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‘Addams Family Values’

While the Christmas canon remains as overstuffed as ever, America’s cultural turkey remains ironically under-stuffed when it comes to movies that capture the spirit of Thanksgiving. Allow us, then, to present Addams Family Values — which celebrates its 25th anniversary on November 19 — as the antidote to unsatisfying Turkey Day viewing. The bulk of Addams Family Values involves Fester (Christopher Lloyd) marrying his nephew’s gold-digging nanny, Debbie (Joan Cusack), followed by her attempts to isolate him from his family. It features one of the all-time great comedic performances by Cusack, and I’m not even kidding a little. The movie’s worth it for her alone, and if it weren’t, it’d be worth it for Anjelica Huston’s bulletproof deadpan as Morticia (“But Debbie … pastels?”) And then there’s the subplot that sends the Addams kids to camp, and Wednesday (Christina Ricci) oversees a hostile takeover of the Thanksgiving Day pageant that features a Native American revenge scenario worth of Tarantino.

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‘Thelma’

At the age of 94, Academy Award-nominated actor June Squibb finally has her first leading role with Thelma. And what a leading role it is! Written and directed by Josh Margolin, this quirky little indie comedy that first premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January stars Squibb as an elderly woman who gets scammed out of $10,000 by a criminal...

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‘Industry’ Season 3

Industry Season 3 is hands down one of the best shows you'll see all year. The new season of the HBO show shifts its primary focus onto Yasmin (Marisa Abela), who finds herself thrust onto tabloid pages after her father skips town in the heat of a major embezzlement scandal. At the same time, Pierpoint is working closely with Lumi, a green energy...

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‘Dance Moms: A New Era’

Calling all Dance Moms fans — Hulu's new reboot Dance Moms: A New Era has finally taken centerstage, with a whole new cast of characters that are sure to make a sparkly spectacle. Dance coach Gloria "Glo" Hampton is ready to make the young members of her Studio Bleu elite team stars, with a national title on the line. Of course, the franchise's ...

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‘The Creator’

While it is by no means a perfect science fiction movie, Gareth Edwards' The Creator has many positive elements that warrant it a must-watch. Set in the future where a war between humans and artificial intelligence has broken out, former special forces agent Joshua (John David Washington) is recruited to hunt down and kill the source, known...

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‘The Last of Us’

Based on the acclaimed video game of the same name, The Last of Us is set in a post apocalyptic world where a mutant fungus pandemic has raged across the United States, turning its human hosts into aggressive creatures. Joel (Pedro Pascal), a hardened survivor, is tasked with transporting Ellie, a 14-year-old girl who was infected but never...

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‘Sixteen Candles’

There's nothing quite like a romantic comedy from the 1980s — and Sixteen Candles remains one of the most memorable films from its genre. Samantha Baker is an angsty teenager whose family forgets her 16th birthday amid the chaos of her older sister's wedding. At the same time, she lusts for the cute senior with the nice car Jake Ryan, who...

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