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‘Fuxi: Four Tales of Feasting’ Review: Whimsical Chinese Film Explores Myth and History Through a Series of Tasty Treats
In Qiu Jiongjiong's latest, highly stylized sets and costumes contribute to a strange banquet of storytelling where food plays a key role.
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Patrick Stewart’s Career Was a Rare and Thrilling Marriage of the Prestigious and the Populist
Stewart's classical theater chops invested genre film and television roles with unlikely dramatic weight, psychological depth and piercing feeling.
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‘The Mongoose’ Review: Propulsive Pacing and Impressive Stunt Work Help Make This an Above-Average Liam Neeson Actioner
The veteran star takes it on the lam in a souped-up sports car in this high-octane thriller co-starring Marisa Tomei, Ving Rhames and Michael Chiklis.
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Top 10 Movies That Explain What’s Happening in France Right Now
Amid riots, looting and protests by French students angry at the conditions of their high schools, THR’s Paris-based film critic picks 10 essential movies that shed light on the tensions leading to this moment.
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‘The Mosquito Bowl’ Review: Nicholas Galitzine and Bill Skarsgard in Peter Berg’s Technically Impressive, Emotionally Hollow Netflix War Drama
Ray Nicholson and Tom Francis also star in the AFI Fest-premiering film, inspired by the true story of a football game played between Marines stationed in the Pacific theater of WWII.
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‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’ Review: Sacha Baron Cohen Reprises Iconic Role, Yielding Equal Parts Belly Laughs and Boredom
The comedian brings back the controversial character for his first big-screen appearance since 2002's 'Ali G Indahouse.'
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‘Clayface’ Review: DC Studios’ Batman Villain Origin Story Is a Bona Fide Body-Horror Delight
Directed by James Watkins and co-written by Mike Flanagan, the standalone film stars Tom Rhys Harries, Naomi Ackie and Max Minghella.
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‘Klara and the Sun’ Review: Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams Should Have Insisted on a Factory Reset for Taika Waititi’s Cloying, Clumsy AI Fable
Newcomer Mia Tharia, Natasha Lyonne and Steve Buscemi also star in this adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel about the unique qualities of being human that cannot be replicated.
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‘Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald’ Review: Judd Apatow’s Comedy Doc Sends Viewers Down a Laugh-Filled Rabbit Hole
The Netflix film skips traditional talking heads for a more archival approach to the 'Saturday Night Live' comedy legend.
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‘Street Fighter’ Review: Noah Centineo Stars in a Video Game Adaptation That Pummels You With Fan Service and (Too Few) New Moves
The colorful gladiators return in this latest incarnation of the long-running video game series, directed by Kitao Sakurai and co-starring Andrew Koji and Callina Liang.
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‘Whalefall’ Review: Austin Abrams Struggles to Escape the Digestive Tract of a Whopper Mammal in a Dumb Thriller That Takes Itself Way Too Seriously
Josh Brolin and Elisabeth Shue also star in Brian Duffield’s race-against-the-clock survival tale about a scuba-diving disaster, based on the Daniel Kraus novel.
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‘Wildwood’ Review: Laika’s Ambitious Stop-Motion Epic Is Both a Technical and Emotional Triumph
A teenage girl enters a mysterious kingdom in search of her kidnapped brother in Travis Knight's animated fantasy film, voiced by an all-star cast including Carey Mulligan and Mahershala Ali.
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‘Ray Gunn’ Review: Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson in Brad Bird’s Forgettable Netflix Animated Neo-Noir
Produced by Skydance Animation's John Lasseter and also starring Tom Waits and Bobby Cannavale, the film follows a golden-hearted private eye hired to wrangle a famously volatile starlet.
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‘14th’ Review: Ava DuVernay Delivers Another Essential and Compelling Constitutional Deep Dive for Netflix
Premiering at the New York Film Festival, the filmmaker's follow-up to her '13th' tackles birthright citizenship, the Equal Protection Clause and the undoing of the gains of Reconstruction.
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‘Trust Me, I’m a Doctor’ Review: Kal Penn Plays Anna Nicole Smith’s Physician in a Moldy and Misguided Bio-Dramedy
Abbie Cornish co-stars as the famous model and reality TV star in this film about the man charged with various crimes after her death from a drug overdose.
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‘Other Mommy’ Review: Jessica Chastain Commits Admirably to an Otherwise Flimsy Supernatural Chiller
Rob Savage’s horror film, also starring Jay Duplass, revolves around a child being stalked by a nefarious entity that looks just like her mother.
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