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Director George Clooney both begins and ends 鈥淭he Boys in the Boat 鈥� on a sun-dappled lake.

An intimate documentary on Michael J. Fox and a song recorded by Ryan Gosling are among the films and music advancing to the next round of the Oscars race.

Exuberant performances from a cast led by Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks breathe life into Blitz Bazawule鈥檚 stirring 鈥淭he Color Purple,鈥� adapted from the Tony-winning Broadway production.

It's perhaps appropriate that the latest Aquaman movie is about a lost kingdom. In many ways, this mini-franchise is just that, a Jason Momoa kingdom that could just quietly sink below the cinematic waves.

In Steve McQueen鈥檚 鈥淥ccupied City,鈥� a young woman with an even voice narrates, with rigorous specificity, Nazi encounters and crimes throughout Amsterdam during World War II. The accounts go address by address, and so does McQueen鈥檚 camera.

BERLIN (AP) 鈥� Martin Scorsese will be honored for his lifetime achievement at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, organizers said Thursday.

It doesn鈥檛 take long to understand the level of commitment Zac Efron brings to 鈥淭he Iron Claw鈥� as Texas wrestling brother Kevin Von Erich. Just one look at the taut mass of muscle and sinew he鈥檚 become for the role will do the trick.

Andrew Scott plays a writer trying to write something about his dead parents in Andrew Haigh鈥檚 transcendent drama 鈥淎ll of Us Strangers.鈥� His parents鈥� death is not recent 鈥� they died when he was 12.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Andrew Haigh began getting a sense of the knockout power of his new film , 鈥淎ll of Us Strangers,鈥� a few days after it premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. 鈥淚鈥檇 run into people who had seen the film three days before.