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Freeze Frame: “Top Gun: Maverick” (PG-13), “The Bob’s Burgers Movie” (PG-13), “Montana Story” (R), “The Dreams of Rene Sendam” (Not rated)

It's been 36 years since Tom Cruise first scrambled his jets in the action blockbuster "Top Gun." The long-gestating sequel "Top Gun: Maverick" has finally arrived and, happily, these Navy pilots nearly reach mach 10. But, as Maverick says, "You don't have time to think up there. You think, you're dead."...

Freeze Frame: “Downton Abbey: A New Era” (PG), “Senior Year” (R)

The second "Downton Abbey" feature film, “Downton Abbey: A New Era,” provides fans with just what they expect from their favorite British period soap opera; High-toned escapism. Multiple plot threads unfold as the dowager countess, played with her patented aristocratic spunk by Dame Maggie Smith, discovers that she has inherited a...

Freeze Frame: “On the Count of Three” (R), “Operation Mincemeat” (PG-13), “Happening” (R)

Is it possible to find comfort in mutual desperation? The extremely edgy comic drama "On the Count of Three" dares to explore that thorny question in a story about two friends who make a mutual suicide pact. Jerrod Carmichael and Christopher Abbott are excellent, full stop, as lifelong friends who...

Freeze Frame: “Memory” (R), “The Survivor” (R), “Polar Bear” (PG)

Remember Charles Bronson, the actor who in the 1970s and 80s, made a slew of bloody revenge dramas during his golden years? The career of Liam Neeson has taken a similar trajectory. The latest example is "Memory," the story of an aging hit man who gains a conscience but loses his...