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Roger Ebert could be tough on filmmakers, but unlike many critics, he earned their respect.

ADMISSION 2 1/2 stars. Tina Fey stars as a Princeton admissions officer, Paul Rudd is a hippe-dippie progressive school head lobbying for one of his students, in this odd mix of romantic comedy, improbable soap and Ivy League satire. 1 hr. 57 PG-13 (sex, profanity, adult themes) - Steven Rea

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Fede Alvarez still remembers the first time he watched "The Evil Dead."

ORLANDO, Fla. - You sit in a darkened room and images on a screen in front of you connect you to a story that is not your own, but that becomes yours. And if it's working, you lose yourself in it.

Down a back road in northern Yangon, a sagging teak house fights back the jungle. On the gate, barely noticeable under the weeds, rusty ironwork spells out "A1 Film."

The Hollywood Reporter's list of its 10 best stories of the week:

The real-life murder, torture and kidnapping case from South Florida that's behind the coming movie "Pain & Gain" indeed reads like a script - just not a funny one.

The world could use a few more movies like "Camp."

Relentless, pitiless, bloody and intense - that's the remake of Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead."

Twenty years ago, director Steven Spielberg dazzled audiences with the herds of running and lumbering dinosaurs that filled his "Jurassic Park." Computer-generated images have become such a norm today that this kind of technology barely registers, but two decades ago it was spectacular. Check that: In the case of "Jurassic Park," it's still spectacular.

CHICAGO - "The Sapphires" is the crowd-pleasing, based-on-actual-people story of four young Aboriginal women who team up with a male Irish manager and perform for American troops in Vietnam, so it's covering its bases internationally.

Matthew Nash's grandfather only mentioned the photographs to him once.

Indian actor and director Manoj Kumar has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan for releasing a popular 2007 film in Japan without deleting scenes that make fun of him.

Oscar-winning screenwriter and award-winning novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died. She was 85.

He's not milking his fame, but Ryan Gosling is lending his name to the cause of cows.

Going back to turn Steven Spielberg's 20-year-old dino thriller "Jurassic Park" into a 3-D spectacle (required to watch with, yes, 3-D spectacles) is almost as egregious an error, it turns out, as going back and bringing tyrannosaurs and triceratops to life again in the first place. ("Jurassic Park" in 3-D opens Friday.)

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PHILADELPHIA - Fede Alvarez is wired.

LOS ANGELES - The movie crew scurried to set up camera dollies and lights in the lobby of the faded Baltimore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

Roger Ebert will be writing fewer of his famed movie reviews because of a recurrence of cancer, but the movie critic promises his illness will give him other topics to write about.

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; (R) restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; (NC-17) no one younger than 17 admitted.

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; (R) restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; (NC-17) no one younger than 17 admitted.

Film critic Roger Ebert says he has cancer again and is scaling back his movie reviews while undergoing radiation.

Six years and 52 million YouTube hits later, Filipino inmates who danced to "Thriller" inside a prison courtyard are getting their stories told in a movie drama about redemption and corruption behind bars.

Michael Bay's "Transformers" robots are shaping up again with an assist from China.

LOS ANGELES - Disney is plunging back into familiar waters, announcing a November 2015 sequel to "Finding Nemo" titled "Finding Dory."

Ellen DeGeneres is going fishing again with a sequel to the animated blockbuster "Finding Nemo."

Actress-producer Kate Hudson says the pressure of stepping out of the shadow of her movie star mom Goldie Hawn was discouraging and daunting.

Michelle Obama said Tuesday that a new movie chronicling Jackie Robinson's rise through Major League Baseball, including the racial discrimination he endured while breaking the sport's color barrier in the 1940s, left her and the president "visibly, physically moved" after they saw it over the weekend.

Michelle Obama says a new movie chronicling the rise of baseball great Jackie Robinson, including the racial discrimination he suffered on and off the ballfield, left her and the president visibly moved after they saw it over the weekend.