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    Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton Are Perfectly Imperfect TogetherWho could blame Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door for being more interested in its leading ladies than in contemplating death?
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    Tyler Perry’s Cosplay of a War Movie Hardly Does Its Subjects JusticeThe Six Triple Eight ends up being more about what these women endured than about what they accomplished.
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    Jim Carrey (and Jim Carrey) Elevate Sonic the Hedgehog 3These movies aren’t anything if they’re not fun, and Jim Carrey understands that better than anyone. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 gives us two of him.
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    Hollywood’s Forgotten How to Make Movies Like The Count of Monte CristoPeriod action-adventures used to be Hollywood’s thing. But we never see movies like this thrilling new French adaptation of the Dumas classic anymore.
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    The Brutalist Is Half Of A Great MovieA terrific Adrien Brody anchors this three-and-a-half-hour American saga whose ambitions end up exceeding its grasp.
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    All the Technological Wizardry in the World Can’t Save Mufasa: The Lion KingBarry Jenkins’s prequel to the 2019 “live-action” remake of the 1994 Disney animated classic leaves much to be desired.
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    It’s Everyone Around Bob Dylan That Makes A Complete Unknown Worth WatchingTimothée Chalamet is good as the enigmatic musician, but this is really a movie about what it’s like to bob around in the wake of greatness.
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    Is a Movie About Electing a Pope Allowed to Be This Entertaining?Conclave combines the pulp velocity of a great airport read with the gravitas of high drama.
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    September 5 Is Almost Nauseatingly SuspensefulWe know what happened at Munich in 1972, yet we find ourselves living through the events as if their outcome was unwritten.
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    Joker: Folie à Deux Commits the Mortal Sin of Wasting Lady GagaI mean, what are we even doing here?
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    Netflix’s Red One Will Remind You of Other, Better MoviesHonestly, the Dwayne Johnson–Chris Evans action comedy would be more interesting if it actually were a disaster.
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    Nickel Boys Is a Cinematic Experience Unlike Any OtherIn refusing a conventional, objective (and objectified) approach to suffering, director RaMell Ross resists easy attempts at pathos.
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    This Is Not Angelina Jolie’s Big ComebackHer starring role in Maria is her most ambitious in ages, and yet it feels like a snooze.
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    Kraven the Hunter Is a Bunch of Weird Guys in Search of A MovieThe origin story of a Spider-Man antagonist that, for contractual reasons, will not mention Spider-Man.
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    You’ve Seen This One BeforeThe Colleen Hoover adaptation It Ends With Us plays like an overfamiliar Lifetime movie with a lot more gloss and only slightly more grit.
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    Who Needs Gods When You Have Ralph Fiennes?His performances in The Return and Conclave demonstrate his astounding physicality.
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    Y2K Will Make You Nostalgic for a Funnier ComedySNL alum Kyle Mooney’s directorial debut is audacious in concept but pretty slapdash in execution.
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    The Order Is An Unforgettable and Disturbing Crime DramaJude Law and Nicholas Hoult face off, Heat-style, in Justin Kurzel’s cat-and-mouse epic about the hunt for domestic terrorists.
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    Thank the Cinema Gods, Mike Leigh Is BackHard Truths might be his funniest film in a long time, but as always, it’s the kind of laughter that comes with unnerving inevitabilities.
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    Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada Is the Confession of a Man Who’s Faced DeathRichard Gere and Jacob Elordi star in Paul Schrader’s latest as two versions of a dying filmmaker reckoning with a lifetime of regret.
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    Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Is More Challenging Than You Might ExpectFor such a hot movie, this Daniel Craig–starring William S. Burroughs adaptation sure feels emotionally sealed off.
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    The Seed of the Sacred Fig Is Furious, and It Wants You to Be, TooThe boldness of Iranian girls and women is the inspiration and essence of Mohammad Rasoulof’s new film.
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    What’s a Girl Gotta Do to Get Some Conflict in Moana 2?The sequel to the 2016 hit needs better songs and better bad guys.
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    Flow Is an Animal Adventure That’s Endearing and a Little Too PrettyThe Latvian animated film is a wordless survival story that lets its animals act like animals.
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    Alien: Romulus Gets the Job Done, But at What Cost?It’s a movie engineered mostly to provide basic genre thrills and keep the IP alive so the now-Disney-owned Fox can generate more Alien movies.
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    Blitz Is the Worst Movie Steve McQueen Has MadeBy any wider standard, that means that the World War II drama is still not bad at all.
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    When an American Pursues Bulgarian DreamsIn The Black Sea, Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden co-direct a lovely ode to finding one’s place even when feeling out of place.
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    Rust Didn’t Choose to Echo Its Tragedy, But It Courses Through the FilmThe finished movie is an appropriately unvarnished western, starring a lead actor visibly shaken by his experience making it.
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    Wicked Is As Enchanting As It Is ExhaustingJon M. Chu’s film adaptation of the hit musical has charm, but the bloat is inescapable.
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    ‘Some People Call It the City of Dreams, But I Don’t’Payal Kapadia’s new film, All We Imagine As Light, is a shimmering portrait of a Mumbai where everyone goes and nobody feels at home.
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    Look, I LaughedDeadpool & Wolverine isn’t particularly good. But it’s so determined to beat you down with its incessant irreverence that you might submit anyway.
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    I Hate to Say This, But Men Deserve Better Than Gladiator IIRidley Scott’s sequel might make you wonder if we’ve lost the ability to treat brawny historical epics earnestly.
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    Meanwhile, on Earth …In a moody new (mostly) live-action film from a great French animator, grief and aliens converge.
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    The Piano Lesson Can’t Quite Live Up to August Wilson’s PlayMalcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson is a worthwhile and occasionally quite moving adaptation. But it lives uncomfortably between two forms.
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    Bird Is an Endearing, Ungainly Modern-Day Fairy TaleStarring a tatted-up Barry Keoghan, the film resembles a dream director Andrea Arnold had that she only semi-successfully translated to the screen.
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    Hugh Grant Was Born to Play the VillainGrant’s been terrific in recent years as characters of questionable moral standing, but his riveting turn in Heretic is something else entirely.
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    The System Has Failed Clint EastwoodWith Juror No. 2, the director delivers a fine legal drama — but will anybody get to see it?
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    Netflix’s New Martha Stewart Documentary Makes Her More Powerful Than EverA new Netflix documentary charts the lifestyle mogul’s rise and fall (and rise) while giving us glimpses of her dark side.
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    Will the Year’s Most Powerful Documentary Ever Make It to Theaters?No Other Land, directed by a four-person Israeli-Palestinian collective, has won awards and acclaim. But no one in the U.S. wants to distribute it.
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    Here Is the Biggest Pile of Schmaltz You’ll See This YearTom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite for a movie that uses a bold formal device to incredibly hokey ends.
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    In Dahomey, Mati Diop Gives the Past a Lyrical VoiceThe new nontraditional documentary from the director of Atlantics looks at the restoration of 26 plundered artworks to Benin.
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    Your Monster Needs More Than an Outstanding Melissa BarreraThe script isn’t much, but the actress shines in this quaint little semi-musical monster-movie rom-com.
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    Venom: The Last Dance Is Bad on PurposeAnd even though Tom Hardy’s digitally enhanced hand-puppet act is fun to watch, that starts to feel insulting.
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    Union Is a Reminder That Documentaries Can Be Artful As Well As PoliticalStephen Maing and Brett Story’s film is a gorgeously made document of a labor battle against the behemoth that is Amazon.
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    Netflix’s Woman of the Hour Makes a Wild True Story Feel Dry and AcademicAnna Kendrick shows some promise as a director, and the film’s real-life serial-killer story is insane. But the whole film feels a bit too careful.
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    Rumours’ Goofy Political Satire Has a Giant Glowing BrainRumours, the latest from legendary Canadian director Guy Maddin, has a glorious B-movie sheen.
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    It’s No Wonder That Everyone Falls for AnoraSean Baker’s Anora latest is a movie about the way people look at each other, though it may not seem that way on the surface.
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    Goodrich Feels More Like a Therapy Session Than a MovieThe new film from Hallie Meyers-Shyer stars Michael Keaton as a genial bad dad.
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    Smile 2’s Ideas Are Scarier Than the Movie ItselfWhat starts off as a thoughtful thriller set in the world of pop stardom winds up mired in the usual horror-movie clichés.
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    The Lego Pharrell Movie Has a Lego Black Lives Matter SegmentSome thoughts on Piece by Piece and the dangers of committing to the bit.
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