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Emily Yoshida

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    American Hangman Is a Cheap, Dumb, Off-Brand Black Mirror EpisodeIt’s college-level death penalty discourse, appropriately armed with what appears to be a college-level production budget.
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    Escape Room Is a Tight, Thoroughly Fun ThrillerA smart script and clever art direction elevate the puzzle-obsessed not-quite-horror movie.
  3. most anticipated 2019
    50 Movies We Can’t Wait to See in 2019Brad Pitt goes to space, It returns, Greta Gerwig debuts her Little Women, and Timothée Chalamet is king.
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    Stan & Ollie Is a Synthetic But Sweet Biopic of Two Born EntertainersIt’s also extremely sweaty.
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    Bird Box Wasn’t Written by an Algorithm — But It Sure Feels Like It WasYou don’t appreciate the art of a good genre contrivance until you see one pulled off poorly.
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    Second Act Is a Strange, Scattered Attempt to Cash In on NostalgiaIn some ways, Jennifer Lopez’s latest embodies all the ways in which the mainstream “women’s comedy” is having an identity crisis right now.
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    Welcome to Marwen Is a Totally Confounding MovieRobert Zemeckis’s film fails to capture what’s interesting about Mark Hogancamp’s art.
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    Cold War Is a Stunning Love StoryPawel Pawlikowski’s follow up to the Oscar-winning Ida is a passionate heartbreaker told through music and across decades.
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    Prepare to Be Blown Away by the Child Actors in the Heartbreaking CapernaumLebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki’s tragic childhood tale is fabulous filmmaking, but a lot to endure.
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    Mortal Engines Is a Breath of Fresh AirIt’s a pretty admirably engineered work of escapism, made all the more astonishing by its ability to stand independent of a cinematic universe.
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    See Aquaman for Its Trippy Undersea Visuals and You Won’t Be DisappointedThere are two kinds of people: those who break out into a stupid grin upon hearing the words “Ocean Master,” and those whose hearts are made of stone.
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    Tyrel Is a Subtle — Then Brutally Effective — Portrait of Racial AlienationIt’s a chamber orchestra of unconscious prejudice and passive-aggression, with Jason Mitchell’s performance as the violin solo at the center of it.
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    Vox Lux Is a Fascinating FailureNatalie Portman’s pop-star drama feels like it has a lot to say, but never gets around to it.
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    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Is Infectiously FunMiles Morales’s Spider-Man gets his big-screen debut, and it’s one of the most enjoyable superhero films — and computer-animated films — of our era.
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    Mary Queen of Scots Turns Its Queen Into a Generic Underdog FigureIt’s painfully old-fashioned, yet another type of movie that we may no longer have much use for — the awards-season, low-concept costume drama.
  16. best of 2018
    Emily Yoshida’s Best Movies of 2018Including directorial debuts, mysterious documentaries, and violent fever dreams.
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    The Party’s Just Beginning Is Karen Gillan’s Pitch-black Directorial DebutThere’s very little upside in this tale of depression and suicide in a quaint little Scottish town.
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    Mirai Is a Galaxy-Brained Journey Through a Family’s Past and FutureMamoru Hosoda tells this child’s story at a child’s eye level, and the diversions feel part and parcel of that point of view.
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    Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built Is a Narcissistic, Ugly SlogVon Trier returns with a violent, banal, navel-gazing session.
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    Robin Hood Is a Cinematically and Politically Incoherent Movie SaladRobin Hood is Antifa now, or something?
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    Shirkers’ Sandi Tan Didn’t Expect Her Very Strange Story to Be So UniversalThe Shirkers filmmaker talks about the weird life of her long-buried movie, now on Netflix.
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    The Palme D’Or-Winning Shoplifters Is a Subtle Tale of a Family on the MarginsHirokazu Kore-Eda delivers another layered, intimate story, this time about a poor Japanese family that lovingly kidnaps an abused girl.
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    The Clovehitch Killer Is a Smartly Underplayed Domestic NightmareA nearly unrecognizable Dylan McDermott plays a suburban dad from hell.
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    Jinn Is a Radically Empathetic Tale of a Teen’s Religious ConversionWriter-director Nijla Mu’min tells the story of a mother’s and daughter’s search for faith.
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    Ralph Breaks the Internet — But Really, the Internet Breaks RalphThe Wreck-It Ralph sequel throws its unstable protagonist into the internet — and late capitalism.
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    Overlord Is Too Synthetic to Be Horrifying — or FunThe Nazi zombie movie’s thrills are as removed as watching a video game over someone’s shoulder.
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    The Girl in the Spider’s Web Loses the ThreadLisbeth Salander graduates from aristocratic rapists to nukes in Fede Álvarez’s new take on the franchise.
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    Rosamund Pike Gives a Career-Best Performance in A Private WarIt’s a tougher, less comforting journalism movie than the last few you may have seen.
  29. best of 2018
    The Best Movies of 2018 (So Far)Including Annihilation, Black Panther, The Rider, and The Death of Stalin.
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    The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Is a Sleepwalk, Not a DreamAs a contender for cherished childhood mythology, its methods are cheap. And as a mere child distractor, it seems awfully expensive.
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    Maria by Callas Is a Fleetingly Intimate Portrait of the Late Opera DivaThe documentary features recordings, interviews, and previously unpublished letters — and a lot of blank spaces.
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    Shirkers Is a Joyful, Haunted Tale of Creativity, Youth, and LossSandi Tan’s wildly creative documentary is part mystery, part memoir of growing up young, angry, and drunk on cinema in early-’90s Singapore.
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    Suspiria Is a Bleak, Gorgeous, Radical Reimagining of Its PredecessorLuca Guadagnino’s gruesome reimagining has neither style nor substance in common with Dario Argento’s giallo classic, and it’s all the better for it.
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    Steven Yeun Makes His Leading-Man Korean Film Debut in BurningLee Chang-dong’s moody mystery is based on a Haruki Murakami short story.
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    An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn Is Empty, Outdated, and Zero FunAubrey Plaza and Craig Robinson don’t quite escape unscathed from this near-unwatchable follow-up from the director of The Greasy Strangler.
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    Can You Ever Forgive Me? Is a Visceral Depiction of LonelinessMelissa McCarthy plays a failing writer turned highly successful forgery artist in Marielle Heller’s early-‘90s period piece.
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    The Oath Is Mad As Hell and Has No Idea What to Do About ItThe Oath lands in an unpleasant middle ground that is too close to reality to feel like escapism, and too antic to feel anything like incisiveness.
  38. interviews
    Andrea Riseborough Is Done DisappearingThe notoriously private, chameleonic star of Mandy, Nancy, and Black Mirror is ready to put her name on things.
  39. movie review
    22 July Is a Gripping Depiction of Tragedy With a False Sense of an EndingBut it feels uneasy being “captivated” by any of this, period.
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    The Hate U Give Is an Incredibly Powerful Contemporary EpicAt its heart, it’s the story of one girl internalizing the threat of racial violence that shapes every aspect of her life.
  41. new york film festival 2018
    High Life, The Favourite, and 16 More Movies We Can’t Wait to See at NYFFRachel Weisz and Emma Stone vying for Olivia Colman’s affection! Juliette Binoche and a sex machine!
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    Kevin Hart’s Night School Is Dumb Fun With an Admirable AgendaThere’s a heap of good intentions behind it, and enough big laughs to make us want to forgive it in the end.
  43. vulture insiders
    Robert Redford’s The Old Man & The Gun Director Weighs In on His Final FilmDavid Lowery, director of The Old Man & The Gun, on creating a film about a larger-than-life figure — with some larger-than-life figures.
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    Amid a Wave of Police-Shooting Films, Monsters and Men Is Respectable EnoughBut it feels half-baked.
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    The House With a Clock in Its Walls Never Really Gets TickingEli Roth’s witchy kid adventure prioritizes the machinations of the adult characters, and throws in some left-field darkness.
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    The Sisters Brothers Falls Back on the FamiliarWithout the Western trappings, this would be a simplistic sibling drama, with barely enough meat on its bones for 90 minutes, much less 121.
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    Keira Knightley Brings Spirit to the Politely Sexy ColetteIn her collaboration with director Wash Westmoreland, Knightley plays a gifted French novelist whose husband publicly takes credit for her work.
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    Peter Dinklage Requested That His I Think We’re Alone Now Character Love Wine“I really wanted to NOT be not a drinker.”
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    White Boy Rick Is Strangely UninvolvingYann Demange’s film never sells the extraordinariness of its extraordinary subject.
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    A Simple Favor Is a Breezy, Soapy NoirDespite its sunny Connecticut suburb setting, it’s a straight-ahead noir, in its chatty, perverse, popcorn-y original recipe.
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