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    A Sad-Eyed Josh O’Connor Goes Tomb-Raiding in the Lovely, Mysterious La ChimeraAlice Rohrwacher’s playful, rambling new film follows a man who robs graves to find his way into the next world.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    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.
    By Alison Willmore
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    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.
    By Nicholas Quah
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    A Gore-Soaked Spectacle of Depravity and PainYou can practically smell the Asphalt City director chain-smoking behind the camera, muttering about spitting in the face of humanity.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    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.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Netflix’s Shirley Chisholm Biopic Never Matches the Power of Its SubjectThe Regina King-starring drama about the first Black woman presidential candidate doesn’t do its subject (or the star who plays her) justice.
    By Nicholas Quah
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    The Tense and Gruesome Immaculate Is an Art Film at HeartSydney Sweeney, however, is spectacular as a pregnant nun suffering the tortures of the damned.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Best and Bleakest Comedy of the Year So FarRadu 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.
    By Alison Willmore
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    We Don’t Know AnythingThe 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.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Bustin’ Makes Me Feel BlehIn Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the jokes are witless, the emotions artless, and the film joyless.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    A New Road House by Way of Looney TunesJake Gyllenhaal is better at oddballs than heroes — thank God he’s playing one of the former in this Road House remake.
    By Alison Willmore
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    A Portrait of Frida Kahlo Like We’ve Never Seen Her BeforeCarla Gutierrez’s documentary uses the artist’s own words (and pictures) to tell her story.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    A Final Farewell to Ryuichi SakamotoA new concert film, Opus, represents the culmination of a lifelong journey from effusive maximalism to gentle simplicity.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour - Mexico City, Mexico
    The Eras Tour Film Is Sequined Asset ManagementTaylor Swift’s big-screen adaptation is almost too much movie.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    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.
    By Alison Willmore
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    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.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Jonathan Glazer’s Auschwitz Drama Borders on the UnwatchableThe shock of Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning Auschwitz drama is not in the graphic terrors it depicts, but in what it doesn’t show.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    We’re Going to Be Talking About American Fiction All Awards Season LongCord Jefferson’s directorial debut, American Fiction, is a sharp comedy about racial commodification anchored by a terrific Jeffrey Wright.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Wonka … Is Pretty Good?Look, I’m as surprised as you are.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Netflix’s Damsel Is Sweaty, Snarly, Slithery FunMillie Bobby Brown might have the lead role in the new fantasy thriller, but the dragon steals the show.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Problemista Could Use a Little Less Tilda SwintonAnd how often can you say that?
    By Alison Willmore
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    Adam Sandler Is All Wrong for SpacemanSandler 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.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    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.
    By A.A. Dowd
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    Let the Hypnotic, Caustic Beauty of About Dry Grasses Consume YouDirector Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Cannes award winner is one of the best films of this or any other year.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    There’s a Great Movie to Be Made About Bob Marley. One Love Is Not It.You’ll leave knowing less about Marley than you did going in.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    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.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Under the Fig Trees Lets Its Women Talk BackThe Tunisian film is a beautifully shot exploration of love, life, and labor.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Mads Mikkelsen’s Cold, Hard Stare Awaits Us in the Epic Promised LandI cannot adequately express to you how perfect Mikkelsen is in this role; that sensuous frown of his has infinite layers.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    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.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Wim Wenders Has Been Trying to Make Perfect Days His Whole LifeThe director’s latest is probably the best film he’s made since Until the End of the World.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    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.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    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.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Pictures of Ghosts and the Images That Outlive Us AllThe beguiling new film from Bacurau’s Kleber Mendonça Filho is a meditation on place, film, and time passing.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Tótem Throws a Goodbye Party You’ll Never Want to LeaveDirector Lila Avilés’ extraordinary family drama is in the vein of party films like Monsoon Wedding and Rachel Getting Married.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Chilling War Game Shows Us What America’s Next Insurrection Might Look LikeAnyone who witnessed the real January 6 will find their stomach in knots, though admittedly some of us have had our stomachs in knots for years now.
    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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    Love Lies Bleeding Needs More Than Violence and GrandeurRose Glass’s new thriller, starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian, is passionate and bold, but can rely too much on stylized glimpses of gore.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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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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    Love Me Asks Too Many QuestionsKristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star in an emo version of Wall-E that is furiously literal-minded.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Moving Ibelin Captures a Life Only Seemingly Half-LivedBenjamin Ree’s powerful new Sundance documentary gently uncovers a dying young man’s online life, full of love, connection, and humor.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Netflix’s New Heist Movie Lift Wastes a Fun CastKevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Vincent D’Onofrio are trying to steal Jean Reno’s gold. Somehow, we don’t really care.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    In the Moving Bye Bye Tiberias, Hiam Abbass Considers the Cost of WarPalestinian-born actress Hiam Abbass will break your heart in this documentary portrait of her family, filmed by her daughter Lina Soualem.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    The Ruthless New Mean Girls Knows Better Than to Try and Make Fetch HappenA pretty good remake proves the Plastics will never die.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Killers of the Flower Moon Turns Out to Be the Simplest, Slipperiest of ThingsIt’s not Martin Scorsese’s western, and it’s not another gangster epic. It’s his marriage story.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    There’s Nothing Else Like The Book of Clarence, for Better and WorseEven if it doesn’t work, there’s something admirable about how at ease Jeymes Samuel’s new film is with its own erratic rhythms.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Transcendent Society of the Snow Has Existential BiteNot since Martin Scorsese’s Silence has a film so thoughtfully considered what faith can, and can’t, do.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    The Boys in the Boat Is Better Than You’ve HeardDirected by George Clooney, this period rowing drama is the kind of unfussy medium-budget prestige pic Hollywood rarely makes anymore.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    In Ferrari, Adam Driver Is a Force of Steel, Asphalt, and DeathMichael Mann’s long-gestating movie is elegant and restless, with a sense throughout that something horrific is lurking around each corner.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Push-Pull of Brutality and Joy at the Heart of The Color PurpleThe movie musical adaptation of the classic novel (and film) carves out its own path.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard Are So Weirdly Right Together in MemoryNot a lot of Michel Franco’s somber drama makes sense, but it’s a movie clearly meant to be carried by its leads.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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