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    Materialists Is an Inert Misreading of Modern RomanceCeline Song’s latest romantic film seeks to be both a frothy fantasy and a treatise on the nature of modern love. It fails at both.
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    Jack Black and Jason Momoa Make A Minecraft Movie a Comic DelightIt feels like a small miracle that this video-game adaptation is so funny, lively, and light on its feet.
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    Familiar Touch Is an Infinitely Tender Movie About DementiaKathleen Chalfant is astonishing as a woman who moves to a care facility after she is no longer able to live alone.
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    28 Years Later Is Totally NutsAnd not necessarily in a bad way.
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    Elio Has Trouble Getting Out of Its Own HeadPixar’s latest is a movie about learning we’re not alone in the universe that nevertheless has trouble opening up its main character.
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    Plane
    Plane GoodPlane is a movie for your lizard brain — the part of you that craves basic sensations. The part that expresses itself in grunts.
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    Finally, a Live-Action Remake That Doesn’t Feel PointlessThe new version of How to Train Your Dragon sticks closely to the original. But human actors and real locations give it real weight and spectacle.
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    Meeting With Pol Pot Explores How Ideology Can Curdle Into EvilRithy Panh’s historical drama follows three French journalists attempting to interview the Khmer Rouge leader at the height of the Cambodian genocide.
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    Echo Valley Isn’t Good Enough to Be a Prestige ThrillerBut the Apple TV+ film, which stars Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney, is also too glossy and ambitious to just be streaming schlock.
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    Questlove’s Sly Lives! Is a Revealing Portrait of the Hazards of GeniusYou finish watching Sly Lives! feeling like you’ve genuinely learned something, but you also feel exhilarated.
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    Don’t Be Surprised If The Life of Chuck Breaks YouThis Stephen King adaptation is not like most other Stephen King adaptations.
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    Dogma Is Still the Best Movie Kevin Smith Ever MadeSure, it’s chatty, casual, inelegant, and doesn’t make much sense. But it’s also sincere, charming, and extremely funny.
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    Ballerina’s Second Half Does John Wick ProudUnfortunately, the first half of the Ana de Armas spinoff blows, but it’s worth sticking around for what comes later.
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    In Mountainhead, the Rich Eat UsThere’s no catharsis to be found in the new satire from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong.
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    Ben Wang in Columbia Pictures KARATE KID: LEGENDS
    Karate Kid: Legends Is Empty, Lazy Nostalgia-BaitEven the sight of Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan together isn’t enough to give this montage-happy legacyquel any personality.
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    It’s a Lot of Fun to Watch Sally Hawkins Go EvilThe actress both powers and unbalances Bring Her Back, the Philippou brothers’ messy, ambitious follow-up to Talk To Me.
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    Marvel Is Now a Giant Slop MachineThe messy and tiresome Captain America: Brave New World has a few ideas, but it handles them in the most shallow, simplistic ways.
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    See Pig and Tremble Before Your Own MortalityLet Nicolas Cage illuminate the way.
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    Jennifer Lawrence Gets to Act Her Age in Die, My LoveLynne Ramsay’s postpartum phantasmagoria doesn’t go somewhere so much as it runs right off a cliff, and it’s Lawrence who holds its pieces together.
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    Honey Don’t! Is Only Worth Watching For the Sexual SwaggerThe latest “lesbian B-movie” from Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke doesn’t have a lot else going on.
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    Josh O’Connor Is at His Hangdog Dirtbag Best in The MastermindKelly Reichardt’s wonderful new movie features O’Connor’s best performance to date.
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    Jane Austen Wrecked My Life Is From a Different CenturyWe mean that in the best possible way.
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    The Sublime Sentimental Value Is the Toast of This Year’s Cannes Film FestivalJoachim Trier reunites with his The Worst Person In The World star Renate Reinsve for a filigree delicate drama about family, art, and trauma.
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    Alpha Is a Striking Mess of a MovieJulia Ducournau’s follow-up to Titane is eerie, disturbing, and not terribly coherent.
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    Maybe a Live-Action Lilo & Stitch Remake Wasn’t Such a Great IdeaThe beloved 2002 Disney animated classic is a one-of-a-kind wonder. This live-action remake feels like a shrill, soulless imitation.
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    Highest 2 Lowest Is All the Best and Worst of Spike LeeSpike Lee reunites with Denzel Washington for a movie that starts off a mess and ends up somewhere great.
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    The Nutty, Colorful, and Moving Sister Midnight Is Well Worth SeeingKaran Kandhari’s feature directing debut has style to burn and even some genre-inflected twists, but it still remains grounded in human drama.
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    Alexander Skarsgård Does a Lot Without Words in This Salty-Sweet BDSM RomancePillion, which just premiered at Cannes, is an unexpectedly sweet movie about a young man meeting the leather daddy of his dreams.
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    The Phoenician Scheme Misses the Big PictureWhile Wes Anderson’s attention to detail remains unparalleled, he seems to have lost the plot.
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    Nouvelle Vague Makes a Case for the Ambition of YouthRichard Linklater’s new movie, about the making of Breathless, isn’t about nostalgia — it’s about how being brash can yield great art.
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    Ari Aster’s Eddington Is Bracingly Nasty and Unsure of What It’s Trying to SayThe Midsommar director turns to a small town during the pandemic for a darkly funny depiction of how the pandemic broke our brains.
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    Final Destination: Bloodlines Confidently Revives the Best Horror-Film FranchiseIn Final Destination, Death works with the great canvas of ordinary life. That’s what makes these movies special, and the latest entry knows it.
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    Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning Is a Huge Mess. But It’s a Fun Mess.Sometimes it feels like they’re still not done editing The Final Reckoning. Sometimes it feels like they’re still not done shooting it.
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    We May Have Already Seen the Best Film at Cannes This YearThe ambitious Sound of Falling kicks off the competition by setting a high-water mark that will be hard for another film to reach.
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    Introducing the Most Tim Robinson of Tim Robinson CharactersThe new movie Friendship plays like a low-stakes platonic variation on an erotic thriller, a worthy first big-screen starring role for the comedian.
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    Caught by the Tides Is an Epic Built From ScrapsJia Zhangke’s odyssey through 21st-century China is mostly footage shot during the production of other films. The result is staggering.
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    Bonjour Tristesse Is Lovely and UnconvincingThis new adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s iconic novel gets the look right, but its characterizations are off the mark.
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    Sadness Hangs Over Rust, in More Ways Than OneIt’s not possible to watch the Alec Baldwin western without thinking of the accident that took cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’s life.
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    Another Simple Favor Is So Fun, Until It Gets So DumbBy the end, the film doesn’t feel subversively strange, just self-consciously campy and irritatingly smug.
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    Thunderbolts* Really Is Marvel’s Answer to an A24 MovieThe MCU’s anti-hero team-up is less Suicide Squad than Everything Everywhere All At Once.
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    In Praise of Revenge of the Sith, the Saddest and Sincerest Star Wars MovieThe final film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy feels like George Lucas’s attempt to step back from his creation and really reckon with it.
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    Babygirl Might Just Be the Year’s Hottest MovieThough what’s great about this sexy Nicole Kidman-Harris Dickinson drama is how surprising it can be.
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    The Accountant 2 Cannot Be Taken SeriouslyDo not approach this sequel, starring Ben Affleck as an underworld accountant again, with any sort of sobriety.
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    Havoc Feels Like a Grand Theft Auto Adaptation (Derogatory)Tom Hardy plays a dirty cop in the new movie from the director of The Raid, which is all cool elements and no coherence.
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    We Have Good News and Bad News About The Legend of OchiThe good news is the controversy over the new A24 film’s supposedly AI-looking critter is baseless. The bad news? Well…
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    Cinderella Was Always a Body-Horror StoryNorwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale.
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    The Wedding Banquet Is Rom-Com Whiplash in the Best SenseThe characters in Andrew Ahn’s remake of an Ang Lee classic can get gay-married, but they’re going to get fake straight-married instead.
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    Why We Still Yearn for Pride and PrejudiceJoe Wright’s 2005 adaptation is filled with lovely images, but it’s all still so experiential, like we’re seeing through the characters’ eyes.
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    Sinners Is Bold, Ambitious, and Just Misses GreatnessIt’s a film that will haunt me just as much as it will keep me wondering who Ryan Coogler wants to be on the other side of Creed and Black Panther.
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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.
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