movie reviews
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The ‘Alien’ and ‘Predator’ Movies, Ranked Worst to Best
How does “Predator: Killer of Killers” rate among these two intertwining franchises?
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‘Splitsville’ Review: Unruly Screwball Comedy Offers Extreme Scenes From a Marriage
Cannes 2025: Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin wed their blustery comic tone with the star power of Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona
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‘Mountainhead’ Review: Jesse Armstrong’s Tech Bro Farce Laughs as the World Burns
Cory Michael Smith’s sociopathic CEO comes out as the most memorable — and Muskiest — in the “Succession” creator’s HBO character study
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‘The Accountant 2’ Review: Tangled Storylines, Distractions – These Books Are a Mess
Nevertheless, the Ben Affleck-led sequel surpasses its original by keying into a lenient and dangerously playful tone
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‘Another Simple Favor’ Review: Cartoonish, Over-the-Top Sequel Lacks the Lust and Vigor of Original
Tart zingers and bicker-banter can’t save this out-of-focus follow-up from Paul Feig
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‘Rabbit Trap’ Review: Dev Patel Gets Lost in the Woods in Folk Horror That Falls Flat
Sundance 2025: Bryn Chaney’s film has excellent sound design but does little with it
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‘The Order’ Review: A Paunchy Jude Law Dominates Neo-Nazi Drama
Venice Film Festival: Director Justin Kurzel’s most accomplished work to date offsets broody fatalism against natural splendor
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‘The Apprentice’ Review: Donald Trump Movie Starring Sebastian Stan Plays Like a Tragic Frankenstein Tale
Cannes 2024: With Stan as a young Trump and Jeremy Strong as lawyer Roy Cohn, the film is amusing at times and disturbing at others
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‘Horizon: An American Saga’ Review: Kevin Costner Unveils a Sprawling, Old-Fashioned Western
Cannes 2024: The first of a projected four movies is a corny, rousing epic for people who say they don’t make ’em like that anymore
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‘Jim Henson Idea Man’ Review: Ron Howard Takes a Loving, Honest Look at Muppets Creator
Cannes 2024: Skillful, honest and sympathetic, this is the kind of film you’d want about Jim Henson
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‘Caught by the Tides’ Review: Jia Zhangke Stands Up for China but Watches Things Fall Apart
Cannes 2024: The film is an elegy of sorts, at times angry and abrasive but more often gentle and reflective
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‘Kinds of Kindness’ Review: Yorgos Lanthimos Brings Back Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe for a Surreal Creep-Fest
Cannes 2024: “The Favourite” and “Poor Things” were fun, but this trio of dark and disturbing stories is old-style Lanthimos
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‘Megalopolis’ Review: Francis Ford Coppola’s Epic Sprawl Is Grandiose and Goofy
Cannes 2024: This is a project of operatic pronouncements, didactic repetitions and mad artistic ambitions – quite a few realized, just as many not
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‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ Review: African Story Slips Between Fable and Hard Reality
Cannes 2024: Rungano Nyoni’s follow-up to “I Am Not a Witch” is timely, but it also exists completely out of time
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‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ Review: Spirited Sequel Struggles With an Illogical Script
Brimming with good vibes, Mckenna Grace and Paul Rudd co-star in a ‘Ghostbusters’ movie that evokes the classic animated series
