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Liam and Noel Gallagher may be the reason the cameras are present, but the crowds become the soul of a concert film that understands an anthem can hold a family, a city and an entire generation at once.

Resident Evil finally understands that survival horror works best when the hero is underprepared, the ammunition is scarce and every locked door feels more threatening than another lecture about Umbrella Corporation lore.

Practical Magic 2 finds genuine feeling in three generations of Owens women, yet its strongest relationships keep fighting for room inside a long, busy sequel that mistakes more magic for more enchantment.

The Weight understands that stolen gold is valuable precisely because it is difficult to move, turning every river, bridge and suspicious companion into another cost desperate men must calculate.

Cocoon: One Summer of Girlhood is delicate without being timid, using friendship, painterly animation and an imperfect floral metaphor to mourn lives interrupted before they have fully begun.

Runner knows the appeal of watching Alan Ritchson turn every available object into a weapon, and Owen Wilson gives the mayhem an affable pulse, even when the movie around them feels assembled from familiar parts.

By Any Means is uneven by design and sometimes simply uneven, but Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Mark Wahlberg make its collision of civil-rights drama and revenge movie hard to dismiss.

The Uprising is alive whenever Paul Greengrass throws the audience into the chaos, yet thin characterization and an overly explanatory script keep its spectacle from carrying real weight.

Onslaught has the cast, gore and Carpenter worship to be a midnight-movie blast, but its slow burn leads to a payoff that feels more familiar than ferocious.

Buddy is at its funniest and creepiest when its smiling orange unicorn behaves as if murder is simply another lesson of the day.