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Comedy-horror Cocaine Bear has an undoubtedly bizarre premise. But the movie is actually loosely based on real-life events.

Sunday studio estimates say the gonzo R-rated horror comedy “Cocaine Bear” sniffed up $23.1 million in its opening weekend, while Marvel's “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” was quickly dwarfed in its second weekend

In September 1985, Tennessee authorities discovered the body of Andrew Carter Thornton II, a former narcotics officer turned drug smuggler who had fallen to his death from a plane. The bags full of cocaine he was transporting into the country took longer to recover. By the time the illicit cargo…

This is Jaws meets Gilmore Girls and Brave

A great work of cinema has more to offer than its surface narrative; look deeper into it, and the viewer will find metaphors and themes meriting thought and discussion.

It gives me no pleasure to hate on “Cocaine Bear.” The director Elizabeth Banks (”Pitch Perfect 2,” the “Charlie’s Angels” reboot) isn’t the chief problem, even if her mashup of dismemberment, mugging and dubious heartwarming is this month’s working definition of “tonal problems.” But with this script, the project was…

'Cocaine Bear' is a fittingly absurd, shockingly violent horror comedy. Here's Inverse's review of the new, Elizabeth Banks-directed film.

Not since Snakes on a Plane has a title promised so much, but despite a great cast the plot is too tame

Elizabeth Banks’s film turns its titular character into nature’s own avenging angel, who tears human beings apart as one might drunkenly demolish a McNuggets Sharebox after a night out