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    The Souvenir Part II Is All Truth and Dead EndsThere’s a sealed-off quality to the second of Joanna Hogg’s memoirs, a sense that it’s possible to authentically portray only oneself.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Last Night in Soho Is a Mostly Intoxicating AffairStarring Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie, Edgar Wright’s freewheeling, pop-drenched homage to Swinging London is buoyant and brutal.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Cousteau and Me‘Becoming Cousteau’ charts the legendary explorer’s life, but it strikes a note of despair.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The French Dispatch Is the Most Wes Anderson Movie Wes Anderson Has Ever MadeThe ensemble anthology is airless, overly whimsical, and utterly delightful — sorry!
    By Alison Willmore
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    Dune Doesn’t Care If You Like ItDenis Villeneuve’s gloriously unfriendly take on Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic wants to feel as alien as possible.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Last Duel Is a Bro-Down Epic With a Metal HeartIt’s not so much a history lesson as it is a savage, beautiful catharsis.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Halloween Kills Is Afraid of ItselfIt wants to be a gonzo send-up and a social-message movie at the same time. It winds up being neither.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Bergman Island Is a Giddy Exploration of the Gap Between Art and ArtistMia Hansen-Løve’s new film takes place on the Swedish island that was famously home to Ingmar Bergman, but it makes room for ABBA as well.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Ghostbusters: Afterlife Is a Reanimated CorpseBut hey, people love zombies.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Lamb Is a Dark Fairy Tale With a Great Concept and Not Much to SayThe new A24 movie has a way with wordlessness — for better and worse.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Titane Isn’t Just an Extravaganza of Body Horror and Automotive SexJulia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner is a fascinating, confounding work about the longing for control over one’s own flesh.
    By Alison Willmore
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    If You Like Westerns, You’ll Want to See Old HenryTim Blake Nelson reminds us that he’s one of the best we’ve got.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Who Let Venom: Let There Be Carnage In on the Joke?In trying to do more of what made the first Venom work, the new super(anti)hero movie ruins things.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Many Saints of Newark Can’t Bring Back The SopranosThe Sopranos prequel is interesting to consider as a companion piece to the series, less so as a movie in its own right.
    By Jen Chaney
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    No Time to Die Is Fun, But Only When It Dares to BeDaniel Craig’s last outing as James Bond has plenty of action spectacle, but it can get mired in self-seriousness. Big surprise.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Tragedy of Macbeth Is Basically One Phenomenal Denzel Washington PerformanceJoel Coen’s stark Shakespeare adaptation could have gone even more minimalist and had a cast of only two, to be honest.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Dear Evan Hansen Walks Through the Uncanny Valley, Ascends AnywayWhen the movie Dear Evan Hansen works, it’s working against the original musical’s platitudes and giving weight to its inherent brutality.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Let Nicolas Cage Guide You Through the Madness of Prisoners of the GhostlandIn Japanese director Sion Sono’s eye-popping postapocalyptic Western-samurai-sci-fi epic, the actor gets to play hero, villain, and clown.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Eyes of Tammy Faye Is All Eyelashes, No TeethJessica Chastain goes big as the disgraced televangelist’s wife, but the movie doesn’t know what to make of Tammy Faye beyond her outrageous style.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Copshop Is a Nasty, Nutty SlaughterfestGerard Butler continues to do the lord’s work.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Clint Eastwood’s Lovely, Awkward Cry Macho Is As Fragile As Its 91-Year-Old StarThe picture doesn’t always work, but it works when it has to.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Queenpins Somehow Makes a Coupon-Scam Caper a DragThe new movie ping-pongs between buoyant caper, farce, and female empowerment drama without ever lingering long enough to make an impact.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Tiffany Haddish and Oscar Isaac Are Off-Kilter Hot Together in The Card CounterWhat does professional poker have in common with enhanced interrogation? This lean, mean thriller (of sorts) from Paul Schrader.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Power of the Dog and Jane Campion’s Triumphant ReturnHer new Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst may be one of her greatest films.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Shang-Chi Treats Tony Leung As More Compelling Than Its HeroThere’s something cruel about putting Simu Liu up against a legend of Hong Kong cinema who is the very embodiment of what it means to be a movie star.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Camila Cabello’s Girlboss Cinderella Is Nothing to Sing AboutJames Corden’s take on the not-so-feminist tale joins a relentless advance of pandemic movie musicals.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Candyman Is a Soulless, Didactic ReimaginingNia DaCosta and Jordan Peele’s horror sequel gravely misunderstands the allure of the original and has nothing meaningful to say on its own.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Annihilates Its Own Animation to Reveal ItselfAnime director Hideaki Anno excavates his characters’ emotions by deconstructing the world around them.
    By Eric Vilas-Boas
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    The Protégé Is Uninspiring Action Movie Comfort Food. But It Is Comfort Food.The fights are good, the dialogue is lousy, and it’s been a long week. No judgments.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Hugh Jackman’s Sci-fi Noir Reminiscence Is Weirdly BoringIt’s not that director Lisa Joy, the co-creator of Westworld, doesn’t have interesting ideas — but they’re all shoved to the side.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Beautiful, Baffling Annette Dares You to Take It SeriouslyAdam Driver and Marion Cotillard bare it all, in more ways than one, for Leos Carax and Sparks’ moving, bizarre musical.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Of Course the Murdering Rapist From Don’t Breathe Is the Protagonist NowWe love to make a horror villain into someone you’re meant to root for — the thrills of the genre make it irresistible.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Ryan Reynolds (Almost) Saves Free GuyHis pathological insincerity might be just what this derivative action-comedy needs.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Netflix’s Beckett Is a Leisurely Chase ThrillerAmerican tourist John David Washington escapes from Greek cops and hooks up with Vicky Krieps. Relax, it’s not as interesting as it sounds.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    CODA Is an Occasionally Corny But Very Effective Family DramedyEmilia Jones plays the only hearing member of a Massachusetts fishing family in this Sundance crowd-pleaser that’s hard to resist.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Respect Dulls the Inherent Glow of Aretha FranklinThis movie may satisfy those who want to bask in Franklin’s music. But if that’s the desire, I’d suggest playing her records instead.
    By Robert Daniels
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    Val Doesn’t Know Who Val Kilmer Is, and That’s a Good ThingA moving new documentary about the elusive life and career of an endlessly fascinating actor.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Udo Kier Will Break Your Heart in Swan SongThe German actor is tremendous in this elegiac comedy about a flamboyant former hairdresser living in a small Ohio town.
    By Alison Willmore
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    A Little of The Suicide Squad Goes a Long WayIt’s possible James Gunn’s “soft reboot” of the DC superhero franchise is too much of a good thing and not enough of a better thing.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Matt Damon Makes For an Excellent Unlovable American in StillwaterThe new movie from Spotlight director Tom McCarthy is a character study in the guise of a crime thriller.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Disney’s Jungle Cruise Is MurderAnd not in the good way.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Green Knight Is a Ravishing, Unsettling FantasyIn David Lowery’s new A24 movie, Dev Patel is a gadabout in search of a legend to call his own.
    By Alison Willmore
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    M. Night Shyamalan’s Old Is Beautifully Made and Terribly WrittenThe Sixth Sense director still has a way with sinister shots, but is oddly invested in having the audience care about his cardboard characters.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Joe Bell Is a Moving Tale That Misses Its Chance at GreatnessMark Wahlberg stars in the real-life story of a man who tried to walk across the country to spread an anti-bullying message.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Is Nice to Look at, SometimesIf you told me everybody making this movie had an Uzi pointed at their head, I might believe you.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Isabelle Huppert Plays a Parisian Drug Lord in Mama WeedThat’s it. That’s the review.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    See Pig and Tremble Before Your Own MortalityLet Nicolas Cage illuminate the way.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Anthony Bourdain Doc Roadrunner Can Be Invasive. Sometimes, It’s Worse.In deciding to treat his subject as a mystery to be solved, director Morgan Neville makes some ugly choices.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Maybe Netflix’s Fear Street Should Have Just Been a TV ShowThe delightfully nasty Fear Street exists in this strange space between movies and television, serving neither format well.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Women of Netflix’s Gunpowder Milkshake Deserve BetterIs this really the best Hollywood can offer the likes of Michelle Yeoh and Angela Bassett?
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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