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Zack Snyder’s Screensaver Space Opera Comes to an Uneventful End Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver is a dream fulfilled for Snyder but one that ultimately isn’t that ambitious.
David Dastmalchian Deserves to Be a Star As a beleaguered talk-show host, he carries the new horror film Late Night With the Devil .
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Guy Ritchie Goes Brutally Posh The purveyor of British gangster sagas goes upscale for his Inglourious Basterds knockoff, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare .
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Apr. 16, 2024
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Apr. 12, 2024
Drive-Away Dolls Is Just Fizzy EnoughMargaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan star in a lesbian road-trip comedy that will mostly remind you of better movies.
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Apr. 12, 2024
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Apr. 12, 2024
Civil War Isn’t the Movie You Think It IsAlex Garland’s war epic is more about how we respond to images of conflict than it is about the conflict itself.
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Apr. 12, 2024
I’m Glad Everyone Had Such a Good Time Making Sasquatch Sunset If only there were more reason to actually watch the movie they made.
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Apr. 5, 2024
Monkey Man Is a Solid Action Thriller, But It Clearly Wants to Be MoreDev Patel’s directorial debut has amazing fight scenes, but it also overdoses on religious imagery and mythical overtones.
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Apr. 5, 2024
Behold, an Actually Good Omen Movie It’s also, not unlike the very-similar Immaculate , surprisingly topical, reflecting back societal fears in the form of genre thrills.
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Apr. 5, 2024
With The Old Oak , Ken Loach Goes Out on a Hopeful Note In the director’s final film, the people of a dying English town and a group of Syrian refugees discover they have more in common than they realize.
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Apr. 4, 2024
There’s Really Nothing Else Like The Beast Léa Seydoux and George MacKay are doomed lovers over three lifetimes in Bertrand Bonello’s haunting movie.
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Apr. 3, 2024
Little Things , Big ProblemsTurns out Denzel Washington crime dramas can sometimes be bad, too.
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Mar. 29, 2024
A Sad-Eyed Josh O’Connor Goes Tomb-Raiding in the Lovely, Mysterious La Chimera Alice Rohrwacher’s playful, rambling new film follows a man who robs graves to find his way into the next world.
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Mar. 29, 2024
Lisa Frankenstein Is Strictly a Mall-Goth AffairKathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse star in a disappointingly flimsy horror comedy about a teen loner and her undead companion.
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Mar. 29, 2024
Wicked Little Letters Should’ve Been for the SickosThere’s a great psychosexual drama lurking inside this otherwise serviceable trifle starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley.
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Mar. 29, 2024
A Gore-Soaked Spectacle of Depravity and Pain You can practically smell the Asphalt City director chain-smoking behind the camera, muttering about spitting in the face of humanity.
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Mar. 28, 2024
Did We Really Need Kaiju to Get All Cute? Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire doesn’t deliver the giant-monster goods, but it does make its creatures disconcertingly adorable.
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Mar. 23, 2024
Netflix’s Shirley Chisholm Biopic Never Matches the Power of Its Subject The Regina King-starring drama about the first Black woman presidential candidate doesn’t do its subject (or the star who plays her) justice.
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Mar. 22, 2024
The Tense and Gruesome Immaculate Is an Art Film at Heart Sydney Sweeney, however, is spectacular as a pregnant nun suffering the tortures of the damned.
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Mar. 22, 2024
The Best and Bleakest Comedy of the Year So Far Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World makes being ground up in the global machinery of capitalism look good.
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Mar. 22, 2024
We Don’t Know Anything The Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall is a courtroom thriller and a marital drama, but it’s also about how we’ve lost the ability to grasp reality.
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Mar. 22, 2024
Bustin’ Makes Me Feel Bleh In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire , the jokes are witless, the emotions artless, and the film joyless.
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Mar. 21, 2024
A New Road House by Way of Looney Tunes Jake Gyllenhaal is better at oddballs than heroes — thank God he’s playing one of the former in this Road House remake.
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Mar. 19, 2024
A Portrait of Frida Kahlo Like We’ve Never Seen Her Before Carla Gutierrez’s documentary uses the artist’s own words (and pictures) to tell her story.
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Mar. 16, 2024
A Final Farewell to Ryuichi Sakamoto A new concert film, Opus , represents the culmination of a lifelong journey from effusive maximalism to gentle simplicity.
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Mar. 14, 2024
The Eras Tour Film Is Sequined Asset ManagementTaylor Swift’s big-screen adaptation is almost too much movie.
The Fall Guy Is a Funny, Romantic, Stunt-Filled DelightRyan Gosling and Emily Blunt have terrific chemistry in this action-packed movie adaptation of the hit 1980s TV series.
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Mar. 10, 2024
Oppenheimer Is a Tragedy of Operatic GrandeurChristopher Nolan’s movie about the invention of the atomic bomb is almost too big to wrap your head around.
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Mar. 10, 2024
Is Poor Things the Best We Can Do for Female Sexuality Onscreen? Emma Stone fully commits to a banal rendition of faux -feminist sexual freedom.
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Mar. 10, 2024
Jonathan Glazer’s Auschwitz Drama Borders on the Unwatchable The shock of Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning Auschwitz drama is not in the graphic terrors it depicts, but in what it doesn’t show.
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Mar. 10, 2024
Miyazaki Didn’t Lose a Step Back from temporary retirement, Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning film, The Boy and the Heron, is a reminder of what makes him an animation legend.
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Mar. 10, 2024
We’re Going to Be Talking About American Fiction All Awards Season Long Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut, American Fiction , is a sharp comedy about racial commodification anchored by a terrific Jeffrey Wright.
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Mar. 8, 2024
Wonka … Is Pretty Good?Look, I’m as surprised as you are.
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Mar. 8, 2024
Netflix’s Damsel Is Sweaty, Snarly, Slithery Fun Millie Bobby Brown might have the lead role in the new fantasy thriller, but the dragon steals the show.
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Mar. 5, 2024
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Mar. 4, 2024
Adam Sandler Is All Wrong for Spaceman Sandler plays a Czech astronaut. Paul Dano plays a giant spider from outer space that comes out of his nose. This movie should have been a lot better.
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Feb. 27, 2024
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Doesn’t Give a Damn That the DC Universe Is EndingWinningly goofy but blemished by behind-the-scenes tinkering, The Lost Kingdom is disappointing in the usual sequel way.
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Feb. 23, 2024
Let the Hypnotic, Caustic Beauty of About Dry Grasses Consume You Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Cannes award winner is one of the best films of this or any other year.
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Feb. 16, 2024
Unfortunately, Madame Web Is Bad in a Boring Way Dakota Johnson seems to give up halfway through this latest superhero movie, which drags through the middle and is inept by the end.
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Feb. 14, 2024
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Feb. 13, 2024
The Iron Claw Should Be Even SadderZac Efron, Harris Dickinson, and Jeremy Allen White star in the story of a tragic wrestling family that holds its subjects at arm’s length.
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Feb. 9, 2024
The Taste of Things Is Ravishing, Delectable, and Maybe Even a Little RadicalStarring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, Tran Anh Hung’s film immediately joins the pantheon of great food movies.
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Feb. 7, 2024
Under the Fig Trees Lets Its Women Talk BackThe Tunisian film is a beautifully shot exploration of love, life, and labor.
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Feb. 2, 2024
Mads Mikkelsen’s Cold, Hard Stare Awaits Us in the Epic Promised Land I cannot adequately express to you how perfect Mikkelsen is in this role; that sensuous frown of his has infinite layers.
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Feb. 2, 2024
How to Have Sex Is a Journey Through Euphoria and DreadDirected by Molly Manning Walker, the film’s elliptical style has the quality of a dark, fragile memory.
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Feb. 2, 2024
Wim Wenders Has Been Trying to Make Perfect Days His Whole Life The director’s latest is probably the best film he’s made since Until the End of the World .
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Feb. 2, 2024
Argylle Delivers Twisty-Turny Tedium, But Its Action Scenes Are GreatMatthew Vaughn might not be able to tell a story, but he can choreograph some wild mayhem.
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Jan. 30, 2024
The Greatest Night in Pop Is a Huge Blast of Gen-X NostalgiaNetflix’s new documentary about the making of “We Are the World” will be hard to resist for a lot of us.
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