Reviews
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‘Karate Kid: Legends’ Review: Charming New Installment Subverts the Formula but Needed to Pick a Lane
Director Jonathan Entwistle takes Daniel and Mr. Han to NYC for a story that sometimes surprises and delights and sometimes feels like two movies set against one another
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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Ends With a Hollow Victory. Can the Spinoff Do Better? | Commentary
With “The Testaments” in the works, it was never an option for Elisabeth Moss’ story to end with the fall of Gilead
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‘Yes’ Review: Ferocious, Confrontational Drama Takes Aim at Post-Oct. 7 Israel
Cannes 2025: Nadav Lapid’s film is a tortured film about a tortured artist, and it’s meant to torture its audience
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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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‘Honey Don’t!’ Review: Margaret Qualley Can’t Crack the Case of This Noir Misfire
Cannes 2025: Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s latest collab runs painfully thin
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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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‘Resurrection’ Review: Bi Gan’s Marathon Dream Film Is Baffling and Euphoric
Cannes 2025: The dense and delirious 160-minute cycles through a century of wildly disparate film iconography without making much sense
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‘Young Mothers’ Review: The Dardennes Make a Deeply Felt, Yet Flawed, Social-Realist Drama
Cannes 2025: The strength of the film’s cast helps overcome its stumbles
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‘Drunken Noodles’ Review: This New York Story of Sex and Art Sneaks Up on You
Cannes 2025: Lucio Castro’s small-scale drama of sex and connection has something surprising lurking underneath
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‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Review: Retro Netflix Slasher is Better Than ‘Prom Night,’ Worse Than ‘Prom Night II’
Matt Palmer’s ‘Fear Street’ sequel revives the gnarliest parts of 1980s slasher movies — but leaves the bad parts in too
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‘Fountain of Youth’ Review: Apple’s Epic Asks, ‘What If Indiana Jones Was Annoying?’
John Krasinski and Natalie Portman hunt for treasure in a tedious ‘Raiders’ knockoff with an insufferable hero
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‘Adults’ Review: FX Comedy Finds the Fun in Gen Z Messiness
Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw create a strong ensemble comedy about young adults in New York City, if you can get past the first episode
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‘Sirens’ Review: Meghann Fahy Brings the Substance to Soapy Netflix Limited Series
Julianne Moore and Milly Alcock help hold disparate elements together until the show’s dumb ending
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‘Planètes’ Review: Delightful Animated Odyssey Finds Hope in Nuclear Armageddon
Cannes 2025: Director Momoko Seto takes you on an interstellar trip with a group of seeds in search of a new home after Earth is obliterated
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‘Sentimental Value’ Review: Joachim Trier Reteams With Renate Reinsve for His Best Film Yet
Cannes 2025: Art and family are at the center of the “Worst Person in the World” filmmaker’s latest, co-starring Stellan Skarsgård