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‘King Ivory’ Review: Drugs, Guns, Cops and Cartels Dominate an Effectively Gritty Fentanyl-Era Thriller Starring Ben Foster
James Badge Dale and Melissa Leo co-lead the ensemble in John Swab's Oklahoma-set story, which follows several characters facing off in a brutal drug war.
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Oscar Winner Brian Helgeland on 30-Year Journey to Make ‘Finestkind,’ Most Personal Film of His Career
The Paramount+ film, streaming Dec. 15, stars Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega and Tommy Lee Jones.
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‘Finestkind’ Review: Not Even Jenna Ortega and Tommy Lee Jones Can Keep Brian Helgeland’s Clichéd Maritime Drama Afloat
Ben Foster and Toby Wallace co-star in a New England-set crime drama written and directed by the Oscar-winning 'L.A. Confidential' screenwriter.
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Will Smith’s ‘Emancipation’: What the Critics Are Saying
Antoine Fuqua's escaped slave drama will be released in select theaters Dec. 2, followed by a global streaming debut on Apple TV+ on Dec. 9.
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‘Emancipation’ Review: Will Smith Leads Antoine Fuqua’s Propulsive but Shallow Slave Drama
The Oscar winner stars alongside Ben Foster and Charmaine Bingwa in a narrative based on the true story of "Whipped Peter," an enslaved man who escaped a Confederate army labor camp.
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‘The Survivor’ Star Ben Foster Talks the Challenges of Playing a Concentration Camp Prisoner
"I wasn’t afraid of getting lost," says Foster. "I think we all felt a real responsibility to be in service of this story."
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Adam Sandler and Queen Latifah in Netflix’s ‘Hustle’: Film Review
NBA player Juancho Hernangómez also stars in Jeremiah Zagar’s inspirational drama about a struggling Philly pro basketball scout betting everything on an unknown talent.
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‘The Survivor’ Star Ben Foster Talks Losing 62 Pounds for Holocaust Role
The New York-based actor, working with the Shoah Foundation, also spent hundreds of hours listening to testimonies of concentration camp survivors.
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Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega to Star in Crime Drama ‘Finestkind’
The feature, from 'Mystic River' scribe Brian Helgeland, has been picked up by Paramount+ in key territories, including the U.S. market.
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Chris Pine in ‘The Contractor’: Film Review
A former Green Beret signs on for lucrative black-ops work that quickly turns disastrous in an action thriller that also stars Ben Foster, Gillian Jacobs and Eddie Marsan.
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Ben Foster in ‘The Survivor’: Film Review | TIFF 2021
Barry Levinson tells the true story of a Jewish boxer who's haunted by what it took to survive the Holocaust.
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Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa Join Will Smith in ‘Emancipation’ Drama
Gilbert Owuor and Mustafa Shakir also star in the film, which is about a slave escaping to freedom and directed and produced by Antoine Fuqua for Apple Studios.
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