NEW YORK (CNS) -- Very few games these days can leave you breathless. But "Beat Saber" achieves that effect in the course of just one song. Produced by Beat Games, this virtual-reality rhythm title requires players to combat incoming flying objects with a lightsaber while grooving to the selected music track. The future has arrived -- and it's a fun experience for the entire family.
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- Monsters are ravaging the world, and only you can end their rampage in "Dauntless," the latest free role-playing title from Epic Games. With its bright Pixar-esque graphics, easy accessibility and freedom from most morally objectionable content, "Dauntless" will delight a wide range of age groups.
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- 'Tis the season, so it would seem, for devilish dollies. First, someone in Hollywood had the bright idea of rebooting the odious "Child's Play" series, setting maniacal Chucky back on the rampage.
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- In Latin and Greek, the name Anna means "full of grace." In the violent thriller "Anna" (Summit), the eponymous leading lady is anything but. Rather, Anna (Sacha Luss) is a comely assassin for the Russian KGB., as easy on the eyes as she is handy with a knife and gun. Director Luc Besson ("Nikita," "Lucy"), who also wrote the screenplay, has crafted a stylish game of cat and mouse which will keep viewers guessing as often as Anna changes sides and works for the enemy.
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- Just how good are the hotshots behind "Toy Story 4" (Disney)? So good that, by the time the closing credits roll, moviegoers will likely feel more emotional connection to an animated spork than they have to the vast majority of live-action human characters they've ever seen on screen.
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- The nicest thing that can be said about the reimagined horror film "Child's Play" (Orion), it that is just 88 minutes long. Any longer and it could be designated a method of torture.
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- With "Men in Black: International" (Columbia), director F. Gary Gray serves up an amusing and stylish reboot of the sci-fi comedy franchise that kicked off in 1997. While sometimes dicey dialogue and a bizarre offscreen encounter indicate his film is best for mature audiences, its restraint in other respects makes it possibly acceptable for older adolescents.
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- The decidedly improbable and scattershot comedic elements of "Late Night" (Amazon) give the film the look of something that had its dents hammered out in the editing room. It's still an uplifting story, however, scripted by Mindy Kaling, briskly directed by Nasha Ganatra. The film is partly based on Kaling's own experiences as a TV scribe trying to get her voice heard in an all-white, all-male writers' room and eventually expressed by a late-night TV host.
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- Lessons about overcoming fear and helping those in need are featured in "The Secret Life of Pets 2" (Universal). Given that they come amid generally amusing antics that unfold at a lively pace, returning director Chris Renaud's follow-up to his 2016 original rates as an entertaining cartoon suitable for all but the youngest kids.
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- Though somber in tone, the Marvel Comics-based sci-fi adventure "Dark Phoenix" (Fox) has a fundamentally moral outlook and features a more relationship-driven story than many similar films.
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