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‘Luca,’ Pixar’s generic (and literal) fish out of water tale, lands on Disney+

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Pixar dips into the ocean once too often with “Luca,” a colorful but thin (and literal) fish-out-of-water tale. Although the movie touches on familiar themes about friendship, overcoming differences and letting children go, there’s roughly enough story for something between an animated short and the film that lands, understandably in

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‘In the Heights’ reignites long-standing conversations about colorism in the Latinx community

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Franceli Chapman knows what Washington Heights looks like. The uptown Manhattan neighborhood where Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “In the Heights” takes place is where Chapman, an Afro-Latina actress with roots in the Dominican Republic, played on street corners as a child and where she hung out on rooftops as a teenager. Chapman

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Rita Moreno defends Lin-Manuel Miranda over ‘In the Heights’ colorism controversy

By Chloe Melas, CNN Rita Moreno is standing by her good friend Lin-Manuel Miranda. The actress appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Tuesday night and spoke about the controversy surrounding Miranda’s new movie “In the Heights,” in which he has been criticized for featuring dark-skinned Afro-Latinos in background and dance scenes but not

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