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AP Critics Pick the Top Movies of 2024

AP film critics weigh in with their top picks

(Newser) - Theaters are humming right now, with Wicked and Moana 2 bringing moviegoers in droves, but it's been a fairly bruising movie year. In between blockbusters, the challenge of simply getting to the screen feels more perilous than ever. The year was marked by filmmakers who wagered everything from a...

Karate Kid Actor Also Happened to Be Steve McQueen's Son

Chad McQueen has died at the age of 63

(Newser) - Chad McQueen, an actor known for his performances in the Karate Kid movies and the son of the late actor and race car driver Steve McQueen, has died. He was 63. McQueen's attorney and friend Arthur Barens confirmed to the AP that his client died on Wednesday. The cause...

12 Years a Slave a Film 'For the Ages'
 12 Years a Slave a 
 Film 'for the Ages' 
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Oct 18, 2013 6:30 AM CDT

12 Years a Slave a Film 'for the Ages'

Steve McQueen directs stark look at US slavery

(Newser) - Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave is winning widespread praise for its unflinching—and brilliantly acted—portrayal of the horrors of slavery. The film, adapted from Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, tells the story of a free man tricked into enslavement on a Louisiana plantation.
  • "Movie audiences have
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'Shame' Movie Reviews: Michael Fassbender Wows in Steve McQueen Film
 Fassbender 
 Wows in 
 Shame 
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Dec 2, 2011 10:40 AM CST

Fassbender Wows in Shame

Critics mixed on Steve McQueen's sex addiction tale

(Newser) - Shame tells the story of a sex addict’s joyless need for physical pleasure, and Michael Fassbender offers a stunning performance, critics say. But they’re divided over whether the film has much else to offer:
  • Fassbender’s work “may lay claim to this year’s title of most
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16 Women Entangled in Sex Scandals

It might usually be the men...but not always

(Newser) - Nikki Haley’s rumored affair with a blogger got the Daily Beast thinking about why it is that women get caught up in fewer sex scandals than men. That doesn’t mean, however, they're never tabloid bait. Sixteen of the juiciest:
  • Princess Diana: The tabs jumped on all sorts of
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McQueen's Wheels Up for a Spin
McQueen's Wheels Up for a Spin
Aug 15, 2007 5:45 PM CDT

McQueen's Wheels Up for a Spin

Steve McQueen's cachet will be tested when Christie's auctions off his Ferrari

(Newser) - Growling exhaust and a thumping V-12 engine doesn't usually garner $2 million at luxury auctions, but then this speedster was once owned by a movie star “synonymous with cars, horsepower, racing.” It's Steve McQueen who used to cruise in this ’63 Ferrari, a classic so polished that...

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