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Disney / Pixar Pixar Needs to Make More Movies Like Onward
The studio’s latest film is a sweet, inventive, and original story of two brothers growing up in a fantasy universe that’s lost its edge.
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Focus Features The Delicate and Demanding World of Emma
The director Autumn de Wilde’s precise aesthetic is an ideal match for the rigid social rules of Jane Austen’s classic novel.
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Paramount Pictures Sonic the Hedgehog Is No Longer Terrifying
The new film about the super-speedy video-game mascot is actually just dull.
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Fox Searchlight Pictures Downhill Remakes a Movie That Was Already Perfect
The film is a faithful rendering of 2014’s Force Majeure—and Will Ferrell doesn’t belong in it.
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Chris Pizzello / AP The Best Speech of Oscars Night
When Bong Joon Ho accepted the directing trophy for Parasite, his heartfelt remarks flipped a predictable-seeming ceremony into must-see live television.
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NEON The Lodge Is an Unsettling but Underwhelming Thriller
The new horror film from the creators of Goodnight Mommy features a nightmarish battle of wills between two kids and a mother figure whom they don’t entirely trust.
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Everett Collection Kirk Douglas Was a Movie Star Ahead of His Time
The film legend, who died at age 103, was a bridge between cinema’s fusty beginnings and its more adventurous future.
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Warner Bros. The DC Comics Universe Is Ready for a Rebound
In Birds of Prey, both Harley Quinn and the studio behind her are reckoning with past mistakes.
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Netflix / NEON / CJ Entertainment / Sony ... “And the Oscar Goes to …”: Our 2020 Academy Awards Predictions
Can Parasite triumph over 1917? Will Brad Pitt win his first acting Oscar? Here is The Atlantic’s forecast.
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Bleecker Street The Assistant Is a Subtle Horror Film for the #MeToo Era
The title character of Kitty Green’s new movie works for a man so nebulously threatening that the camera never shows his face.
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Neon / Sundance The Most Crowd-Pleasing Films Coming Out of Sundance
Studios are betting on films such as Palm Springs and Minari to earn box-office success as well as critical praise.
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Focus Features The Most Exciting Films at Sundance Were Made by Women
The festival’s showcase of movies by Janicza Bravo, Eliza Hittman, Kirsten Johnson, and others could be a sign of positive change in an industry struggling to diversify.
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Sony Pictures Releasing The Shadow That’s Haunting Will Smith
He’s still a movie star. But both of his latest films reflect an actor terrified of fading into obscurity.
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STX Films Matthew McConaughey Can Do Better Than This
The actor gives a listless performance in The Gentlemen, an unpleasant muddle of bigoted humor and tired clichés.
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Sundance / Focus Features What Critics Are Looking Forward to at Sundance 2020
The annual film festival will kick off a new year in independent cinema this week.
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GKIDS A Film About Teens Finding Love Amid Climate Apocalypse
Makoto Shinkai’s bold and charming Weathering With You is set in a world ending so gradually, people barely notice it anymore.
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Universal Dolittle Is One of the Worst Movies in Years
The new film starring Robert Downey Jr. as a doctor who talks to animals is transfixing at times, if only because it’s such a disaster.
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A24 / Everett Collection The Problem With the Oscars’ Idea of a ‘Good Movie’
Every year, plenty of excellent films are excluded from the awards-season conversation for reasons that have nothing to do with talent or artistry. This year is no different.
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Warner Bros. Breaking Down the 2020 Oscar Nominations
Todd Phillips’s Joker is the biggest contender in an Academy Awards race featuring a single actor of color and no female directors.
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Warner Bros. Just Mercy Is a Stark True Story of Good and Evil
The biopic draws power from its faithful retelling of a man’s wrongful conviction, but risks seeming more like a news summary than a narrative work.
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