Michael B. Jordan On His Ultimate Goal, Industry Diversity And ‘Creed II’
NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with actor Michael B. Jordan as he bookends his year in movies with a return as boxer Adonis Johnson in the sequel Creed II.
Director Alfonso Cuarón Reimagines His Mexican Childhood In ‘Roma’
The official entry for Best Foreign Language film from Mexico is Roma, director Alfonso Cuarón’s black-and-white reimagining of his middle class childhood home in Mexico City.
‘Green Book’ Offers By-The-Book Uplift

Peter Farrelly’s tale of a black musician chauffeured through the Deep South of the 1960s by a white driver is “a well-meaning but glib and shallow ode to interracial healing.”
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‘Creed II’ Isn’t In The Same Weight Class As ‘Creed,’ But It’s Got Heart

The sequel to 2015’s winning overhaul of the venerable Rocky franchise is “is a more listless and ordinary film than Creed by any measure, but still a rewarding one.”
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‘You Better Own This’: How Rami Malek Came To Embody Freddie Mercury

Malek sang at the top of his lungs while playing Queen’s iconic lead singer in the new biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. Still, he says, “No one can sing like Freddie Mercury.”
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