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Andrew Haigh’s intimate, time-bending romance is worth the ugly cry.

Though Sean Durkin’s latest is undeniably well-acted and beautifully made, the dramatic lives of the wrestling Von Erich family make for oddly undramatic storytelling.

Who could’ve imagined that such a creatively bankrupt idea would yield one of the year’s most charming films?

Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest is a bit of a one-joke movie, though to be fair, it’s an awfully good joke.

The new film from Ava DuVernay is a well-meaning letdown looks like it was made to play in every middle school that isn’t scared to show students something that resembles critical race theory.

William Oldroyd’s adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel is a wickedly entertaining mash-up of psychological thriller, film noir, and lesbian pulp.

Todd Haynes still surprises with this blackly comic drama inspired by the Mary Kay Letourneau scandal.

Ridley Scott’s latest is more than it appears, a sly comedy and psycho-sexual drama wrapped in a historical epic’s clothing.

Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” follow-up boasts fine performances and some memorable dialogue, but simply can’t sustain its clever premise.

Colman Domingo has a blast as gay Black activist Bayard Rustin in George C. Wolfe’s “Rustin,” quite possibly the jazziest civil rights movie ever made.

David Fincher’s latest Netflix piffle is stylish as hell – and just as empty.

This A24 film can’t maintain the level of either its wild concept or its lead performance from Nicolas Cage.