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    Pedro Almodóvar’s English-Language Debut The Human Voice Is a Perfect Half-HourTilda Swinton wears gorgeous outfits and acts out in the Spanish director’s adaptation of the Jean Cocteau play.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Come True Will Haunt Your Dreams and Ruin Your NightsFun with nightmares and sleep paralysis.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Boogie Needs to Grow UpEddie Huang’s directorial debut is an Asian American coming-of-age story that could use more self-examination.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run Will Make You a Better PersonIt’s Thelma and Louise meets The Quick and the Dead meets Inception meets Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar meets Inherit the Wind.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Chaos Walking Needs More Chaos, Less WalkingTom Holland and Daisy Ridley on the run from Mads Mikkelsen and his son Nick Jonas. Why isn’t this a masterpiece?
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Coming 2 America Is Both Figuratively and Literally a Nostalgia TourYou should probably bone up on the first movie before you watch it.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Raya and the Last Dragon Is Slick and Sometimes TranscendentThe new animated movie is a wonder of world-building, strategic IP generation, and accidental timeliness.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Truffle Hunters Heads for the Hills and Returns With a Feast for the SensesEscape into a modern-day past with this documentary about Italian truffle foragers.
    By Helen Shaw
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    In Moxie, They Are Young Women, Hear Them (Nicely) RoarThe movie about a feminist uprising at a high school is well-intentioned but lacks the edgy spirit it supposedly celebrates.
    By Jen Chaney
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    The United States vs. Billie Holiday Is an Inert History LessonAndra Day is great in the title role, however.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    How Not to Make a Tom and Jerry MovieA cluttered, awkward, pandering mess.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Father Is a Devastating Close-up of a Mind That’s Beginning to FrayAnthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman are excellent as a father and daughter whose time together can only end in tragedy.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Great Performances and a Stunning Ending Can’t Quite Save The MauritanianJodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, and Benedict Cumberbatch all do good work in this real-life legal drama, but the movie falls flat.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Main Reason to Watch I Care a Lot Is Rosamund PikeThe Netflix movie wants to race along like a caper and sting like a satire. But it just winds up fighting itself.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Oof, What Are We to Do with Sia’s New Movie, Music?It’s not just controversial, it’s also quite terrible.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Louise Linton’s Sex-Cannibal Comedy Is Here, and It Is Not GoodMe You Madness is a nonstop deluge of overwritten rants and underbaked humor.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    In Minari, a Korean Family Tries to Make a Home in the HeartlandSteven Yeun heads up a deceptively gentle immigrant drama set in rural Arkansas in the 1980s.
    By Alison Willmore
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    To All The Boys: Always and Forever Burns Low and SlowThe Netflix movie’s attention to the way romantic comedies operate teaches us to watch it with our guard up.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Barb & Star Go to Vista del Mar Arrives Preordained for Cult StatusIt features Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Jamie Dornan, Damon Wayans Jr., and a sage old crab named Morgan Freemand.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Judas and the Black Messiah: When Hollywood Co-opts Radical HistoryThe movie gets neither the beauty and complications of Blackness, nor the outright depravity of white supremacy.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    A Glitch in the Matrix Is a Riveting Look at Whether Our World Is a SimulationBut it’s really about just how utterly weird life is.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Utter Emotional Inauthenticity of Netflix’s Malcolm & MarieNo one comes out of this film unscathed — including Zendaya.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Netflix’s The Dig Goes Deep on Human ExistenceRalph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan star in this surprisingly moving period drama.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Maybe Justin Timberlake Wasn’t the Right Man to Play an Angry Ex-Con in Palmer.Sometimes, having your heart in the right place isn’t enough to make a great movie.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci Are a Heartbreaking Couple in SupernovaThe longtime friends make this melancholy movie about early-onset dementia work.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Netflix’s The White Tiger Is a Brutal, Powerful Tale of Ambition and CorruptionRamin Bahrani, one of our great directors, adapts Aravind Adiga’s international best seller.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself Is a Bit of Truth and a Lot of NonsenseThe emotion in the oddly tearful mentalism-and-magic show is all manipulation, but there’s still quite a bit of loveliness to delight you.
    By Helen Shaw
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    In The Marksman, Liam Neeson Idles in PlaceHe only kicks a moderate amount of ass in this one.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Acasa, My Home Shows the Poetry and Peril of a Life Off the GridA beautiful, bittersweet documentary from Romania.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Gorgeous, Moving News of the World Features Tom Hanks at His BestA Western from the director of Captain Phillips and The Bourne Ultimatum, if you can believe that.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    In a Year Without Live Performance, Regina King’s One Night in Miami SingsThe intimate Amazon Studios film, based on a play, re-creates a historic motel-room meeting between Sam Cooke, Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Cassius Clay.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Dissident Is a Grisly Look at the Life and Death of Jamal KhashoggiIt’s a complex, damning portrait of how Saudi Arabia dealt with a citizen who turned on the regime.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    In The Midnight Sky, George Clooney the Director Fails George Clooney the ActorBut Clooney the actor almost saves Clooney the director’s butt, so there’s that.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Empty Spectacle of Wonder Woman 1984The disappointing sequel highlights not only the dire state of the live-action superhero genre, but the dire state of Hollywood filmmaking as a whole.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Fails the Woman Behind a LegendIn Netflix’s rote adaptation of August Wilson’s play, Viola Davis falters while Chadwick Boseman fares better.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Soul Is Pixar at Its Most Unpredictably WeirdAnd while the movie doesn’t always work, that part is kind of nice.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Promising Young Woman Is an Incendiary Revenge Movie With a Sugar-Sweet ShellCarey Mulligan is outrageously great as a Me Too vigilante in an unsettling first film from Emerald Fennell.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Monster Hunter Is Loud, Unapologetic FunIt’s filled with scary monsters, gnarly weapons, and terrific visual storytelling.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Greenland Might Actually Be Too EffectiveI wanted to see Gerard Butler fight a comet named Clarke. Instead, I got a real movie.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Wolfwalkers Will Charm You. Wolfwalkers Will Save You.Prepare to be astonished by this animated film from Ireland.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    We Should Probably Talk About Wild Mountain ThymeBecause WTF.
    By Alison Willmore
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    This Is an Ode to the Best Movie Ending of the YearOn the bittersweet pleasures of watching Mads Mikkelsen dance in 2020.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Steven Soderbergh and Meryl Streep Went on a Luxury Cruise and Made a Good MovieLet Them All Talk is a charming comedy that gets at some personal truths.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Netflix’s The Prom Isn’t the Party We Hoped ForLet’s just say, I think that there’s room in the universe for another attempt at putting this beloved and big-souled property on film.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Let Us Now Praise Riz Ahmed in Sound of MetalIs there an actor who is more interesting to look at these days?
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Mank Is David Fincher’s Flawed Fable About a Hollywood CynicGary Oldman plays the co-writer of Citizen Kane in a period showbiz story that could stand to go through another few drafts.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Frances McDormand Has Gone To Look For America In NomadlandDirector Chloé Zhao examines the idea of wide-open frontiers without nostalgia or the need to pathologize.
    By Alison Willmore
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    I’m Your Woman Brings a Character From the Margins of Crime Films to Its CenterThe Amazon Studios film, starring Rachel Brosnahan, seems aware of not only the genre’s masculine history but its novel possibilities.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Small Axe Is a RevelationSteve McQueen’s Lovers Rock is undoubtedly one of the most transfixing films of the year.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    It’s the Uncozy Parts of Happiest Season That Make It InterestingThe Kristen Stewart-Mackenzie Davis Christmas rom-com is at its best when it acknowledges the cruelty underscoring its holiday hijinks.
    By Alison Willmore
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