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TIFF 76 Days Is Unwatchable Yet Utterly Compelling
The first major documentary about the coronavirus pandemic is a brutal look at the earliest days of the outbreak in Wuhan, China.
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Jae C. Hong / AP The Failure of Mulan Is More Bad News for Hollywood
The film’s disappointing release is further evidence that the pandemic is defeating blockbuster movies.
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Antebellum Isn’t Just Bad—It’s Vile
To make a point about the evils of white supremacy, the film subjects its Black characters to unceasing brutality.
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Amazon Studios 4 Films You Need to Watch This Fall
Some of the year’s best new movies are about American soul-searching.
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VALERIE MACON / AFP / Getty Hollywood’s Tenet Experiment Failed
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster was supposed to save U.S. theaters. Now the future looks bleaker than ever.
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The Atlantic There’s No Excuse for Failing the Oscars’ Diversity Requirements
The awards’ new Best Picture eligibility rules are so lenient, they’d shame any film that can’t meet them.
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Franco Origlia / Getty / Katie Martin / ... ‘Aging, Loneliness, Losing Your Mind, and Falling Apart’
Charlie Kaufman’s strange new film, Netflix’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things, is about the things that terrify him.
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Disney+ The Question That Mulan Doesn’t Ask
Disney’s live-action remake about a young woman warrior goes heavy on gravitas, at the expense of playful interiority.
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Mary Cybulski / Netflix Charlie Kaufman’s First Movie in Years Is a Mind-Bender
Netflix’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things is presented as a psychological-horror drama, but it’s so much more.
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Warner Bros. I Want to Watch Tenet Again. Unfortunately.
Christopher Nolan’s dense, time-bending epic practically demands multiple viewings. Whether that’s a good idea during a pandemic is a different story.
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MELODIE MCDANIEL / TRUNK ARCHIVE The Profound Heroism of Chadwick Boseman
The actor played revolutionary characters who made both Hollywood and American history—all while quietly undergoing treatment for the cancer that took his life at age 43.
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Lifestyle Pictures / Alamy Hollywood’s Grim New Beginning
The slow reopening of U.S. cinemas is being led by a mediocre action movie that grossed a mere $4 million in its first weekend. But it’s something.
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Apple What Happens When You Let 1,000 Teenage Boys Run a Government
A new documentary about a high-school civics experiment suggests that young Americans simply imitate the flawed electoral politics they see in their country.
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Hopper Stone / HBO Max A Tale of Two Seth Rogens
In HBO Max’s An American Pickle, the actor plays both a Jewish immigrant from the 1920s who wakes up in 2020—and his great-grandson.
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Stephen Vaughan / Warner Bros. / Everett Collection The Surprising Legacy of Inception, 10 Years Later
In 2010, Christopher Nolan released a movie that made him a filmmaking hero. His newest thriller could do the same and revive struggling theaters.
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Bryan Anselm / Redux Hollywood Is Finally Admitting That the U.S. Is a Lost Cause
The country’s sluggish pandemic response has forced movie studios to release big movies, such as Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, abroad first—a highly unusual move for the industry.
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Screen Gems / Courtesy Everett Collection 25 Underrated Films That Will Save Your Summer
A watchlist for comic-book-movie fans and art-house obsessives in search of new, great cinema
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Quiver Why Low-Budget Horror Is Thriving This Summer
These dirt-cheap productions are making money, finding eager audiences, and garnering critical praise during a largely dead box-office season.
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Criterion Collection What We Can Learn From Bruce Lee’s Fight Scenes
A closer look at his biggest movies reveals the many dimensions of a man best known as a fierce action hero.
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Hulu Palm Springs Is the Comedy of the Summer
The new Hulu movie is about feeling endlessly trapped—and finding happiness anyway.
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