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  1. Only the Brave Is Proof We Need More Firefighter MoviesThe stirring ensemble drama is everything that’s great about war movies, without the war.
    By Emily Yoshida
  2. All I See Is You Is One of the Strangest, Most Satisfying Surprises of the FallBlake Lively’s latest is what a Lifetime Movie directed by Gaspar Noé would look like, and it’s kind of great.
    By Emily Yoshida
  3. Jane Is a Captivating Look at Jane Goodall’s Exploration of ‘the Great Mystery’We disagree on many things, but we can all agree on Jane Goodall.
    By David Edelstein
  4. The Snowman Is a StiffTomas Alfredson’s adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s serial-killer story is a bad match of director and material.
    By David Edelstein
  5. Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold Is a Chronicle of an Era-Defining VoiceThe emotional late-career tribute arrives on Netflix October 27.
    By Emily Yoshida
  6. Todd Haynes’s New Film Is Beautiful. Maybe Too Beautiful.For the first time, Haynes is working with a story whose plot outweighs its concept, as lovely as that concept often is.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    BPM Is a Vital Testament to Public ActionWe should watch BPM and ask, “How disruptive are we willing to be?”
    By David Edelstein
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    Colin Farrell Reunites With His Lobster Director for This Chilling Horror FilmThe Lobster’s Yorgos Lanthimos latest is a bloodcurdling genre treat.
    By Emily Yoshida
  9. Leatherface Is a Thoroughly Unnecessary Horror Origin StoryWho hasn’t wondered what the guy from Texas Chainsaw Massacre was like as a kid?
    By Emily Yoshida
  10. Goodbye Christopher Robin Is Overfermented HoneyThe tale of Christopher Robin Milne’s childhood lost is decent but overripe.
    By David Edelstein
  11. Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel Is Obvious and Old-HatPerhaps Allen doesn’t think people can really transcend anything ever.
    By David Edelstein
  12. Breathe Is a By-the-Numbers Prestige Romantic Drama With a CauseAndy Serkis makes his directorial debut with the tale of a paralytic man and his wife.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Human Flow Is Ai Weiwei’s Exhaustive Look at the Plight of the RefugeeThe Chinese artist turns his attention to displaced people around the world.
    By Emily Yoshida
  14. Jackie Chan’s The Foreigner Is Weightier Than Your Standard Revenge DramaIt’s serious to a fault, but it’s unpredictable, and has gravitas.
    By David Edelstein
  15. The Simple, Goreless Joys of Happy Death DayThe movie is no big deal, but its Groundhog Day conceit is kind of irresistible.
    By David Edelstein
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    The Meyerowitz Stories Is the Best Adam Sandler Film Since Punch-Drunk LoveNoah Baumbach’s new film shows the director at his most generous and insightful.
    By Emily Yoshida
  17. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Is Escapist Fare of the Highest OrderThe private utopia of the polyamorous trio who brought you Wonder Woman is a pretty nice place to spend a couple of hours.
    By Emily Yoshida
  18. Dina Is a Slight But Sweet Look at a Neurologically Atypical RomanceThe Sundance Grand Jury Prize–winning doc drags a bit, but has a lot of heart.
    By Emily Yoshida
  19. Take My Nose …Please, a Buoyant, Troubling Look at Funny Women & Plastic SurgeryEmily Askin and Jackie Hoffman wonder whether going under the knife is empowering or a result of brainwashing.
    By David Edelstein
  20. Give Yourself Over to the Ridiculous Fantasy of The Mountain Between UsIn which the beautiful Idris Elba and Kate Winslet gaze longingly at each other while subtext swirls around them like falling snow.
    By David Edelstein
  21. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson Is a Shattering DocumentaryThe film investigates the mysterious death of trans activist and icon Marsha P. Johnson — and the city that let it go unsolved for decades.
    By David Edelstein
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    The Florida Project Is a Near-Perfect Follow-up From the Director of TangerineIt’s a heightening in every way of everything that was great about Baker’s last movie.
    By Emily Yoshida
  23. Una Is a Stage-to-Screen Adaptation That Never Finds Its MomentumRooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn star in the film version of David Harrower’s Blackbird.
    By Emily Yoshida
  24. Faces Places Is a Road Movie That Doubles As Agnes Varda’s Artistic StatementThe New Wave legend teams up with street artist JR for a ruminative tour of France.
    By Emily Yoshida
  25. Flatliners Is Embarrassing, Third-Rate, and UnrevivableThe new version loses the original’s most intriguing element, and turns into tidy, cornball, Sunday school moralism.
    By David Edelstein
  26. Super Dark Times Is a Visually Stunning High-School NightmareIt’s a stylish and confident debut feature from director Kevin Phillips.
    By Emily Yoshida
  27. Our Souls at Night Is a Contrived But Enjoyable Fonda-Redford ReunionFifty years after Barefoot in the Park, Jane and Robert give us good vibes again.
    By David Edelstein
  28. Blade Runner 2049 Can’t Match Its PredecessorDenis Villeneuve’s vision is more sentimental and less striking than Blade Runner.
    By David Edelstein
  29. American Made Is the Best Tom Cruise Has Been in YearsThe insane tale of a CIA operative/drug smuggler finds the actor at his manic best.
    By Emily Yoshida
  30. Victoria & Abdul Bears a Passing Resemblance to a Good MovieStephen Frears’s touch has gotten heavier and more dodderingly tasteful, but Judi Dench has held onto her magic.
    By David Edelstein
  31. Battle of the Sexes Is Buoyant Propaganda — But It’s Very EntertainingIf Battle of the Sexes is unsurprising to a fault, it’s by no means a double fault.
    By David Edelstein
  32. Kingsman: The Golden Circle Is Bloated, Campy, and Thoroughly StupidA sequel was de rigueur, of course, but what a mess it is.
    By David Edelstein
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    Stronger Is Anything But Your Standard Overcoming-the-Odds TearjerkerThough Gyllenhaal deserves any accolades the film brings him, Maslany’s performance was the one that floored me.
    By Emily Yoshida
  34. The Lego Ninjago Movie Is a Mess for Anyone Unfamiliar With Lego Ninjago MythosThis movie is in the martial-arts–giant-robot–Asian-fusion Lego business, and don’t you forget it.
    By Emily Yoshida
  35. Gaga: Five Foot Two Is a Superficially Intimate Look at an Awkward PhaseLady Gaga’s behind-the-scenes documentary premieres on Netflix this week.
    By Emily Yoshida
  36. Woodshock Is an Intriguingly Starry-eyed Trip to NowhereKate and Laura Mulleavy’s directorial debut isn’t light on ideas, it just never completes them.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Mother! Is a Second-Rate, Self-Aggrandizing Tour De ForceDarren Aronofsky’s latest puts Jennifer Lawrence through the mill for no purpose except nurturing a strain of masochism.
    By David Edelstein
  38. Brad’s Status Is a Naked, Grim Exploration of EnvyEven if you relate to Brad, you’ll probably end up wishing he’d save it for his shrink instead of a paying audience.
    By David Edelstein
  39. American Assassin Is Aggressively, Flagrantly Not a Movie We Need Right NowBut it works better if you think of it as a Batman movie.
    By Emily Yoshida
  40. The Shape of Water Is an Utterly Lovely But Complacent MovieDel Toro’s influences have been distilled and reassembled into a stylized Girl Meets Gill Man fairy tale that shimmers with its filmmaker’s love.
    By David Edelstein
  41. Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father Is Frustratingly Inert CinemaIs it unequivocally shitty to be the person lamenting the cinematography in Angelina Jolie’s Khmer Rouge movie?
    By Emily Yoshida
  42. The Scarier, Funnier New It Easily Surpasses Its PredecessorThe new adaptation is in that rare category of remakes that actually have a mission.
    By Emily Yoshida
  43. The Unknown Girl Is a Gripping Mystery Solved Too ConvenientlyBut every Dardennes film is worth seeing.
    By David Edelstein
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    Review: Game-Hunting Doc Trophy Refuses to Stoke Easy OutrageIt will leave you angry, sick, and confused — but not smug.
    By David Edelstein
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    Review: I Do … Until I Don’t Is Amusing Until Its Satirical Backbone Gives WayDon’t let the bohemian title fool you: Lake Bell’s I Do … Until I Don’t is the most bougie movie ever made.
    By David Edelstein
  46. Bushwick Is an Alarmingly Timely Thriller With a Shallow PlotThe real threat, it says, is from within, from white men in states like Texas and the Carolinas who view multiculturalism as the enemy.
    By David Edelstein
  47. Beach Rats Is a Slight But Gorgeously Realized Coming-of-Age StoryEliza Hittman’s story of a Coney Island bro questioning his sexuality is at its best when focusing on mood over plot.
    By Emily Yoshida
  48. I Think I Saw The Hitman’s Bodyguard, But I Can’t Be SureThe one with Chris Pine and Tom Hardy? Or, wait …
    By Emily Yoshida
  49. Patti Cake$ Is a Gritty Crowd-pleaser That Isn’t a Cliché, Just Cliché-AdjacentThe Sundance hit demonstrates that showbiz go-for-it stories are more alike than unalike, even when they have a vivid countercultural vibe.
    By David Edelstein
  50. Gook Offers a Visually Striking But Distant Korean Perspective on the L.A. RiotsStar and director Justin Chon is using a completely different visual vocabulary to talk about the riots.
    By Emily Yoshida
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