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Last year was a pandemic-fueled disaster that kept cinephiles at home to watch films. And though many of us went back to the movies, blockbusters returned and streaming services persisted, 2021 was still a strange year that’s now ending with Spider-Man battling not the Green Goblin or Venom, but the omicron variant. OK, so things aren’t totally back to normal, but there was plenty to see wherever you preferred to watch your favorites. It was a big year for movie musicals – some wonderful, others not so much (looking at you, "Dear Evan Hansen"). A year after “Bill & Ted” returned, Keanu Reeves brought back another beloved series with “The Matrix Resurrections.” Marvel debuted its first lead Asian superhero in “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings,” Vin Diesel revved up the box office with a ninth “Fast and Furious” and Scarlett Johansson reprised her “Avengers” role in “Black Widow,” then sued Disney. ‘Licorice Pizza’ When Paul Thomas Anderson makes an awards season fi

Lady Gaga makes an immediate and indelible impression as Patrizia Reggiani, the future Signora Gucci, in Ridley Scott’s film about the Guccis’ fractured history. After climbing out of a sports car, she struts across a car park in a tight skirt and stilettos, swinging every moving part she possesses, much to the delight of her audience of truck drivers and mechanics. But underlying this resounding declaration of sexual pride is a more cautionary note: You mess with me, at your own risk. It’s a warning Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) fails to heed when she lays claim to him after they meet at a party. In the face of an upwardly mobile, heat-seeking missile of Patrizia’s calibre, he hasn’t a chance and the repercussions eventually tear his family apart as well as weakening its hold on a fashion house that has been in its hands for three generations. Like most dynastic sagas, it’s an irresistible story and Scott has been waiting to tell it since his production company acquired the film rights

This is a spoiler-free review of The Matrix Resurrections, which hits theaters and HBO Max Dec. 22.  Nostalgia naysayers are often quick to trash remakes, reboots, or long-lead sequels. They call them blatant cash grabs or cheap tentpole vehicles solely meant to play into decades-old excitement. Statements like those can be easy to dismiss but, unfortunately, fans who were skeptical of another Matrix sequel are proven right when it comes to The Matrix Resurrections. There are good parts, of course. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss returning as Neo and Trinity is a dream come true, and the new players make delightful additions to the cast. Jonathan Groff eats up every scene he’s in as Smith, and Jessica Henwick’s Bugs might actually be the best part of Resurrections. And the weird version of Morpheus portrayed here probably wouldn’t even begin to work if it were anyone other than Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the cartoonish suits.  In fact, I’d go so far as to say that The Matrix Resurrecti