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  Aquaman Proves Superheroes Are Better Down Where It’s Wetter

  December 18 at 6 a.m.

  Not incidental to Aquaman’s pleasures is its vision of a mixed-race hero, played by a mixed-race actor, fighting to protect and understand clashing aspects of his heritage

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  Water Damage Temporarily Shutters the Esquire Theatre

  December 17 at 3:10 p.m.

  It is unclear when the theater will reopen.

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  Ben Is Back Pits a Dazzling Julia Roberts Against the Opioid Scourge

  December 17 at 6 a.m.

  With the quickest blink or nervy glance, Roberts communicates to us both what her character, an ordinary woman named Holly Burns, has convinced everyone around her to think she’s feeling but also all of her secret doubts, fury and anguish

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  Free for All: The Five Best Free Events This Week

  December 17 at 5:29 a.m.

  Caroling and comedy!

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  Cities Roll, Fight and Eat Each Other in the Otherwise Meh Mortal Engines

  December 13 at 7 a.m.

  The film plays as if a three-hour epic has been sliced down to size in the editing, but only the scenes establishing character and context have been cut

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  Into the Spider-Verse Is the Best Superhero Movie Since The Dark Knight

  December 12 at 7 a.m.

  It sets a host of alternative Spider-folk running amok in the New York City of Brooklyn teen Miles Morales, the mixed-race Spider-Man (his father is black and his mother Latinx) invented for the comics in 2011 by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli