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The Godfather Part III, the final chapter in Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Godfather trilogy, was given a wide theatrical release on December 25, 1990 – and as far as director Luca Guadagnino is concerned, that release date was the perfect choice for the film, as it happens to be his go-to choice for Christmas viewing.

When IndieWire asked Guadagnino what he likes to watch over the holidays, he replied, “[The Godfather Part III] is the best of the three for me. Part II is too perfect and The Godfather is too legendary. But Part III has the ambition of a man who did everything and the fragility of the man who is going toward this older part of his work and his life. And it’s full of this longing melancholy. The scene where Diane Keaton listens to her son sing at the party in the villa, where she wanders in her...

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My Old Ass is a coming-of-age sci-fi comedy-drama film written and directed by Megan Park. The Prime Video film follows Elliott, an 18-year-old who takes mushrooms on her birthday and comes face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old. Soon, she is contacted by her older self who gives her life advice which makes Elliott forces to rethink everything from family to love. My Old Ass stars Maisy Stella, Percy Hynes White, Maddie Ziegler, Kerrice Brooks, and Aubrey Plaza. So, if you loved the coming-of-age drama, comedic tone, and compelling characters in My Old Ass here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Deja Vu All Over Again! concludes at Trailers from Hell, with director Ti West on Francis Ford Coppola's "Peggy Sue Got Married," a bittersweet wish-fulfillment fantasy starring Kathleen Turner.Turner stars as a melancholy housewife fast approaching middle-age who hits her head at her class reunion and wakes up in 1960 as her 17 year-old self. What might have been just another helping of ersatz Capra-corn turns into a savvy and even rueful comedy thanks the shrewd screenplay by Jerry Leichting and Arlene Sarner. The duo turned this material into a musical that opened and closed in London’s West End in 2001. The final film of veteran actor Leon Ames.

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A portrait of a family in crisis, Agnieszka Holland's latest film hits the ground running, and that forward momentum carries it for its intriguing first hour before it heads smack into a melodramatic wall and never recovers.

The promising portion involves the relationship between Julie (Australia's impressive Miranda Otto) and her common-law husband Henry (William Fichtner) and what happens to it when she finds him in their bed with another woman.

In the midst of their certain breakup, their young son, Nicholas (nicely played by Ryan Smith), is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Desperate for a miracle, Julie brings the fragile boy to Poland, where Alexis, a creepy Russian healer ("Jesus of Montreal"'s Lothaire Bluteau), is said to cure people by the hundreds.

So far, so good -- and Holland, best known for "The Secret Garden" and "Europa, Europa", allows the story to unfold with jittery, erratic rhythms that neatly reflect the emotional pulse of its female protagonist.

Alas, not only does the creepy Russian guy with the miracle hands makes Nicholas' cancer go into remission, he also steals Julie's heart, and the two plunge into a rather preposterous, starry-eyed romance that would have been right at home on an afternoon soap.

Things will take one final, more sensible turn. But by that time, the film -- written by Holland along with Arlene Sarner and Roman Gren -- has crumbled under the dictates of a Canada-Germany-Poland co-production agreement under which it must be all things to all countries and ultimately ends up pleasing no one.