‘Wallace and Gromit’ return, ‘Paddington’ heads south, and the ‘Wolf Man’ goes on the prowl

Happy New Year and welcome back to the Align Movie Guide, our no-nonsense guide to what’s worth a look on the big screen.

One of the better films of 2024 was “The Apprentice,” a depiction of the early years of young Donald Trump (an excellent Sebastian Stan). Marketed as “the movie Trump doesn’t want you to watch,” the flick failed to do much business.

Those who did spring for a ticket enjoyed a warts-and-all — yet surprisingly nuanced — portrait of an insecure but ambitious young man struggling to escape his overbearing father’s shadow.

The lesson? Anti-Trump hysteria no longer sells like it used to. In fact, the dawning of the Trump 2 era seems to have loosened the stranglehold wokeness has had

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