Film News 2025-11-23

• ‘Wicked: For Good’ Needed Just Two Scenes to Feel Like It Had Any Stakes — or, Let the Goat Talk!
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• Miss the Golden Age of Weird Netflix? Try ‘Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein’
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• Some of the Trickiest Effects in ‘Predator: Badlands’ Have Nothing to Do with Beast Hunts
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• Don’t Be Fooled — ‘Wicked: For Good’ Starts and Ends in an Ariana Grande-Obsessed Dystopia
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• How ‘Rental Family’ Director Hikari Captured an ‘Epidemic of Loneliness’ with Color, Camera, and Connection
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• The Production Design of ‘Hedda’ Is a Marvel
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• How the ‘Andor’ Team Essentially Made Four Movies at Once for Season 2
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• Eddie Murphy to Receive AFI Life Achievement Award in 2026
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• ‘Wicked: For Good’ Had the Best Box Office Previews of the Year — but ‘Previews’ Don’t Mean What They Used to
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• Did Critics Burst the ‘Wicked: For Good’ Bubble? How Mixed Reviews Might Impact Its Oscar Fate
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• ‘The Family Plan 2’ Review: Apple TV’s Most Forgettably Algorithmic Action Movie Is Now Apple TV’s Most Forgettably Algorithmic Action Franchise
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• Will Arnett Thought He’d Never Land a Dramatic Role: ‘Why Would They?’
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