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Movie Review: ‘The Nun II’
Bob GarverSpecial to Valley News“The Nun II” is the ninth film in the “Conjuring Universe,” a franchise tied to the adventures of paranormal investigators...
Movie review: ‘Gran Turismo’
Bob GarverSpecial to the Valley NewsLike its main character, “Gran Turismo” fights hard to overcome the stigma of its association with a video game....
Movie review: ‘Meg 2: The Trench’
Bob GarverSpecial to the Valley NewsIt’s around the two-thirds mark in “Meg 2: The Trench” that the audience learned that some of the film’s...
Movie review: ‘Oppenheimer’
Bob GarverSpecial to the Valley NewsThe other half of this summer’s “Barbenheimer” phenomenon, “Oppenheimer” did so well in its second weekend that I will...
Movie review: ‘Barbie’
Bob GarverSpecial to the Valley News“Barbie” prides itself on inspiring a full range of feelings – both in its characters and its audience. The...
Movie review: ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’
Bob GarverSpecial to the Valley NewsLast summer, when “Top Gun: Maverick” was making roughly all the money printed in the United States during that...
Movie reviews: ‘Elemental,’ ‘Insidious: The Red Door,’ ‘Sound of Freedom’
A quick explanation about this week’s movies: with an estimated $40 million at the domestic box office, “Sound of Freedom” had the most money...
Movie review: ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’
Bob GarverSpecial to the Valley NewsIt has been 15 years since famed archeologist/adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) was onscreen in “Indiana Jones and the...
Movie review: ‘The Flash’
Bob GarverSpecial to Valley NewsIt’s been a whole two weeks since “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” opened, so it’s about time we had another superhero...
Movie review: ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’
Bob GarverSpecial to the Valley NewsFew blockbuster franchises are as reviled by critics as “Transformers.” The 2007 original and its 2009 sequel “Revenge of...