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Annapurna Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette Is a Gripping Mess
The film isn’t so much a mystery thriller as it is an imperfect drama about a woman mired in a creative crisis.
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Warner Bros. A Movie About Falling in Love With Bruce Springsteen
Blinded by the Light is the earnest, exuberant story of a British Pakistani boy who finds inspiration in the American icon.
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Universal How The Hunt Became a Political Rorschach Test
After a series of tweets from President Trump, Universal canceled the release of a film that’s been alternately praised and decried by critics who haven’t seen it.
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Universal Good Boys Goes Beyond the Dirty Jokes
Gene Stupnitsky’s new film, which follows three middle schoolers bumbling their way through a crazy night, balances raunchy humor with insight.
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Warner Bros. The Kitchen Is an Amoral, Atonal Mess of a Movie
Not even Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss can salvage this confusing attempt at a gangster film.
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Disney / Hollywood Pictures How The Sixth Sense Conquered Hollywood in 1999
M. Night Shyamalan’s ghost story was an unlikely box-office success 20 years ago—but a movie like it could happen again today.
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NEON A Flawed Thriller About the Myth of the ‘Model Immigrant’
Luce follows a high-school student and refugee who writes an essay that terrifies his teacher.
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IFC The Nightingale Is a Harrowing but Worthy Watch
Jennifer Kent’s latest film is an intriguing follow-up to The Babadook—a powerful tale of revenge, and a period piece unsoftened by genre trappings.
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Daniel Smith / Universal Pictures Hobbs & Shaw Is Loud, Silly, and Pointless
The Fast & Furious spin-off is a roaring macho-man fantasia that quickly sputters out.
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Sony / Columbia What Quentin Tarantino’s Box-Office Success Says About Hollywood
The director’s new film smashed expectations during its opening weekend—the latest reminder that quality and originality can be a winning formula.
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Kino Lorber The Mountain Is a Strange and Alienating Satire
Jeff Goldblum gives an electrifying performance as a lobotomist traveling through 1950s America in Rick Alverson’s caustic new film.
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Neon A Rare Nature Documentary That Tells a Deeply Human Story
Honeyland is both a personal tale about a lonely beekeeper in Macedonia and an epic with the aloof grandeur of Planet Earth.
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Sony / Columbia Quentin Tarantino Has Made His Best Movie in a Decade
An epic and melancholy hangout film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a film star grappling with his looming irrelevance.
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Disney / Marvel The Future of Movies Is Marvel
The studio’s upcoming slate of film and TV projects, announced over the weekend at Comic-Con, lays claim to its continued cultural ubiquity.
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Bleecker Street The Art of Self-Defense Explores the Absurd Horrors of Masculinity
The satirical karate movie starring Jesse Eisenberg posits that these days, men do not have to dig deeply to find their inner brutes.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Netflix’s U.S. Subscriber Numbers Are Slipping
The company is seeing a dip in its American growth for the first time since 2011. What does that mean for the streaming service?
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NBC / Everett Collection HBO Max’s Golden Ticket
The details of the newly announced mega-service are murky, but it has one huge advantage over Netflix: the streaming rights to Friends.
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Mark Hill / 20th Century Fox If You Give a Cop an Uber
Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista are a lovable odd couple in Stuber, an old-school buddy comedy made for 2019.
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A24 Awkwafina Gives a Stellar Breakout Performance in The Farewell
The comedian and rapper shines in Lulu Wang’s new film about a young woman who has to hide a painful truth from her dying grandmother.
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Disney / Marvel Spider-Man: Far From Home Satirizes the Way Marvel Movies Are Made
A final twist reveals the film’s true villain—and offers a layered critique of the systems that bring superheroes to the screen.
