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Prime Video’s The Love Hypothesis keeps most of the characters essential to Olive Smith and Adam Carlsen’s fake-dating romance, but readers of Ali Hazelwood’s novel will immediately notice one important absence. Holden Rodriguez, one of Adam’s closest friends and a significant supporting character in the book, does not appear in the movie at all. The…
Yes, Pete Willis dies in The Whisper Man. Robert De Niro’s retired detective is fatally wounded during the final confrontation surrounding Jake Kennedy’s kidnapping, turning the climax into both a rescue mission and the conclusion of Pete’s troubled relationship with his son Tom. Pete’s death carries considerably more meaning than simply removing one of the…
The Uprising surrounds Andrew Garfield’s Ploughman with several people who really belonged to the political upheaval of 1381. Wat Tyler, John Ball and the young King Richard II all come from the historical record, which makes it easy to assume the movie’s central character must also have a direct real-life counterpart. That is not the…
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle I begins the anime’s final conflict with the Demon Slayer Corps scattered across Muzan Kibutsuji’s stronghold. The film focuses on three major confrontations with years of personal history behind them, which also means the first chapter of the trilogy comes with several important character losses. For viewers trying…
Antonio Banderas’ Chef is exactly the kind of person a young Anthony Bourdain seems destined to meet in Tony: demanding, worldly, unimpressed by swagger and serious about the discipline required to survive a professional kitchen. That makes him feel like one of the movie’s most obviously biographical characters. Chef does have a real-life foundation, but…
No One Leaves keeps its cast intentionally compact because almost the entire story depends on how a handful of people behave during one uncomfortable evening. Meredith arrives at a neighboring farm expecting dinner with someone she already knows, only to become increasingly focused on the young woman introduced as the neighbor’s niece. Nicole Dionne and…
Pumpkin Regatta Romance is built around two families rather than simply two romantic leads. Nadine Brooks and Ethan King have enough shared history to understand that their fathers’ long-running disagreement is affecting the entire community, while reviving the town’s Pumpkin Regatta gives them a reason to work together. Mishael Morgan and Corey Sevier lead the…
Unabomber is less interested in presenting Ted Kaczynski’s life as one continuous biography than in putting two versions of him beside each other. Jacob Tremblay plays the teenage Harvard prodigy, while Michael Laurence appears as the older man being sought decades later. Between those timelines are Russell Crowe’s Professor Henry Murray, Annabelle Wallis’ Christiana Morgan…
A Different World returns to Hillman College with the difficult task of introducing a new class without making the sequel feel like an extended reunion special. Netflix’s continuation solves that problem by putting Deborah Wayne, the youngest daughter of Whitley Gilbert and Dwayne Wayne, at the center of campus life while surrounding her with students…
Prime Video’s The Love Hypothesis arrives with one of the more recognizable setups in contemporary romance fiction: an ambitious scientist, an intimidating professor and a fake relationship that proves much harder to control than either of them expects. Claire Scanlon’s adaptation of Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling novel puts Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman at the center,…
Sole Survivor of Flight 119 is built around two women experiencing the same aviation emergency from completely different positions. Sarah Wayne Callies carries the wilderness side of the story as Lisa Foster, while Joy Bryant plays Rebecca Till, an airline executive who narrowly misses boarding the flight and becomes involved with the families waiting for…
The Ocean Between Them keeps its principal cast relatively small because the story depends on one family being separated across the Belizean coast. Rebecca Gayheart leads the film as Joan, while Jessica Lord plays Miranda, the daughter whose solo kayaking trip becomes the focus of the family’s search. Georgia Dane appears as Joan’s younger daughter…
