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    The New Space Jam Never Thought It Could Be a Good MovieWhich is a shame, because LeBron James is certainly a better actor than His Airness ever was.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Mysterious, Mesmerizing Scales Has a Lot on Its MindSaudi director Shahad Ameen’s dystopian fable captivates us with its stark, enigmatic world.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Black Widow Bids a Barbed Farewell to the MCU’s First Female SuperheroScarlett Johansson plays Natasha one last time (for now) in an espionage adventure that’s as much a criticism of the character as a good-bye.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Tomorrow War Is Just As Stupid As It Needs to BeIt’s Edge of Tomorrow meets Interstellar meets Aliens meets Independence Day, with their brains removed. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Forever Purge Finally Gives Up on AmericaThe franchise used to consider the innate awfulness of humans as a controversial notion. Not anymore.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Zola the Movie Is a Chillier Exploration of Trauma Than the Tweets We All ReadJanicza Bravo and co-writer Jeremy O. Harris’s retelling is not exactly the wild romp of the viral thread it’s based on.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Hulu’s False Positive Isn’t Quite Horror, But It Will Freak You OutIlana Glazer and John Lee’s fertility thriller needs to gestate a little more.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Ice Road Is Somehow Both Really Smart and Really StupidIt starts off as one kind of Liam Neeson movie and then becomes another kind of Liam Neeson movie.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    F9 Brings an Improbably Good Gearhead Daddy-Issues Opera HomeCinéma, it lives.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Review: Pixar’s Luca Is a Literal Fish-Out-of-Water FantasyThough charming and vibrant, the new Disney film aspires for greater meaning that it doesn’t always reach.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Bleak, Beautiful Holler Marks the Arrival of a Major New TalentNicole Riegel’s suspenseful Rust Belt drama might seem familiar, but don’t be surprised if it astonishes you.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Ramshackle Dreams Make In the Heights a Believable FairytaleUncertainty, humanity, and fantasy turn this Broadway adaptation into a show-stopper.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Mark Wahlberg’s Reincarnation Movie Infinite Needs a Few More Lifetimes of WorkSuch a high-concept action movie, so little imagination.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Undine Is a Perplexing Take on the Mermaid MythThe new film from the Phoenix director Christian Petzold is hard to shake off, even if it also never really comes together.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Should Have Stuck to the Haunted HousesThe Patrick Wilson–Vera Farmiga horror franchise tries to depart from its previous format, with some seriously mixed results.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Cruella Is the Girl-Bossification of the MadwomanCruella takes one of the richest narrative archetypes and whittles her down into a glossy, hollow, capitalism-approved monster.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    A Quiet Place Part II Will Turn You Into a Nervous WreckBut in a good way.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Dry Is a Mystery You Might Find Hard to ShakeEric Bana is spectacular in this thriller that never lets up on the grief.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Profile Captures the Anxiety of Our All-Digital Lives, But Is That a Good Thing?Come for the ISIS recruitment exposé, stay for the social-media nightmare.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Woman in the Window Is a Trashy Movie Trying to Be a Classy OneThe Amy Adams thriller would be better off embracing its true self.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Those Who Wish Me Dead Is a Straight Shot of AdrenalineThe neo-Western-inflected work is striking in its aesthetic decisions. And it proves once more why Angelina Jolie is a star.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Chris Rock and a Game Cast Can’t Quite Save Spiral: From the Book of SawIt’s more a tired cops-chase-a-serial-killer movie than a tired Saw sequel.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Oxygen Feels Like Something the Netflix Algorithm Vomited UpIn that sense, it’s fine?
    By Alison Willmore
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    Army of the Dead Is a Tale of Two Zack SnydersHis Netflix Vegas-heist movie set during a zombie apocalypse, starring Dave Bautista, starts off great, but the fun doesn’t last.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Abysmal Wrath of Man Proves Guy Ritchie Is His Own Worst EnemyHow do you mess up a Jason Statham revenge thriller?
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Fear Not, Here Today Is Not a Billy Crystal-Tiffany Haddish Romantic ComedyBut you get the feeling that Crystal kind of wanted it to be?
    By Alison Willmore
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    Ben Sharrock’s Limbo Is Halfway to HeavenA deportation gives the film a seam down the middle between handsome but coy and messy but fierce.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Mitchells vs. the Machines Should Be Insufferable. Alas, It’s Delightful.It is both a takedown and a celebration of our dissonant, tech-obsessed world. Also, Danny McBride fights a toaster.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Mortal Kombat Is Hollywood’s Latest Disappointing Action FilmIt’s another reminder that filmmakers have forgotten what to do with the human body.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    About Endlessness Gloriously Collages the Absurdity and Grandeur of the EverydayThe sixth feature from Swedish director Roy Andersson finds connections between armies marching in the snow and girls dancing to music from a café.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Without Remorse Is Also Without a Single Moment of ExcitementHow is this Michael B. Jordan action movie, which is headed to Amazon, so dreary?
    By Alison Willmore
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    Netflix’s Space Thriller Stowaway Is Sometimes Confusing, Never BoringToni Collette, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, and Shamier Anderson keep this sci-fi suspenser admirably grounded.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Here’s a Movie About a Pig That Might Change Your LifeExecutive produced by Joaquin Phoenix, Viktor Kossakovsky’s powerful Gunda doesn’t try to make its animals human. It lets them be themselves.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Sesame Street Doc Street Gang Is About When TV Needed To Be Saved From ItselfThe documentary, which celebrates the formative years of the iconic kids’ show, is also a testament to the singular forces that allowed it to happen.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Sebastian Stan Makes Monday a Movie Worth Waking Up ForThe actor and costar Denise Gough give it their all.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    In the Earth Is a Slapdash Wilderness Horror Story for the Age of COVIDThe new horror film from Ben Wheatley, made quietly and quickly last year, evokes the pandemic but can’t figure out what to say about it.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Melissa McCarthy Can’t Save the Day, or the Studio Comedy, in Thunder ForceThe Netflix spoof, which co-stars Octavia Spencer and Jason Bateman, doesn’t make its superhero buddy antics work.
    By Alison Willmore
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    You Get One Guess As to What The Man Who Sold His Skin Is AboutTunisia’s Best International Feature Oscar nominee isn’t very subtle, but that’s not a bad thing.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Voyagers Is Just Lord of the Flies in SpaceDon’t be fooled by sexy marketing material — the new sci-fi film is really just a predictable, tedious drag.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Slalom Is a Portrait of Abuse That Denies Easy AnswersA lovely, disturbing film set in the world of competitive skiing, from French director Charlène Favier.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The First Cinematic Masterpiece of 2021 Is HereMade in the small African nation of Lesotho, This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is adventurous, essential viewing.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    If Only the Rest of French Exit Were As Good As Michelle Pfeiffer’s PerformancePfeiffer is delightful and overwhelming as a mordant Manhattan socialite searching for an ending in a depressive farce that never really gets going.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Shiva Baby Is a Symphony in StressStar Rachel Sennott delivers a masterclass in making an audience sweat.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Godzilla vs. Kong Is Heart-Stoppingly Stupid But Sporadically EntertainingWhatever. King Kong has a magic axe now. Enjoy!
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Netflix’s Bad Trip Might Help You Feel Better About Our Broken NationEither that, or it will annoy the sh*t out of you.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Nobody Is Just Good Enough Thanks to Bob OdenkirkThe movie may be an unapologetic John Wick knockoff, but the comedian and actor makes for a compelling newcomer to the middle-aged action hero club.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Six Minutes to Midnight Runs Out the ClockEddie Izzard’s new period thriller about a 1930s finishing school for the daughters of the German High Command comes up short on all fronts.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Courier Is an Old-Fashioned Spy Thriller Elevated by Two Great PerformancesBenedict Cumberbatch and Merab Ninidze are terrific in this based-on-fact tale of the Cold War.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Snyder Cut Contains the Best and Worst of Zack SnyderThis is an undeniably passionate and moving work. But you may not want to endure it in one sitting.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Think of Netflix’s Sentinelle As John Wick on the RivieraDon’t let this hidden Netflix action gem slip through the cracks this weekend.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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