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    Alita: Battle Angel Is Ungainly, Hokey, and … Kinda CharmingThe only reason any of this works at all is Rosa Salazar and, I hate to say it, those goddamned big eyes.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Isn’t It Romantic Is the Inception of Rom-Coms (…Sort Of)It nestles a playfully meta rom-com satire inside what appears to be another rom-com — and suggests that, maybe, such movies still have their place.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Happy Death Day 2 U Is a Madcap Sequel That Goes to Unexpected PlacesStalk-and-kill movies bear some resemblance to classic farces, but none have taken the similarities as far as Happy Death Day and its sequel.
    By David Edelstein
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    The Gospel of Eureka Is Meditative and Fabulous in Equal MeasureThe doc explores Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a Bible Belt destination where religion and queerness have become intertwined in fascinating ways.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Horror Noire Is a Lively, Essential History LessonShudder’s new documentary about the history of black people in the horror genre is a powerful reclamation project.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    In Cold Pursuit, Liam Neeson Seems Done With the Dadsploitation GenreIt’s the latest (and last?) Neeson-starring entry in the middle-aged-man-goes-on-a-killing-spree sweepstakes.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Jamie Dornan, Jemima and Lola Kirke Can’t Save UntogetherUntogether is seeking to provoke. But that’s about as racy or intimate as it gets.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    What Men Want Is a Tonally and Logically Confused Gender SwapStarring Taraji P. Henson, What Men Want is a wildly uneven stretch of a movie that’s more of a flail than a romp.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    The Prodigy Is a Cruelly Well-Made Bad-Seed Horror MovieThe Prodigy works in a low key that still somehow scrapes your nerves, so when the nasty stuff arrives, you’ve been softened up for the kill.
    By David Edelstein
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    To Dust Is a Good, Slightly Cringeworthy Comedy About a Decomposing CorpseIt has a sicko premise, but scrupulously sicko.
    By David Edelstein
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    Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem Shine in Soapy-Yet-Substantial Everybody KnowsThe Oscar-winning Asghar Farhadi changes locales to the picturesque wine country outside Madrid for his foray into Spanish-language cinema.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part Is Eager to Grow Up in More Ways Than OneThe childlike, free-associative playfulness is now underscored by a palpable hunger to be the cleverest and coolest kids’ movie on the block.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Steven Soderbergh’s High Flying Bird Is Compelling Despite Its Narrative FlawsThe storytelling is unshapely — there are plot gaps and it never locks into a rhythm — but the film has a sense of mournfulness that seeps into you.
    By David Edelstein
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    Look Away From Never Look AwayIt’s objectively unfair to be harder on a clunky film that has been nominated for an Oscar than one that few will see, but objectivity is overvalued.
    By David Edelstein
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    Piercing Is Designed to Get Under Your SkinNicolas Pesce’s latest, starring Mia Wasikowska and Christopher Abbott, is alternately alluring and repellent.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Arctic Is Grim, But Worth WatchingJoe Penna’s film made me feel less prone to complain about the polar vortex.
    By David Edelstein
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    Miss Bala Isn’t Quite the Clunker It’s Been Made Out to BeThe souped-up plot is certainly indigestible, and there’s a steady stream of bad laughs, but something genuinely frightening comes through.
    By David Edelstein
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    Sundance Standout We Are Little Zombies Is a Neon-Colored Scream Into the AbyssThe RPG-inspired debut feature from Makoto Nagahisa is the best Sundance movie about grief since Manchester by the Sea.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Godard’s Film Collage The Image Book Is Like a Window Into His Bitter SoulIf this turns out to be his final statement (he’s 87), it’s an appropriately ragged one, half-formed but gesturing toward meaning. Every edge bleeds.
    By David Edelstein
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    Sweetheart Is a Diamond-Sharp, No-Nonsense Survival ThrillerKiersey Clemons stars in J.D. Dillard’s no-frills, all-thrills film as a woman who washes up on a desert island and encounters … something.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Lodge Is an Unsettling Up-Is-Down Horror TaleRiley Keough plays a survivor of a death cult in the new film from the directors of Goodnight Mommy.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Velvet Buzzsaw Is a Pleasantly Perverse Art-World EviscerationJake Gyllenhaal reteams with Nightcrawler writer-director Dan Gilroy for a Los Angeles horror-satire that has no use for subtlety.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    The Kid Who Would Be King Is a Charming ThrowbackIt’s the kind of expansive live-action adventure tale that we rarely see these days.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Serenity Is Bad — But There’s Some Method to Its BadnessWriter-director Steven Knight has set himself a very weird task and held firm.
    By David Edelstein
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    King of Thieves Wastes Its Once-in-a-Lifetime CastI kept wishing James Marsh would just drop the not-particularly-interesting plot and let these god-level geezers go off on one another.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Polar Is Putrid, Soulless, and Worst of All, StaleJonas Åkerlund’s latest is a sad, lint-filled key bump scraped together from the bottom of the post-Tarantino ’90s exploitation baggie.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    The Standoff at Sparrow Creek Is a Memorable Feature Directing DebutIt’s an effective little thriller whose occasional flaws come mostly as a result of its considerable virtues, so you roll with it.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    An Acceptable Loss Is a So-so Thriller, But Jamie Lee Curtis Is FascinatingIt has its moments.
    By David Edelstein
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    M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass Congeals on the ScreenOh, these poor actors.
    By David Edelstein
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    Buffalo Boys Is a Spaghetti-Western Revenge Story With a Good Bloody PayoffThis is one of those vengeance movies where the audience waits impatiently for the bad guys to get it so it really, really, really hurts. And they do.
    By David Edelstein
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    Replicas Can’t Even Succeed at Being Fun TrashKeanu Reeves’s latest would be the stuff of future cult screenings if it wasn’t so boring and muddled.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Perfect Strangers Is a Comedy About Cell Phone Secrets That Mostly WorksAt a dinner party for old friends, the guests decide on a dumb whim to place their cell phones on the table and share every text or call.
    By David Edelstein
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    The Upside Is an Odd-Couple Cliché With a More Interesting Movie Hiding InsideStarring Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, and Nicole Kidman, The Upside is the kind of movie whose greatest virtue is that it’s not as bad as it could be.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    The Vanishing Is a Phenomenally Well-Made ThrillerYou’ll never want to go in a lighthouse again.
    By David Edelstein
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    State Like Sleep Starts Strong, But the Payoff Is Criminally UnsatisfyingIt’s good enough to make you wish it were better, less slack, more resolved.
    By David Edelstein
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    American Hangman Is a Cheap, Dumb, Off-Brand Black Mirror EpisodeIt’s college-level death penalty discourse, appropriately armed with what appears to be a college-level production budget.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Rust Creek Is a Thriller With a Surprising Streak of HumanismFrom the start, it’s clear director Jen McGowan will be putting her heroine through hell while protecting her from degradation.
    By David Edelstein
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    Escape Room Is a Tight, Thoroughly Fun ThrillerA smart script and clever art direction elevate the puzzle-obsessed not-quite-horror movie.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Holmes & Watson Doesn’t Make It Easy, But There’s Fun to Be HadThe movie’s climactic musical number is positively award-worthy. It alone is worth enduring the opening slog.
    By David Edelstein
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    Stan & Ollie Is a Synthetic But Sweet Biopic of Two Born EntertainersIt’s also extremely sweaty.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Bird Box Wasn’t Written by an Algorithm — But It Sure Feels Like It WasYou don’t appreciate the art of a good genre contrivance until you see one pulled off poorly.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    On the Basis of Sex Plays Like a Rocky Movie, But It WorksThe Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic hits its marks with the subtlety of a legal brief. But that’s not fatal.
    By David Edelstein
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    The American Meme Is an Entertaining Missed OpportunityThe internet celebrity doc can be fun, even informative, but there’s a bigger story here, and Bert Marcus mostly fails to tell it.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Destroyer Is Deliberately FrustratingBut Nicole Kidman’s performance as this broken, obsessed woman is powerful.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Second Act Is a Strange, Scattered Attempt to Cash In on NostalgiaIn some ways, Jennifer Lopez’s latest embodies all the ways in which the mainstream “women’s comedy” is having an identity crisis right now.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Welcome to Marwen Is a Totally Confounding MovieRobert Zemeckis’s film fails to capture what’s interesting about Mark Hogancamp’s art.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Bumblebee Is a Surprisingly Restrained, Modest Transformers MovieBut in the end, I found myself missing the gonzo, go-for-broke bravado of the earlier movies — we’re all still here for the exploding robots.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Cold War Is a Stunning Love StoryPawel Pawlikowski’s follow up to the Oscar-winning Ida is a passionate heartbreaker told through music and across decades.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    American Renegades Is a Bit of a SlogBut there’s something pleasantly old-fashioned about the military-heist adventure, set during the Bosnian war.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Vice Is Gimmicky, But Christian Bale’s Dick Cheney Impersonation Is Spot-onAdam McKay has devised a rollicking comic style for what amounts to an anti-hagiography, a scabrous portrait of Dick Cheney the Unholy One.
    By David Edelstein
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