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Our critics' picks: What to watch, listen to and read at home this week

Andy Samberg, Andre Braugher and guest star Sterling K. Brown in “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” Fox

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Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert are sparring spouses in “The Palm Beach Story.”

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His brother in prison, Bob Weinstein starts a quiet comeback

He's trying to distance himself from brother Harvey's scandal.

Twin Cities film fest executive welcomes movies - and fans - from across the globe

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6 great movies to distract the kids while you take that conference call

When you're trying to work from home, and need a distraction for the kids, these movies can't miss.

Movie audiences are staying home

Seemingly every aspect of American life has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, and the weekend ritual of watching a movie in the dark with…

This week's movie openings

Movies opening Friday Blow the Man Down (R) Two women try to cover up a gruesome run-in with a dangerous man. The Burnt…

'The Whistlers' proves an airy crime drama complete with a hard-boiled cop and femme fatale

A hard-boiled cop tangles with a femme fatale and international gangsters in "The Whistlers."

'Wendy' offers lots of childhood play but little meaning

Playtime goes on and on and on in the reimagined, refocused "Peter Pan" tale "Wendy."

'Hope Gap' is a poor man's 'Marriage Story'

No actor portrays flinty, defiant intelligence better than Annette Bening. Self-possessed, often to an intense degree, her characters can, at times, seem intimidating — a…

'Bloodshot' makes for a bewildering piece of 'good-bad sci-fi action trash'

"Bloodshot" proves a supremely goofy Vin Diesel vehicle.

How the makers of 'Contagion' saw an outbreak like coronavirus coming

Nine years after its release, "Contagion" has become the movie du jour as the world grapples with a very real disease: COVID-19.

It's business as usual at the movies

North American audiences are not staying away from theaters amid virus concerns, according to the weekend's box office numbers. Disney and Pixar's "Onward" topped the…