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“The Invite” Is a Witty Relationship Comedy That Could Be Wilder
Wilde’s previous feature, the dystopian thriller “Don’t Worry Darling” (2022), was a through-the-looking-glass nightmare of…
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In “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg Replays the Hits
Margaret, following her nutty North Star wherever it leads, would have been right at home in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977),…
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“Power Ballad,” Reviewed: A Bromantic Conflict Over a Hit Song
Unbeknownst to Rick, the track, a love song, is a phenomenon, with millions of streams. It becomes a No. 1 hit, and everyone—including Aja…
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“I Love Boosters,” Reviewed: A Socialist-Surrealist Shoplifting Fantasy
As an aspiring designer herself, Corvette has a complex relationship with Christie: infuriated though she may be by Christie’s racist and…
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“The Devil Wears Prada 2” Gives the Decline of Magazines the Glossy Treatment
In “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” the offices of the fashion magazine Runway have become a moderately kinder, gentler place. Two decades after…
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“Exit 8” Is a Video-Game Adaptation That Ingeniously Subverts Its Source
The rules of this netherworld announce themselves, early on, via a nondescript wall sign. “Do not overlook any anomalies,” it says. “If…
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An Artists’ Duel Proves Restorative in “The Christophers”
Once Lori enters Julian’s home, the film springs to life. So does Soderbergh’s camera, which begins sniffing and roving about the space…
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“Project Hail Mary”: In Space, No One Should Hear Your Glib Jokes
Enter Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller), a government official with a barbed half smile and a will of iron, who drags Grace back to the world of…
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“Hoppers” Is a Happy Leap Forward for Pixar
The script is by Jesse Andrews, who co-wrote the Pixar comedy “Luca” (2021), a sunny tale of youthful self-discovery and the seemingly…
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Two New Documentaries Are Haunted by Unsettling Natural Wonders
In “Pompei: Below the Clouds,” Rosi is as quietly watchful as ever, though he is either remarkably skilled or remarkably fortunate in…
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“My Father’s Shadow” Is Intensely—Yet Obliquely—Autobiographical
Most of the movie takes place in the span of a single day, and two clocks, political and personal, seem to be ticking out of synch,…
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In “Pillion,” Gay B.D.S.M. Passions Edge Toward Dom-Com
Anchored by Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s superb performances, the British director Harry Lighton’s feature début brightens the…
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Challenging Official Histories in “Natchez” and “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
Rev displays the rhetorical power, leavened with humor and warmth, of a skilled public speaker, but many others are charismatic, too.…
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The Zealous Voyagers of “Magellan” and “The Testament of Ann Lee”
Where does such a charge leave Magellan, despoiler of every Eden he encounters? The film, to its credit, does not skimp on paradisiacal…
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“Young Mothers” Is a Gentle Gift from the Dardenne Brothers
Goodness is not hard to find in “Young Mothers.” The film is set in and around a maternity home in Liège where the staff look after their…
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“Marty Supreme” ’s Megawatt Personality
Josh Safdie’s hectic new film “Marty Supreme,” set in 1952, mainly in New York, is, essentially, “Uncut Gems” but with a happy ending.…
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“The Secret Agent” Is a Political Thriller Teeming with Life
Meanwhile, a real shark has washed ashore; the movie’s MacGuffin is a human leg found in the creature’s belly. To investigate, the city’s…
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“Hamnet” Feels Elemental, but Is It Just Highly Effective Grief Porn?
Zhao’s first three features were steeped in documentary realism, shot with a sturdy, windswept lyricism and abounding in nonprofessional…
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“Sirāt” Is a Harrowing, Exhilarating Dance of Death
The rave comes to an abrupt stop, and the story, which Laxe scripted with Santiago Fillol, takes off like a shot. Armed soldiers turn up…
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The Bad Show-Biz Dads of “Sentimental Value” and “Jay Kelly”
In new films from Joachim Trier and Noah Baumbach, success in filmmaking proves depressingly incompatible with success in fatherhood.…
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Emma Stone’s Apocalyptic Showdown Blooms in “Bugonia”
Teddy’s reasoning is a confusion of save-the-world alarmism, garden-variety derangement, unhealed trauma, and single-minded revenge. He’s…
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Nia DaCosta’s “Hedda” Shoots Straight
Wresting “Hedda Gabler” from its theatrical confines, DaCosta effects a major structural transformation with graceful ingenuity: the…
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Art and Life in Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”
Leave it to Richard Linklater to see how, in art, the fundamental things apply. In his two new movies—“Blue Moon,” about the lyricist…
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“After the Hunt” Is a Pleasurably Ludicrous House of Cards
In Luca Guadagnino’s film, Julia Roberts plays a Yale professor forced to choose sides when a student accuses a colleague of sexual…