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BRUCE R. MILLER Are you underpaid, under-appreciated and overlooked? You could be a vampire’s “familiar.”At least that’s how Harvey Guillen sees it.Guillermo, the assistant he plays in “What We…

There’s a cute film under the sheets of “No Hard Feelings.” It just needs a blanket of humor and a couple of pillows to fluff it up.Jennifer Lawrence – working harder than she should – stars as a Montauk native…

BRUCE R. MILLER While it probably plays out too easily, “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant” does make you stop and think about duty.Do you owe something to someone who saved your life? Or is it too…

If you’ve ever been on Chicago’s architecture boat tour, you’ll recognize structures in “Elemental.”…

A comics scholar could have a field day trying to dissect all that’s wrong with “The Flash.”Overreaching, overly comical and entirely overdone, it tries to capture what DC Comics hopes to do with its franchises…

I have binged entire series in less time than it takes to watch “Avatar: The Way of Water.”That, alone, makes it a difficult sit at a theater. At home, there’s the ability to press pause and resume when the feeling…

Keanu Reeves reportedly gave stunt men Rolex watches when they wrapped “John Wick: Chapter 4.” Good thing, too. They earned every bit of them.In what must be the biggest display of stunts in years, “Chapter 4”…

The Spider-Verse is larger than you even imagined.In “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” three directors expand on the first film in ways you probably didn’t imagine.Using visuals that suggest Warhol, Banksy and…

BRUCE R. MILLER Nicolas Cage made a dandy vampire in “Vampire’s Kiss.” So what went wrong with “Renfield,” the story of Dracula’s sidekick?We think it’s because it’s largely a Cage-free…

The new live-action version of “The Little Mermaid” is so stuffed with extraneous characters, lavish orchestrations and special effects, you wonder if there’s room to move.Too many fish in the sea, you might…