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'War for the Planet of the Apes' Has Action and Nuance

Amiah Miller as a human girl adopted by the apes, and Karin Konoval as the orangutan Maurice in "War for the Planet of the Apes".
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Even when it threatens to turn into in a wobbly stretch near the end, never ceases to be a movie, never turns into a product. That’s to say that the filmmakers have conceived it as a dramatic and emotional experience and not just the scheme of a studio marketing department, the craven and transparent

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