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Freeze Frame: “Women Talking” (PG-13), “The Son” (PG-13), “Alice, Darling” (R)

"Women Talking" is an award-winning film adapted from a 2018 novel by Miriam Toews. It’s loosely based on the true story of a group of Mennonite women who gather to discuss what to do when they become the victims of sexual attacks by the men of their colony. The solid...

Freeze Frame: “Plane” (R), “Dog Gone” (PG)

With movies like the action trilogy “Olympus Has Fallen,” “London Has Fallen and “Angel Has Fallen,” Scottish actor Gerard Butler is carving out a niche for himself as an action icon in the mold of Chuck Norris and Bruce Willis. His latest effort is “Plane,” but it could just as...

Freeze Frame: “A Man Called Otto” (PG-13), “The Pale Blue Eye” (R), “Corsage” (Not rated), “White Noise” (R)

Tom Hanks plays a judgmental curmudgeon facing bitter personal disappointment in the sentimental comic drama, "A Man Called Otto." Upon his forced retirement, a lonely widower must decide what to do with himself and faces an unfamiliar challenge when a family of Mexican immigrants move into the neighborhood. While it's utterly predictable,...

Freeze Frame: The Best Films of 2022

Time for my annual countdown of the best movies of the year. 10) Amazing aerial stunt work overcomes the absurd, testosterone-fueled script in the entertaining box office blockbuster, “Top Gun: Maverick.” 9) The deceptively low-key drama “Aftersun” is a complex and affecting drama about the vagaries of memory and the uncertainties of...