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Benjamin Tovias

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  1. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · Benjamin Tovias

    Elon Musk tried to sink ‘The Odyssey’, audiences made it a blockbuster (opens the original)

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    Neither the controversy surrounding its casting nor its intimidating running time of nearly three hours could stop Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” from becoming a box-office phenomenon and proving that Hollywood’s expensive gamble on the director paid off.In its opening weekend, the film grossed more than a quarter of a billion dollars, taking in $264 million from Thursday through Sunday, roughly matching its reported $250 million production budget in box-office revenue alone.Along the way, it

  2. Article · Jul 19, 2026 · Benjamin Tovias

    We ranked every Christopher Nolan movie, and 'The Dark Knight' is not No. 1 (opens the original)

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    Christopher Nolan is no longer Hollywood’s next great consensus filmmaker. He is the current one. In a career spanning just over 25 years, Nolan has not merely joined the front rank of major directors. He has climbed to the very top. He may be the only filmmaker working today whose movies are expected not only to become cultural events, as is also true of Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson and Martin Scorsese, but also to rank among the year’s biggest box-office hits and reshape entire genr

  3. Article · Jul 10, 2026 · Benjamin Tovias

    Disney’s new 'Moana' remake is a copy-paste job but it still works (opens the original)

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    If the marketing and engineered buzz are any indication, “Moana” looks like a film in which Disney has simply given up. Not in the sense that anyone expects it to be a box-office failure: following last year’s milquetoast “Lilo & Stitch,” there is a reasonable chance it could even become the year’s highest-grossing film. But the days when Disney launched its live-action remakes with months-long publicity campaigns — heavily promoting the celebrity voice actors sent on cushy late-night interviews

  4. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · Benjamin Tovias

    Tom Hanks turns 70, and it’s time to ask: Is he really a good actor? (opens the original)

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    “Run, Forrest, run!” Jenny (Robin Wright) shouted to Forrest (Tom Hanks), urging him to escape the bullies. And he ran, while the car speeding after him could not catch up. Today, that scene is known as the subject of countless parodies mocking the kitsch and heroism of “Forrest Gump.” But in a movie theater in 1994, you could practically feel the audience rising from the edge of its seat, wanting to cheer for Forrest along with Jenny. In a less cynical United States, it probably actually happen

  5. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Benjamin Tovias

    Paul Rudd vs. Nick Jonas: This music drama is well worth your time (opens the original)

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    His name is hardly familiar to most viewers, and none of his films has become a massive blockbuster. And yet Irish director John Carney has more or less created a genre of his own — and a fairly beloved one at that. You know the type: sweet comic dramas about unlucky singers who, through a musical connection with other artists, usually while working on one magical pop song, form a bond with their soulmate.Actually, one of Carney’s films did become a hit, if indirectly. We are talking about “Once

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