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Lionsgate Dragged Across Concrete and the Sloppy Provocations of S. Craig Zahler
The new film, starring Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn as corrupt cops, is the latest from the director to embrace troubling stereotypes.
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Universal Us and Jordan Peele’s New Horror
In his latest film, the comedian turned director continues to reinvent how the genre uses fear to comment on humanity’s evil.
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Netflix The Dirt Celebrates the Soullessness of Mötley Crüe
Netflix’s shiny biopic of the hair-metal band barely tries to understand the destruction it portrays.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters Hollywood Makes Way for the Disney-Fox Behemoth
The merger—inked for $71.3 billion—will dramatically reshape the entertainment landscape.
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Eric Charbonneau / Invision for Warner Bros. / ... What the Casting Couch Looks Like in the Digital Age
One of Hollywood’s most pernicious tropes hasn’t died. It has merely expanded.
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Universal Jordan Peele’s Us Is Worth Seeing Again and Again
The Get Out director’s new film is more complicated, more outrageous, and, in a lot of ways, more daringly funny and topical than its predecessor.
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AP Photo / Eugene Hoshiko Why James Gunn Won His Job Back
Months after firing the Guardians of the Galaxy director over past offensive tweets, Disney reversed its decision.
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Cohen Media Group Ash Is Purest White Is a Personal Story Told on an Epic Scale
The latest film from the Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke is a decades-spanning tale of love and betrayal in a drastically changing country.
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Matt Sayles / Invision / AP The Movie Studio Trying to Survive on Risk Taking Alone
Annapurna Pictures—the company behind If Beale Street Could Talk and Sorry to Bother You—is being scrutinized for the reported unprofitability of its films. But its quandary reflects broader problems in Hollywood.
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Netflix Netflix’s New Heist Movie Gets Lost in the Jungle
Triple Frontier, by the gifted director J. C. Chandor, is a letdown compared with his prior work.
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Fox Searchlight The Aftermath Is a Superficial, War-Torn Love Story
James Kent’s period film centers on an affair between a British woman and a former Nazi sympathizer but fails to dig into the moral complexities of their relationship.
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Marvel Studios What the Fight Scenes in Captain Marvel Show
The latest Marvel origin story brought in $456 million at the box office in its first weekend—on the strength, in part, of a very particular definition of “girl power.”
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Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP Steven Spielberg vs. Netflix
The director is again challenging the streaming giant’s ability to compete for Oscars—and he has a point, even if he doesn’t have much industry support.
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Marvel Studios One Way Captain Marvel Could Have Been a Much Better Movie
What if the film had treated its amnesia story line as a creative opportunity rather than as a hindrance?
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A24 Gloria Bell Draws New Energy From a Stunning Lead Performance
Sebastián Lelio’s update of his 2013 film, Gloria, doesn’t change much from the original, but Julianne Moore’s pitch-perfect work is reason enough to watch.
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Stephane Cardinale / Corbis via Getty Images Leaving Neverland and the Burden of the Postmortem Exposé
The HBO documentary about the alleged abuses perpetrated by Michael Jackson tries to get viewers to reconsider the pop star’s canonization. But is it too tall an order?
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The Samuel Goldwyn Company To Sleep With Anger Is a Masterpiece From an Overlooked Film Pioneer
Charles Burnett’s family drama was one of the best movies of the 1990s, but it never received the attention it deserved.
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Everett Collection / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Reality Bites Captured Gen X With Perfect Irony
The 1994 studio film was written by a 20-something who mined her own life to tell the story of a generation that disdained “selling out.”
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Everett Collection Luke Perry’s Career-Long Act of Generosity
The actor, who died on Monday at 52, continued to embrace Dylan McKay, his most iconic and beloved character, long after Beverly Hills, 90210 ended.
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Disney / Marvel The Greatest Strength of Captain Marvel Is Also Its Biggest Weakness
The 21st entry in the famous cinematic universe is alternately lifted up and dragged down by the central mystery of its hero’s true origins.
