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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    'Dora and the Lost City of Gold' is worthy only of silver

    Our critics review "The Kitchen," about wives who become powerful mobsters in Hell's Kitchen; "Dora and the Lost City of Gold," a live-action film based on the "Dora the Explorer" cartoon, in which Dora tries saving her parents while trying to…

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    KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Aug 9, 2019 • 1 min read

    Our critics review "The Kitchen," about wives who become powerful mobsters in Hell's Kitchen; "Dora and the Lost City of Gold," a live-action film based on the "Dora the Explorer" cartoon, in which Dora tries saving her parents while trying to solve a mystery about a lost Incan civilization; "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," about horror stories that become real for a group of teens; "After the Wedding," about a woman who needs money for her orphanage in India and travels to New York to meet a benefactor.

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      Barbara Bogaev

      radio journalist

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      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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      Line Editor, Press Play

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      Digital News & Culture Editor

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      Amy Nicholson

      host of the podcast “Unspooled” and film reviewer for the Los Angeles Times

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      senior U.S. critic for Screen International and author of “This Is How You Make a Movie”

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