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  1. performance review
    The Coiled Ferocity of ZendayaChallengers is the ultimate example to date of what has become a distinctively Zendaya screen energy.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    The Evolutions of Emma StoneThe Oscar-winning star of Poor Things is a master at playing characters who are only halfway out of the cocoon.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    The Thoroughly Goofy, Undeniably Seductive, All-in-One Charm of Shah Rukh KhanHe is the most versatile of today’s Bollywood action heroes, but nothing captures the complexity of his stardom like Om Shanti Om.
    By Mallika Rao
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    J.Lo’s Never-Ending Love StoryIn This Is Me … Now, she returns to her rom-com roots. Is she tired of repeating herself?
    By Allison P DAvis
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    The Heartbreaking Sincerity of Zac EfronIn The Iron Claw, Efron lays bare the only surviving Von Erich brother’s deepest wounds — and he does so by exerting the force of his own personality.
    By Beatrice Loayza
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    The Thing About Ryan GoslingHe looks like a Ken, but he’s a rarity in Hollywood: an actor who is comfortable supporting a female movie star.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    White Empathy Only Gets You So Far in Killers of the Flower MoonLily Gladstone gives a staggering performance as Mollie, but Martin Scorsese’s script is too stuck at the pitch of awe to interrogate her humanity.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  8. taking another look at two
    What Is a Bradley Cooper Film?The answer is more complicated than “a love story starring Bradley Cooper.” Sort of.
    By Fran Hoepfner
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    Mark Hamill Is Doing So Much in Fall of the House of UsherAnd it is so good.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    The Backs of a Story Say It AllPassages is the year’s strongest, sexiest acting showcase. Its best performances rely on one body part in particular.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    The 50 Most Definitive Performances in Wes Anderson’s FilmsIncluding voice performances and narrators but excluding Mordecai the falcon.
    By Joe Reid
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    Who Can Top Rachel Weisz?She’s giving the greatest performance of her career in Dead Ringers, proving Rachel Weisz’s ideal scene partner is Rachel Weisz.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    The Self-possession of Angela BassettShe has an unmatched ability to portray the interior complications and cultural reverberations of Black women’s anger — onscreen and off.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Paul Mescal Is Our Disappointment HeartthrobOther heartthrobs exude swagger or sex, but Mescal emanates something more devastating: the irresistible promise of eventually letting you down.
    By Alison Willmore
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    It Was the Would-Be Year of Jon Bernthal on TVIn his most active TV year, Bernthal did the work, whether or not people were watching.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    ‘It’s Unbelievably Difficult to Act Brilliantly’Jeremy Strong and his director James Gray took risks and made a mess to find Armageddon Time.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    What Was Brangelina?The couple were always known for their image-making savvy. Now, as their divorce reenters the press cycle, we’re reminded of who’s better at it.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Kathleen Turner Made the Modern Femme FataleShe rewrote the rules of the cinematic seductress in the 1981 erotic thriller Body Heat.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  19. chasing ben
    Ben Affleck Plays HimselfBecoming a tabloid star gave the actor his best role ever.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Erika Jayne and the Runaway NarrativeWhatever sympathy the embattled Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star might have built is buckling under the expectations of being a Housewife.
    By Louis Peitzman