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    The Monkey Has Good Kills, But No SoulThe latest Osgood Perkins movie, adapted from a Stephen King story, is a fine diversion — if you ignore the gaping hole at its center.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Daisy Ridley’s Die Hard Knockoff, Cleaner, Has Some Fun Action But Little ElseNot even veteran action-master Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, GoldenEye) can’t fix this dopey script.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    With Mickey 17, Bong Joon Ho Offers a Bitterly Funny Take on AmericaRobert Pattinson plays an immortal drudge and Mark Ruffalo gives sci-fi Trump in the new film from the director of Parasite.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Questlove’s Sly Lives! Is a Revealing Portrait of the Hazards of GeniusYou walk out of Sly Lives! feeling like you’ve genuinely learned something, but you also walk out exhilarated.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Best Movie at Cannes Last Year Is Finally in TheatersMatthew Rankin’s Universal Language feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Paddington in Peru Bites Off More Than It Can ChewFortunately, adorable talking bears have big appetites.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Marvel Is Now a Giant Slop MachineThe messy and tiresome Captain America: Brave New World has a few ideas, but it handles them in the most shallow, simplistic ways.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    It’s Honestly Really Nice to Get Older With Bridget JonesIn Mad About the Boy, Renée Zellweger’s chaotic singleton has finally learned to love herself.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Horizon Will Be a Monumental Achievement — If Kevin Costner Can Finish ItThe latest installment of Kevin Costner’s four-part western epic is darker and more intimate than the first.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Horror Comedy Is the Genre of Our MomentAnd Heart Eyes is funny and gory enough to fit the bill.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Michelle Yeoh Star Trek TV Movie Just Doesn’t Have the JuiceIt’s almost cruel to compare Star Trek: Section 31 to the series Deep Space Nine, which created its core concept.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Does Love Hurts Even Count As a Movie?If you can’t make the fight scenes interesting in a film that’s nothing but fight scenes, what have you got?
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    A Woman Is a Woman and the Legend of Anna KarinaJean-Luc Godard’s second released feature — a magnificent and bizarre “neorealist musical” — is back in theaters in a 4K restoration.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Companion Is a Perfectly Mean RompSophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid star in a comedic thriller that’s better with dark twists than it is with big ideas.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Rom-Com You’re Cordially Invited Is a Much Better Com Than RomWill Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon just don’t have natural romantic chemistry?
    By Alison Willmore
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    Train Dreams Is a Staggering Work of ArtNetflix just bought one of the best films of the year out of Sundance, but please, for the love of God, don’t watch this masterpiece on your phone.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Wedding Banquet Is Rom-Com Whiplash in the Best SenseThe characters in Andrew Ahn’s remake of an Ang Lee classic can get gay-married, but they’re going to get fake straight-married instead.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    An Absorbing Sundance Thriller With a Dark HeartAlireza Khatami’s The Things You Kill is a case study for how to make an effective psychological thriller.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Best Film at Sundance Is Just Two People TalkingIra Sachs’s new film, Peter Hujar’s Day, starts off as an elevation of the quotidian but transforms into something more reflective.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    A Slithery, Singing John Malkovich Is All Opus Has Going for ItIt’s frankly shocking that nobody has asked him to play a pop star until now.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Zodiac Killer Project Brilliantly Deconstructs Our Obsession With True CrimeA work of criticism as well as a work of art, Charlie Shackleton’s sly film is nebulously sinister and dryly hilarious all at once.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    One Star-Making Performance Can’t Save Kiss of the Spider WomanEnergetic and riveting, Tonatiuh brings layers of tenderness and complexity. If only the rest of the picture could match his vitality.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Thing With Feathers Almost Wastes a Great Benedict Cumberbatch PerformanceThe actor is at his best, most alive and inventive here. But The Thing With Feathers doesn’t know what kind of movie to be.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    All That’s Left of You Isn’t Looking for Just EmpathyA Palestinian acting dynasty stars in this uneven but artful film about the alienation that survival sometimes requires.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    A Languorous, 87-Minute Movie Worth WatchingSierra Falconer’s Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) is an anthology film that actually works.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Rabbit Trap Needs More Than Technical Razzle DazzleThe Sundance horror movie has a lot to say about repression, but you can’t really call it subtext when it’s literally screeched from minute one.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    A Dark Truth Runs Beneath the Surface of The Dating GameThe colorful, almost exuberant surfaces of Violet Du Feng’s Sundance documentary mask a grim, dystopian reality.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Cinderella Was Always a Body-Horror StoryNorwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Flight Risk Is Not the Right Kind of DumbThis gimmicky thriller, directed by Mel Gibson and starring Mark Wahlberg, starts falling apart almost as soon as it gets started.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Shouldn’t Nosferatu Be Scarier?Lily-Rose Depp stars in a vampire movie from The Witch director Robert Eggers that’s gorgeous and weirdly inert.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Fernanda Torres Is a Subtle Marvel in I’m Still HereWalter Salles’s political drama looks at one family’s suffering during Brazil’s military dictatorship.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Grand Theft Hamlet Is a Delightful Putting-on-a-Show DocumentaryShot entirely in Grand Theft Auto Online, this film about two actors attempting an unusual Shakespeare production is both hilarious and touching.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Presence Is the Best Thing Steven Soderbergh’s Done in AgesIt’s an art film that also works as a spellbinding horror film.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Kieran Culkin Is a Mercurial Pleasure in A Real PainJesse Eisenberg’s charming Sundance breakout moves gently and smoothly but hints at an all-consuming darkness underneath.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Wolf Man Is Half a MovieLeigh Whannell’s new horror film has some good scares, but it strands its characters in the murk.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    They Don’t Make Comedies Like One of Them Days AnymoreBut they should.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Is More Challenging Than You Might ExpectFor such a hot movie, this Daniel Craig–starring William S. Burroughs adaptation sure feels emotionally sealed off.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Gerard Butler Letting Loose Is a Beautiful Thing to BeholdIf the first Den of Thieves was a meathead remake of Heat, the sequel feels like a meathead remake of Miami Vice.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    You Can’t Ignore Pamela Anderson’s FaceAnderson’s performance in Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl often elevates a rote, repetitive plot.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Saving the Hummingbirds of Los Angeles, Despite the OddsSally Aitken’s sublime new documentary, Every Little Thing, shows us that healing society begins with healing the most vulnerable.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Thank the Cinema Gods, Mike Leigh Is BackHard Truths might be his funniest film in a long time, but as always, it’s the kind of laughter that comes with unnerving inevitabilities.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Flow Is an Animal Adventure That’s Endearing and a Little Too PrettyThe Latvian animated film is a wordless survival story that lets its animals act like animals.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Music Industry Couldn’t Handle Luther VandrossHe longed for the same acclaim and freedom awarded to his white contemporaries in yacht rock.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    BETTER MAN
    The Craziest Musical of the Year Is Finally HereTrying to describe the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man, one sounds like a lunatic.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton Are Perfectly Imperfect TogetherWho could blame Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door for being more interested in its leading ladies than in contemplating death?
    By Alison Willmore
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    Tyler Perry’s Cosplay of a War Movie Hardly Does Its Subjects JusticeThe Six Triple Eight ends up being more about what these women endured than about what they accomplished.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Jim Carrey (and Jim Carrey) Elevate Sonic the Hedgehog 3These movies aren’t anything if they’re not fun, and Jim Carrey understands that better than anyone. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 gives us two of him.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Hollywood’s Forgotten How to Make Movies Like The Count of Monte CristoPeriod action-adventures used to be Hollywood’s thing. But we never see movies like this thrilling new French adaptation of the Dumas classic anymore.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Brutalist Is Half of a Great MovieA terrific Adrien Brody anchors this three-and-a-half-hour American saga whose ambitions end up exceeding its grasp.
    By Alison Willmore
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    All the Technological Wizardry in the World Can’t Save Mufasa: The Lion KingBarry Jenkins’s prequel to the 2019 “live-action” remake of the 1994 Disney animated classic leaves much to be desired.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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