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    The Adam Project Feels Like a Fake MovieDerivativeness in and of itself isn’t always a problem. But when it’s all handled this shoddily, what comes through is crass, careless opportunism.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Turning Red Has No ObligationsThe new Pixar movie avoids the impossible expectations of its disparate viewers to speak only on behalf of the unabashed dork at its center.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Fresh Is a Cannibal Horror Comedy That Lacks BiteSebastian Stan is a lot of fun in this Hulu movie that otherwise is neither quite gross or satirical enough.
    By Alison Willmore
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    In the Palestinian Thriller Huda’s Salon, Oppression Comes From All SidesDirector Hany Abu-Assad’s latest features a shocking conspiracy that reveals the extent to which women are subjugated under occupation.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    After Yang Is a Gorgeous Movie About the Life and Death of a RobotColin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith star in this unconventional science-fiction film about the nature of self.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Batman Is Sad, Scary, and Even a Little SexyMatt Reeves and Robert Pattinson give us an austere, tense serial-killer thriller as much as a superhero action flick.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Cyrano Is StunningIt’s one of the most romantic movies ever made, but it’s all evasion, heartache, and yearning.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Uncharted Has Lots of Dimly Lit Secret Passages, Little ElseLooking for atmosphere? Mystery? Keep moving. Only cobwebs here.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Channing Tatum Makes a Wobbly Directorial Debut With the Road-Trip Movie DogMen will literally agree to drive a traumatized military canine down the Pacific Coast instead of going to therapy.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Death on the Nile Is a Pleasant, Overbaked TrifleIt’s totally crazy, but it works. Mostly.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Liam Neeson Action Genre Deserves Better Than BlacklightThis time, he’s a tormented, obsessive-compulsive FBI agent trying to protect his family while also saving democracy.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Marry Me Is a Gently Charming Movie With a Perfectly Outrageous PremiseJennifer Lopez stars in a romantic comedy that isn’t a return to form so much as it is an attempt to tweak the genre for the better.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Prepare to Have Your Nerves Shredded by the Belgian Bullying Drama PlaygroundDirector Laura Wandel’s debut feature puts us inside the head of a young girl who’s being tormented at school.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Zoë Kravitz Is an Agoraphobic Tech Worker in the Nimble Thriller KimiSteven Soderbergh’s new film for HBO Max is about social isolation, start-ups, and a tech worker who hears a crime on someone’s smart-home device.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Jackass Forever Is a Kinder, Gentler JackassThis might be a more emotional movie than the others. It’s also got more dongs, more zappers, and something called “Scorpion Botox.”
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Moonfall Is Gloriously, Splendidly StupidThe moon is coming to destroy us all, and frankly, bring it on.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Tender Gut Punch of The Worst Person in the WorldWith heart, splendor, and yearning, co-writer and director Joachim Trier ends his Oslo Trilogy.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Compartment No. 6 Is Already One of the Best Films of This YearIn this Cannes winner, a Finnish student and a Russian miner must share a cramped train compartment on their way to Murmansk. Hilarity does not ensue.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Sharp Stick Is a Strange, Sometimes Sexy Return to Filmmaking for Lena DunhamThe Girls creator’s first film in over a decade follows a 26-year-old virgin’s affair with a stay-at-home dad played by Jon Bernthal.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Can a Movie Be Too Prescient?Though it was shot in 2019, The Pink Cloud turns out to be unnervingly accurate in portraying how life has changed.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Do You Need a Review of Hotel Transylvania: Transformania? Here’s One Anyway.As a wise man once said, “Bleh, bleh, bleh.”
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Belle Is a Spectacular Retelling of Beauty and the Beast by Way of the MetaverseMamoru Hosoda’s new film deftly blends teen angst, fairy-tale fantasy, and a virtual online world.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The New Scream Is No ScreamSequel, remake, reboot, requel, legacyquel … Who cares? Why can’t these movies be scary anymore?
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The 355 Is Proof That Women Can Make Middling Action Movies, TooJessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger, and Fan Bingbing star in a spy movie felled by the Strong Female Character.
    By Alison Willmore
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    A Hero Is Both Moral Fable and MousetrapThe great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s latest is a gripping drama, but something feels missing.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Pitiless Excellence of The Lost DaughterMaggie Gyllenhaal’s Elena Ferrante adaptation for Netflix is the best movie of the year.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Don’t Look Up Hates Its Own AudienceAdam Mckay believes that people need laughs and famous faces to be lured into thinking about pressing matters, and he loathes them for it.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Memoria Is Curious, Complex, and Almost Undone by Its Third ActApichatpong Weerasethakul and Tilda Swinton’s experimental Memoria is curious, complex, and almost undone by its patience-testing third act.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    The King’s Man Is Here to Tell an Origin Story No One Asked ForRalph Fiennes stars in a prequel to the Kingsman movies that guesses what fans really want is less humor and more brooding.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Tender Bar Is Too Modest to Make an ImpressionThe best part of George Clooney’s overly familiar coming-of-age story is Ben Affleck’s performance.
    By Jen Chaney
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    The Matrix Resurrections Is a Messy, Imperfect TriumphDirecting solo for the first time, Lana Wachowski creates a thrillingly romantic blockbuster that expands the possibilities of the form.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Being the Ricardos Isn’t a Biopic, It’s a Filmed Wikipedia PageIt’s not just that Sorkin is a better scripter than director — it’s that he’s kind of a lousy director.
    By Jason Bailey
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    Spider-Man: No Way Home Is Aggressively MediocreA spoiler-filled review of what works, what doesn’t, and what works until it doesn’t in Tom Holland’s latest outing as Peter Parker.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley Is the Noir Equivalent of a Fake Dive BarOn the plus side, the Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett thriller looks incredible.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Red Rocket Is Ready to Cure Us of Our Love of Fast-Talking UnderdogsSean Baker’s comedy, starring Simon Rex as a washed-up porn star, is a queasy exploration of a type of character we’ve been trained to like.
    By Alison Willmore
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    With The Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino Gets Achingly PersonalThis lovely, tragic coming-of-age tale set in Naples tries to express the inexpressible.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Do You Like West Side Story? Then You’ll Love West Side Story.Steven Spielberg finally makes his musical. It was (mostly) worth the wait.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Benedetta Is Pure Verhoeven, for Better and for WorseThis tale of lesbianism, spirituality, and plague in a 17th-century Tuscan convent is somehow both shocking and obvious.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Licorice Pizza’s Unlikely Romance Is the Least Interesting Thing About ItPaul Thomas Anderson’s love letter to the Valley in the ’70s is a series of delightful episodes attached to a less compelling central story.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Humans’ New York Thanksgiving Is All Too RealStephen Karam effectively adapts his stage drama for the screen, crafting an observant study of the things we share and suppress among family.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Encanto Is the Best Disney Animated Film Since FrozenA tale of magic and belonging, with a surprisingly intimate emotional journey at its core.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Joaquin Phoenix Gives a Career-Best Performance in C’mon C’monMike Mills’s latest film is a balm for these chaotic, heartbreaking times.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    House of Gucci Isn’t a Good Movie, But It’s Definitely a Good TimeIt’s shapeless, hammy as hell, and no one in it agrees on what an Italian accent sounds like — but the Lady Gaga–led fashion saga is undeniably fun.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Tick, Tick…Boom! Is a Fascinating, Fractured Portrait of a Creative MindThe musical’s film adaptation feels like flipping open a thrift store jacket that wasn’t designed to be reversible, but works anyway.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Will Smith’s Performance Makes King Richard Worth SeeingIt’s not so much a biopic of Richard Williams, father to Venus and Serena, as it is a portrait of a family at a pivotal time in their lives.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast Is a Bolder Movie Than It SeemsThe director has made an autobiographical film, set during the Troubles, about lower-case t troubles.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Finch Might Make You Cry Like a Baby, But Is It Any Good?Tom Hanks can’t save us, but he can save that dog.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Netflix’s The Harder They Fall Is a Mess, But It’s a Fun MessThis star-studded, stylized Western may not hang together, but it has an infectious energy all its own.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Eternals Is Nobody’s FilmChloé Zhao’s MCU entry is stuffed to the gills with movie stars, yet it has no idea what to do with all that shine.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Spencer Is a Portrait of a Princess Too Sane to Play the Royals’ GameKristen Stewart may not resemble the real Diana, Princess of Wales, but she does an incredible job of capturing the woman’s charisma and her sadness.
    By Alison Willmore
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