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FilmWeek: ‘Alita: Battle Angel,’ ‘Isn’t It Romantic,” “Happy Death Day 2U” and American remakes of foreign films
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Feb 15, 2019
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FilmWeek: ‘Alita: Battle Angel,’ ‘Isn’t It Romantic,” “Happy Death Day 2U” and American remakes of foreign films

Today on FilmWeek, Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson, Peter Rainer and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases. We also discuss our favorite, and least favorite, American remakes of foreign films.

ABA_062_DAU_0060_v0409.87501 – Rosa Salazar stars as Alita in Twentieth Century Fox’s ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL. Photo Credit: Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox.
Rosa Salazar stars as Alita in Twentieth Century Fox’s ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL
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Today on FilmWeek, Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson, Peter Rainer and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases. We also discuss our favorite, and least favorite, American remakes of foreign films.

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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson, Peter Rainer and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases.
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They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But when it comes Hollywood remakes of foreign films, this isn't always the case.
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