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Christopher Lawrence

Christopher Lawrence is the movie critic for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
clawrence@reviewjournal.com … @life_onthecouch on Twitter. 702-380-4567

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10 biggest TV, film moments of 2017 — and why Las Vegas cares

The Clark High grad hosted the Oscars, then jumped into the national spotlight with his impassioned pleas for health care for those with pre-existing medical conditions after his son, Billy, was born with a heart ailment.

 
Boulder City’s little-known tie to Oscar hopeful ‘La La Land’

“That’s probably a movie first, maybe,” writer-director Damien Chazelle said with a laugh while discussing the film’s connection to the small Southern Nevada town, specifically its library.

 
Every movie coming out this holiday season that you need to watch

The bulk of this year’s Oscar nominees will come from films that are still awaiting release. It should be their time to shine, these small, thoughtful works of art. And yet they’ll still be overshadowed at the box office by spinoffs of two of the most successful franchises in movie history.

 
‘Pete’s Dragon’ is sweet-natured but plodding

There’s a boy named Pete. He has a dragon. And that’s pretty much where the similarities between this weekend’s “Pete’s Dragon” andthe 1977 original begin and end.

 
Raunchy ‘Sausage Party’ is frankly hilarious

“Sausage Party” is so wrong, so go-for-broke insane, existing words aren’t enough to describe it. Shockrageous comes close. As does horristurbing.

 
‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ admits the ‘third one’s always the worst’

They’ve battled the villainous William Stryker, the killing machines known as Sentinels and, more often than not, each other. Now, the mutants of “X-Men: Apocalypse” are fighting their greatest enemy yet: sequelitis.

 
‘Captain America’s’ dueling superheroes leave us hungry for more

Well, whaddya know? You really can stuff too many superheroes into a 2½-hour movie, make them fight each other, throw in some mommy issues and, despite a muddled plot, actually leave audiences thrilled and hungry for more.

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