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March 22, 2024

At the Movies: ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' an upgrade from 'Afterlife'

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer

“Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” is a significant upgrade from “Afterlife,” with a breezier, more serviceable sequel that has a modest charm as an ’80-tinged family adventure.

Forty years after “Ghostbusters” and following a string of sequels that never measured up to the 1984 original — beginning all the way back with 1989's “Ghostbusters II” — it's fair to wonder, well, who else ought we to call? It may be time to, if not give up the ghost entirely, at least give a flip through the ol' rolodex.


 
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