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Mar 07, 2021
Vanessa Kirby is utterly magnetic in director Mona Fastvold's 19-century historical drama focused on the desire between women
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Mar 05, 2021
An attempt to start a film franchise out of Patrick Ness's YA sci-fi books — about a planet where everyone hears your thoughts — falls flat on its face its first time out
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Mar 04, 2021
The 'Fresh Off the Boat' writer's directorial debut turns a typical hoops tale into something chewier, deeper and personal
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Mar 04, 2021
Not quite a sequel, nor a remake, the movie reunites Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall with the rest of the gang — as well as fantastic new faces — for a welcome Eighties update
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Mar 04, 2021
The Mouse House's latest animated feature throws a female hero's journey into a fantasy-action blockbuster blender — yet works best as a buddy comedy
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Mar 04, 2021
The Mouse House's latest animated feature throws a female hero's journey into a fantasy-action blockbuster blender — yet works best as a buddy comedy
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Mar 03, 2021
Netflix documentary focuses on the environment that created the Notorious B.I.G. and the people whose lives he touched
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Feb 26, 2021
Directed by Lee Daniels, the movie stars Andra Day as the titular Lady Day and tells the story of Holiday's life in the wake of "Strange Fruit"
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Feb 26, 2021
Feline gets outsmarted by rodent. Human actors collect checks. An intellectual property gets dragged out one more time. What do you need, a road map?
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Feb 25, 2021
The cruelty, confusion, and conflicts are on full display in this moving and memorable movie about aging
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Feb 25, 2021
A former Hasid agrees to watch over a recently deceased member of the community — and who may have been haunted — in this subculturally specific supernatural thriller
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Feb 24, 2021
Shatara Michelle Ford's debut is stunning in its examination of blackness, whiteness, gender, and class
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Feb 24, 2021
Shatara Michelle Ford's debut is stunning in its examination of blackness, whiteness, gender, and class
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Feb 19, 2021
A withering lesson in the art of the steal
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Feb 19, 2021
By focusing on two sides of the singer — the artist and the activist — the film shows what musicians can be capable of if they believe in their message
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Feb 18, 2021
Harry Macqueen's film contains remarkable wise moments between a longtime gay couple — even if it smooths over some of the pricklier parts of their relationship
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Feb 18, 2021
Harry Macqueen's film contains remarkable wise moments between a longtime gay couple — even if it smooths over some of the pricklier parts of their relationship
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Feb 16, 2021
An adaptation of a Guantanamo prisoner's memoir splits its time between legal drama and P.O.W. survivalist tale — and gives you one first-rate performance
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Feb 12, 2021
This political film — starring Lakeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya — shouldn't be mistaken for history but it will most certainly educate a new cohort about the Black Panthers
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Feb 12, 2021
Latest comedy from the brains behind 'Bridesmaids' feels like a feature-length sketch devoted to two imaginary 'SNL' characters, sans the laughs
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Feb 11, 2021
Azazel Jacobs' eccentric socialite comedy — also starring Lucas Hedges and Valerie Mahaffey — teeters on the edge of an uncertain reality
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Feb 10, 2021
Rose Glass's directorial debut follows a hospice worker who may be talking to God, or going mad — and turns a possible possession story into an emotional depth charge
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Feb 05, 2021
John David Washington and Zendaya verbally duke it out in this long, tortured thesis statement of a movie
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Jan 29, 2021
Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto turn a cat-and-mouse crime thriller into a surprisingly satisfying slice of pulp
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Jan 28, 2021
This Netflix period drama — in which Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes unearth buried artifacts as World War II looms on the horizon — is a throwback in more ways than one
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Jan 23, 2021
The film restricts itself to a vacuum of post-war experience — providing glimpses of attempts at healing
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Jan 22, 2021
Writer-director Ramin Bahrani's latest film feels like a leap forward — even if his focus on class-striving and survival by a figure on the margins of society remains the same
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Jan 22, 2021
A story of terminal illness, complete with tearjerking and movie stars, still manages to beat the odds and find moments of grace in its overwhelming grief
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Jan 22, 2021
This document of the meta-magician's groundbreaking show goes beyond mere "Is this your card?" trickery — and turns it something more than just a performance film
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Jan 19, 2021
By the film's end, Martin Luther King Jr. and J. Edgar Hoover — who met face-to-face only once — emerge as an inseparable American pair
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Jan 15, 2021
A doc on the massive Floridian retirement community known as "The Villages" skips the sociology— and goes straight to the good, the bad and the weird of it all
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Jan 15, 2021
The Irish actor goes full metal Eastwood in this Western-flavored "Action Movie Dad" thriller
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Jan 14, 2021
Regina King's directorial debut speculates on what happened between four icons during a historical get-together in 1965 — and delivers a great showcase for its actors
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Jan 14, 2021
Doug Liman's guerilla project uses a real-life pandemic as background for a rom-com heist movie — and a display of movie-star chemistry
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Jan 08, 2021
Vanessa Kirby's go-for-broke performance turns this drama of mourning and healing into something close to transcendent
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Dec 31, 2020
Chloë Grace Moretz is a WWII pilot with a mysterious package, a misogynistic flight crew and a monster on the wing in this frantic genre mash-up
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Dec 24, 2020
Tom Hanks, the Henry Fonda of our moment, clears the hurdles in director Paul Greengrass' movie set in post-Civil War America
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Dec 24, 2020
in Emerald Fennell's directorial debut, which skewers rape culture, no innocent bystanders are allowed
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Dec 24, 2020
A gorgeous throwback to 1950s and '60s melodramas gives the actor a plum role and stakes a claim in the bygone genre
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Dec 23, 2020
The final film in the five-part 'Small Axe' series explores the humiliations of the system for minorities and immigrants
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Dec 23, 2020
If only George Clooney, the director, could allow himself to get ridiculous and have a little more fun
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Dec 23, 2020
Pixar's latest is a buddy comedy — featuring a frustrated musician and a "soul" waiting to be born — a touchy-feely philosophical treatise, and a bit of follow-your-bliss existentialism for the whole family
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Dec 15, 2020
The villainy represented here indeed feels Eighties: A dark riff on entrepreneurial self-help-y logic in its most bastard state
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Dec 14, 2020
The film follows the protagonist as he learns to get in touch with his roots as a young black man born of Jamaican parents
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Dec 14, 2020
Steven Soderbergh remains playfully unorthodox in his latest entertainment
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Dec 11, 2020
A story of an immigrant starting a new life with his wife and daughter in America becomes an intimate, indelible three-way character study
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Dec 11, 2020
Filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung's look back at growing up as a Korean-American in 1980s Arkansas is the sort of coming-of-age film that turns the personal in to the universal
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Dec 10, 2020
Rachel Brosnahan is the wife of a thief who's forced to go on the run with her child in this intriguing spin on pulp crime dramas
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Dec 09, 2020
An all-star adaptation of a beloved Broadway musical about intolerant red-staters vs. self-involved theater divas hits all of the wrong notes
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Dec 05, 2020
The third film in his pentalogy stars John Boyega as a representation of frustrated, upstanding, rational black masculinity
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Dec 04, 2020
Frances McDormand is a 21st century migrant wandering from job to job among fellow real-life travelers in Chloé Zhao's extraordinary docu-fiction drama
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Dec 04, 2020
Julian Temple's portrait of the Pogues singer is a rambling, messy, wild, sad and inspirational doc — in other words, a fine tribute to its subject
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Nov 28, 2020
The second chapter of the five-film Small Axe, in which Steve McQueen attempts to excavate glimpses of black British life from the Sixties through the Eighties, is rooted in reggae
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Nov 28, 2020
An exhaustive new documentary on Frank Zappa offers up a portrait of an artist as a walking contradiction
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Nov 25, 2020
George C. Wolfe's screen adaption of the seminal August Wilson play also stars a stunning Chadwick Boseman, in his final film role, as ambitious horn player Levee
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Nov 25, 2020
A what-if look at David Bowie's brief tour of America at a pivotal, pre-Ziggy point in his career is a textbook case of how not to make a rock movie
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Nov 23, 2020
A fire at a Bucharest nightclub kicks off an investigation into deep systematic rot in this nonfiction procedural-cum-masterpiece
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Nov 20, 2020
The director's 'Small Axe' series focuses on the black British experience — and the first of five is now streaming on Amazon Prime
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Nov 20, 2020
For her directorial debut, Clea DuVall adds a dose of gay anxiety to the familiar straight Christmas family fare
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Nov 17, 2020
Thriller about a sickly young woman — and her loving and extremely suspicious mother — is one empty exercise in maternity-run-amuck camp
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Nov 16, 2020
Story of a drummer navigating life after deafness immerses you in a noiseless world — but it's the star that makes it speak volumes loudly and clearly
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Nov 13, 2020
Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin's cringe comedy about a toxic but enduring male friendship is hilarious and tragic all at once
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Nov 13, 2020
A horrorcentric take on a tried-and-true comic premise brings both scares and laughs, along with ... a first-rate Vince Vaughn performance?
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Nov 12, 2020
The director's black-and-white opus about the making of 'Citizen Kane' is a both love letter to cinema and a timely cautionary tale about power
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Nov 12, 2020
J.D. Vance's story of growing up poor gets the prestige-drama treatment — and ends up as a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing
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Nov 10, 2020
With subtle irony, the documentary reinforces the truism that politics are never simple
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Nov 10, 2020
A romance between a pioneering female paleontologist and a high-society woman fuels one passionate A-list period piece
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Nov 06, 2020
Charlie Hunnam and Jack O'Connell are two down-and-outers pinning their hopes on one last bareknuckle bout in this familiar drama
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Nov 05, 2020
Tale of a rural married couple tracking down their missing grandson gets by on a grim-corny Neo-Western vibe, courtesy of Kevin Costner and Diane Lane
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Nov 05, 2020
A female astronaut balances maternal angst and training for a mission to Mars in this intriguing (and literal) star vehicle for Eva Green
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Oct 30, 2020
A former prisoner returns to the Spanish village where he grew up — and whose forests are in danger of being destroyed — in a brilliant, evocative character study
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Oct 30, 2020
Two refugees fleeing violence find a new home in England — and some unwanted restless spirits awaiting them — in this ingenious, colonialist take on the haunted-house story
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Oct 30, 2020
An autistic boy encounters an online storybook monster who wants to be his friend — or else — in this mix of Spielbergian sentimentality and scare tactics
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Oct 28, 2020
This sequel-of-sorts to the 1996 cult classic updates the coven empowerment for a new era — but it's still a witches' brew that tastes like weak tea
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Oct 26, 2020
Tyler Taormina's teen "comedy" starts off as a recognizable high school movie before take a sharp left turn into existential dread
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Oct 26, 2020
Two paramedics stumble across a street drug with some very odd side effects — and a knack for letting users get lost in the past
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Oct 23, 2020
A look at the lead-up to a high school prom in Flint, Michigan, turns an annual event into a celebration of a place and everyday people
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Oct 22, 2020
Robert Zemeckis takes Roald Dahl's dark, macabre novel for a spin, and winds up with a lot of sound, fury, and an over-the-top Anne Hathaway
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Oct 22, 2020
Fourteen years after the comedian turned a fake foreign journalist into a cultural touchstone, his gonzo character comes back to take on Trump's America — and wins
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Oct 21, 2020
Documentary on the making of a new Bruce & the E Street Band album is part love letter, part eulogy and part joyous rock 'n' roll celebration
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Oct 21, 2020
Filmmaker Ben Wheatley's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's tale of second-wife blues is desperately in need of life support
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Oct 19, 2020
Pietro Marcello's take on Jack London's novel is the kind of movie that restores your faith in an art form — and the craft of turning words on a page into sound and vision
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Oct 16, 2020
Writer-director Aaron Sorkin brings a star-studded cast and his signature brand of fast-talking, hokey idealism to an inflection point in the counterculture movement
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Oct 16, 2020
A pitch-perfect, punk AF documentary about the formation of U.K.'s Rock Against Racism — culminating in a legendary '78 show in Victoria Park — doubles as a contemporary call to arms
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Oct 15, 2020
'Maze Runner' star Dylan O'Brien wanders a postapocalyptic wasteland — and battles two-ton killer mutant insects — for amore in this one-stop-shopping multiplex mash-up
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Oct 15, 2020
Spike Lee's concert film of the singer's Broadway show is a perfect complement to 'Stop Making Sense' — and pure bliss
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Oct 13, 2020
The action star plays a safecracker looking to go straight, until some dodgy FBI agents try to shake him down and take him down. He deserves better than this
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Oct 13, 2020
A new documentary co-directed by Alex Gibney traces how our current administration's complete mishandling of a pandemic in the U.S. turned catastrophic
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Oct 09, 2020
Writer-director Jim Cummings' follow-up to 'Thunder Road' turns an '80s horror homage into toxic-masculinity breakdown
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Oct 09, 2020
Writer, director and star Radha Blank tells a semi-autobiographical tale of a playwright stuck in an artistic rut — and boldly stakes her claim in a normally white, malecentric comic space
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Oct 09, 2020
Garrett Bradley's decades-spanning documentary on a family dealing with the impact of incarceration — told mostly through video diaries — is one of the most essential films of the year
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Oct 09, 2020
Robert De Niro's comedy about an elderly man and his grandkid engaged in escalating prank battle will make you miss the glory days of 'Little Fockers'
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Oct 08, 2020
Set against the backdrop of Baltimore's outlaw motorbike clubs, this story of a kid who falls in with the two-wheel crowd feels very familiar
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Oct 05, 2020
Kirsten Johnson's documentary about her elderly dad — in which she mock-kills him over and over — is more than a blackly comic memorial. It's a masterpiece
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Oct 02, 2020
The 'Lost in Translation' director and star reunite for a bittersweet father-daughter comedy costarring Rashida Jones and set in the Big Apple
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Oct 01, 2020
Brandon Cronenberg's cracked thriller about a mind-controlling hit women having an existential crisis is one out-of-body experience
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Sep 30, 2020
The new movie adaptation, from director Joe Mantello and producer Ryan Murphy, is packed with openly gay Hollywood stars reprising their Broadway roles
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Sep 28, 2020
Julie Taymor's high-fiber, overstuffed take on Gloria Steinem — as played by four different actors — is a slippery megillah of a biopic
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Sep 25, 2020
Independent writer-director's first film in nine years turns a tale of three grifters into a mediation on blood ties, love and failure
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Sep 24, 2020
Adaptation of Nancy Springer's YA novels featuring Sherlock's teen sibling would be a crass I.P. grab if it weren't for its subtext — and its star
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