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![Year in review: Al Alexander’s 10 best films of 2023](https://i0.wp.com/bostonmovienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/benny.jpg?resize=400%2C200&ssl=1)
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‘Aquaman 2’ drowns in mediocrity
![Taraji P. Henson as Shug Avery, Fantasia Barrino as Celie and Danielle Brooks as Sophia in "The Color Purple." (Photo from Warner Bros. Pictures)](https://bostonmovienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/colorpurple.jpg?w=400&h=200&crop=1)
‘The Color Purple’ returns to the big screen as a musical with ‘American Idol’ Fantasia Barrino
![Jeffrey Wright as Dr. Thelonious "Monk" Ellison in the shot-in-Massachusetts movie "American Fiction." (Claire Folger/Orion Pictures.)](https://bostonmovienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/americanfiction4.jpg?w=400&h=200&crop=1)
With Boston and Scituate as its backdrop, ‘American Fiction’ looks—and is—terrific
![Adam Driver in a scene from 'Ferrari.' (Lorenzo Sisti photo)](https://bostonmovienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ferrari.jpg?w=400&h=200&crop=1)
Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’ is running on empty
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‘Wonka’ and ‘Poor Things’: From a world of pure imagination to warped whimsy
![‘The Iron Claw’: A story of brotherly love and tragedy](https://i0.wp.com/bostonmovienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ironclaw.jpg?resize=400%2C200&ssl=1)
‘The Iron Claw’: A story of brotherly love and tragedy
![Dominic Sessa stars as Angus Tully, Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb in director Alexander Payne’s "The Holdovers."](https://bostonmovienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/holdovers2.jpg?w=400&h=200&crop=1)
‘The Holdovers’ wins big in Boston
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Boston—and a variety of bogus accents—is the backdrop for ‘Eileen’
![Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein and Carey Mulligan as Felicia Montealegre in "Maestro." (Jason McDonald/Netflix)](https://bostonmovienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/maestro.jpg?w=400&h=200&crop=1)