2019, is working on a remake of the classic film for Warner Bros.Lawrence Kasdan of Kasdan Pictures, who was the writer-producer of the original film, and Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich of Rideback are producing the new film. Rideback’s Nick Reynolds will executive produce.“The Bodyguard,” which also starred Kevin Costner, 66, was an instant hit when it debuted almost 30 years ago.

TORONTO — Another title for the movie “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” could be “Behind the Mascara.”Throughout the enlightening biopic about husband-and-wife televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, which premiered Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival, Tammy Faye’s makeup gets thicker and thicker as the years go by.After a while the coverup, rouge and mile-long eyelashes are no longer beauty enhancements, but a protective shield against the reality of her crumbling life.The garish

Toronto International Film Festival, is the titular bird.So, it’s only appropriate that I let another winged creature review the film for me.Quoth the raven: “Nevermore!”“The Starling” joins Melissa McCarthy’s dud pile, which is Mount Everest next to her modest mound of critical hits. It never stops being upsetting to watch such a formidably talented actress — a genius in “Bridesmaids” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” — make so many awful movies.

Toronto International Film Festival, is also the best high-camp scary flick since “Black Swan.” The demure ingénue, Ellie (Thomasin McKenzie), actually has a lot in common with the whack-job ballerina that won Natalie Portman her first Oscar back in 2011.

Not Guilty,” but we’ll go along with it.Tonight, though, he’s being bombarded by calls because wildfires have spread to LA and the city is covered in smoke and ash. Joe barks impatiently at most of the callers, until he gets one from a quivering woman in a car he surmises has been abducted. While he emotionally attempts to locate her, he rings her house and discovers her young daughter and son have been abandoned.

Amazon got into the softcore porn biz. The digital giant already lets us order a toilet plunger while watching prestige TV.

Sept. 24, in theatersWhat a year for movie-musicals.

“Dear Evan Hansen” at the Toronto International Film Festival Thursday night, a nagging question kept coming up: Should this thing still be a musical?Mostly, yes.The plot — controversial for many — has always been brilliant. Because of a miscommunication, the parents of a young student who killed himself are led to believe that Evan (Ben Platt), a high-school misfit, was his best and only friend.

“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” make sure you don’t leave the cinema too soon when those credits roll.Fans couldn’t wait to watch “Shang-Chi” and now they are being given even more for their money.Marvel loves a good teaser and this latest movie is no different.Film fans are treated to TWO scenes after the crowd-pleasing “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” — which racked up nearly $140 million at the global box office over Labor Day weekend — rolls the end credits.There is a

Black Panther,” is based on a comic book most moviegoers barely knew anything about when they first walked into the theater. Didn’t matter.

Netflix, he evolves from a cold and methodical arithmetic wonk to a compassionate listener who’s willing to change.But the writing in Max Borenstein’s script continuously eschews subtlety for static melodrama.

Lil Rel Howery and Yvonne Orji play Marcus and Emily, the strait-laced pair, who are on vacation at a luxury resort in Mexico. Marcus is about to pop the question in their suite, when he opens the door to find the room drenched in water from the overflowing hot tub of their upstairs neighbors.To make amends, Ron (John Cena) and Kyla (Meredith Hagner), the loony lovebirds, invite them over for cocktails.

Who can take a sunrise and sprinkle it with … dread?All seems well in the initial moments of “Candyman,” the modern-day remake of the 1992 horror classic, which opens with the sweet sounds of Sammy Davis Jr.’s classic “The Candy Man.”But then the song — and the film itself — slowly becomes a spooky nightmare. “We love doing stuff like that,” producer and “Candyman” co-writer Win Rosenfeld told The Post. Twisting an otherwise innocent pop song has become a signature of his production company,

highly enjoyable sequel, co-written by the brilliant Jordan Peele of “Get Out,” Win Rosenfeld and Nia DaCosta. The film, which is in theaters Friday, is a million times better than the two godawful ’90s follow-ups, has a crystal clear political take and tackles gentrification, cops and more.

Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard.” Still, the actor should try another fictional profession on for size. Preferably in a movie that’s not a garbled mess.“The Protégé” starts out well enough.

HBO Max — is a burdensome slog.Running time: 114 minutes. Rated PG-13 (strong violence, drug material throughout, sexual content and some strong language).

AppleTV+ has gone for more meat-and-potatoes fare, including the feel-good TV show “Ted Lasso” and the soulful new dramedy “CODA” that they snagged for $25 million at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

Jersey Boys.”There are the early scenes of little “Re” wailing gospel music in church in 1952, just like those of “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical” on Broadway.There’s the lightbulb moment in which the soon-to-be Queen of Soul discovers the hook to the hit 1967 song “Respect” while improvising around a piano with her sisters.

has released three movies in the past twelve months, and finished another season of “His Dark Materials” for HBO. Recently he said he’s working on a new Broadway musical.

engrossing drama “Stillwater.” Bill’s life, however, is hardly ho-hum. An Oklahoma oil rig worker, he isn’t traveling in the seaside city to take in the sights and nosh on foie gras terrine; his college-aged daughter, Allison (Abigail Breslin), has been imprisoned for a year in Marseille for the murder of her roommate she claims she didn’t commit.

Dev Patel), one of the Knights of the Round Table, is a quest in the most pastoral sense. And damn is director David Lowery’s forrest-filled movie beautiful to look at.This telling of the tale sees the young Gawain desperate to become one of King Arthur’s brave soldiers. In a bold move, although we meet Arthur, Queen Guinevere and Morgan le Fay, their names are never uttered.

“Crazy Rich Asians” charmer is so stiff in his first go-round as an action hero, at no point do you care if Snake Eyes lives or dies. That is a big problem for a film in which the only stakes are life and death. To cut him some slack, though, Golding signed onto awful material that shouldn’t exist in the first place.Running time: 121 minutes.

Shyamalan’s films over the past several years have suffered from convoluted plotting, self-importance and overall tedium. Even some of his most digestible work, like the TV show “Wayward Pines,” peaked fast and then quickly trailed off.But breaking the pattern, “Old” is pleasantly straightforward and has a tough-to-pin-down quality that has been missing from the “Sixth Sense” director’s recent work — confidence.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” and “Little Fockers.” The original 1996 “Space Jam” wasn’t top-drawer either, but it made a buck at the box office. So, money-grubbing Warner Bros.

Black Widow” instead. Run for your lives — and sanity!That’s because it’s the rare horror franchise that satisfies zero criteria of what we want from a freaky movie.

George Clooney before him — whose real-life hog apparently came between him and his former girlfriends — Nicolas Cage really, really loves his pig. In the movie “Pig,” the 57-year-old actor whose career has taken a turn for the weird, plays a shaggy, grizzled truffle farmer named Rob in the Pacific Northwest who has a deep affection for his prized swine.But don’t worry.

Running time: 105 minutes. Rated R (strong bloody violence, drug content, language and some sexual content.) On Netflix.For a horror writer most associated with middle schoolers, R.L.

We did it. We have survived the Purge!The horror-movie series about a dystopian America in which it’s legal to kill anybody you want for one night a year supposedly comes to an end with the fifth entry, “The Forever Purge.” I hope that’s true, but don’t be shocked if we get “The Purge VI: The Purge Awakens” in a couple of years.Running time: 103 minutes.

time travel! — could not figure out for themselves. Audiences are cognizant of such loose threads because other movies have been telling this story better for years.“The Tomorrow War,” in trying to become the new “Independence Day” (this release date is not arbitrary), throws “Alien,” “The Terminator” and “A Quiet Place” in a blender.

Knives Out” of the horror genre, with a wacky ensemble having a blast while they play enormous characters and follow clues. They do, and their antics are enjoyable for the most part.

Running time: 145 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sequences of violence and action, and language.) In theaters.“We’re all stuck driving in the same s–tty circle,” says Michelle Rodriguez’s character Letty in “F9: The Fast Saga.” “And we’re never getting out.”Besides expressing Letty’s vague existential crisis, Rodriguez is also speaking for us cranky critics who wonder just how many more atrocious “Fast & Furious” movies we will be forced to endure.

Salma Hayek crack about her own breasts?” has arrived in the form of a movie called “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard.” Somebody else will have to add them up, though. There are so many, and I’m no mathematician.And yet, somehow Hayek and the low-brow material she’s been regrettably handed are the best part of this unwanted, unnecessary sequel to the also-bad 2017 buddy cop film “The Hitman’s Bodyguard.” Her returning co-stars Samuel L.