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    Mia Goth Will Almost Convince You MaXXXine Has Something to SayFor that, the girl deserves an Oscar.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Furiosa Isn’t Trying to Make the Apocalypse Look CoolGeorge Miller’s Fury Road sequel is a thrill, but also bleaker and more fantastical than you might expect.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    A Movie About Being Cool Shouldn’t Be This UptightHow is The Bikeriders, a movie in which Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and Tom Hardy are a biker love triangle, so emotionally constipated?
    By Alison Willmore
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    Janet Planet Will Grow on YouAnnie Baker’s coming-of-age film features a career-best performance from Julianne Nicholson as a crunchy single mom living in Western Massachusetts.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Sicko Yorgos Is BackYorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness delights and luxuriates in absurdity and abasement. He’s fully back in his sandbox.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    You’ll Never Forget the Things You See in Green BorderAgnieszka Holland’s award-winning epic refugee drama is a riveting, devastating piece of work.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Thelma Gives 94-Year-Old June Squibb the Role of a LifetimeJosh Margolin’s Sundance comedy, about an elderly woman on a quest to find the crooks who scammed her, never feels lazy, cheap, or cruel.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Ultraman: Rising Is What We Call a Parents’ MovieUltraman: Rising’s canniest trick is the way it sustains narrative momentum while staying true to the realities of new parenthood.
    By Eric Vilas-Boas
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    A Regal, Repugnant Jude Law Almost Saves FirebrandHe seems to be the only one on the right wavelength for this heated, fictionalized take on Katherine Parr, the last wife of King Henry VIII.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Monkey Man Is a Solid Action Thriller, But It Clearly Wants to Be MoreDev Patel’s directorial debut has amazing fight scenes, but it also overdoses on religious imagery and mythical overtones.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Read Only the First Paragraph of This Ghostlight ReviewSometimes, a movie is too delicate and beautiful to know too much about it going in.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Ava DuVernay’s Origin Devastates Its AudienceThe new Ava DuVernay film is both essay and melodrama, though neither description quite does it justice.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    These Bad Boys Sequels Need More Gonzo Action SpectacleIn Ride or Die, Martin Lawrence does a nice job vigorously slapping Will Smith a few times. But where are the over-the-top set pieces?
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Watchers Squanders Its Creepy PremiseM. Night Shyamalan’s daughter makes her directorial debut with a horror movie about reality TV and the strange creatures that watch it.
    By Alison Willmore
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    If Glen Powell’s Not Already a Star, This Movie Will Make Him OneRichard Linklater’s Hit Man is a genuinely fresh and surprisingly gentle addition to the assassin genre.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Robot Dreams Is a Good Robot Movie and a Great New York MoviePablo Berger’s Oscar-nominated animated fable is an enchanting tale of friendship against a changing city.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Behold, an Actually Good Omen MovieThe First Omen is surprisingly topical, reflecting back societal fears in the form of genre thrills.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    We’ll All Soon Be Talking About the Absurdist On Becoming a Guinea FowlThe Cannes prizewinner will soon be released in the U.S. by A24. Its off-kilter, absurdist vibe is enchanting, but it’s rooted in deep horror.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Not Even Jennifer Lopez Seems to Know What Atlas Is Meant to BeThe Netflix original is neither a serious action flick nor a B movie. It’s just a slick, textureless attempt to assure you that AI is your friend.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Best Movie at Cannes This Year Is an Oddball Canadian ComedyMatthew Rankin’s Universal Language feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope Is As Beguiling As It Is AlienatingOnly Sorrentino could pull off something like this.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Fall Guy Is a Funny, Romantic, Stunt-Filled DelightRyan Gosling and Emily Blunt have terrific chemistry in this action-packed movie adaptation of the hit 1980s TV series.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Dune: Part Two Is Zendaya’s MovieAnd it’s a really good one.
    By Alison Willmore
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    If Only David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds Weren’t So LifelessThere’s adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas. But none of it really fits together.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    We’ll Be Yelling About Emilia Pérez for a Long Time to ComeThere are many who seem to love the movie, and the ones who hate it really hate it.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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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.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Babes Revels in the Grossness of PregnancyBut the Michelle Buteau and Ilana Glazer comedy is better when it’s focused on their characters’ bittersweet friendship.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Amy Winehouse Movie Doesn’t Like Amy Winehouse Very MuchWhy is Back to Black so bent on absolving the men in the troubled singer’s orbit?
    By Alison Willmore
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    Unfortunately, Madame Web Is Bad in a Boring WayDakota Johnson seems to give up halfway through this superhero movie, which drags through the middle and is inept by the end.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Iron Claw Should Be Even SadderZac Efron, Harris Dickinson, and Jeremy Allen White star in the story of a tragic wrestling family that holds its subjects at arm’s length.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Lacks the Power of Its PredecessorsThe apes look amazing, and this franchise still has a lot on its mind.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Harmony Korine’s New Anti-Movie Aggro Dr1ft Looks Cool For a Few MinutesThe night-vision hit-man feature starring Jordi Molla and Travis Scott is a unique exercise in tedium.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Gasoline Rainbow Bottles the Feeling of Being 18 AgainMostly in a good way.
    By Alison Willmore
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    How Do You Know When the World Is Over?Beneath the modest surfaces of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist runs an undercurrent of personal and ecological apocalypse.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Idea of You Is a Mostly Not-Guilty PleasureAnne Hathaway is just terrific as a 40-year-old woman swept up by a romance with a boy-bander.
    By Alison Willmore
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    It’s Desire vs. Domination in the Intensely Erotic FemmeThe razor’s edge between pleasure and pain gives this transgressive thriller its potency.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    The Bone-Chilling Infested Is Spiders All the Way DownThe first time an army of tiny spider-babies appeared, my body bent into a shape it has never taken before or since.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Anyone But You Has More Sex on Its Mind Than Your Average Rom-ComMovies keep trying to bring back the romantic comedy. This Glen Powell–Sydney Sweeney vehicle might actually bring back the sex comedy instead.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    An Exploited Neighborhood, Seen Through Children’s EyesMinhal Baig’s We Grown Now tells the story of two childhood best friends in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Challengers Is Almost a Sexy MovieJust like it’s almost a good tennis film, and almost the mature starring role Zendaya needed.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Zack Snyder’s Screensaver Space Opera Comes to an Uneventful EndRebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver is a dream fulfilled for Snyder but one that ultimately isn’t that ambitious.
    By Alison Willmore
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    What If We Didn’t Know Abigail Was a Vampire Movie?Oh, sorry, did I just ruin it?
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    David Dastmalchian Deserves to Be a StarAs a beleaguered talk-show host, he carries the new horror film Late Night With the Devil.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Guy Ritchie Goes Brutally PoshThe purveyor of British gangster sagas goes upscale for his Inglourious Basterds knockoff, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Drive-Away Dolls Is Just Fizzy EnoughMargaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan star in a lesbian road-trip comedy that will mostly remind you of better movies.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Pedro Almodóvar’s Queer Cowboy Short Is Too Sumptuous for Its Own GoodIt’s a gorgeous but unsatisfying sketch of a thing.
    By Alison Willmore
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    I’m Glad Everyone Had Such a Good Time Making Sasquatch SunsetIf only there were more reason to actually watch the movie they made.
    By Alison Willmore
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    With The Old Oak, Ken Loach Goes Out on a Hopeful NoteIn the director’s final film, the people of a dying English town and a group of Syrian refugees discover they have more in common than they realize.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    There’s Really Nothing Else Like The BeastLéa Seydoux and George MacKay are doomed lovers over three lifetimes in Bertrand Bonello’s haunting movie.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Little Things, Big ProblemsTurns out Denzel Washington crime dramas can sometimes be bad, too.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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