In a movie cage fight between director and actor, Baz Luhrmann tries very hard—and nearly succeeds—at minimizing star Austin Butler’s dazzling turn as The King of rock-n-roll in Elvis, a wildly overdetermined and largely superficial collection of gee-whiz film techniques masquerading as a biopic…
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An incisive, bold adult drama about aging and sexuality, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande finds Emma Thompson in top form as widowed former educator soliciting the services of a young sex worker in a bid toward enlightenment—initially a physical pursuit but ultimately yielding…
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Jurassic World: Dominion, the sixth film in a bloated series that lost its magic about five films ago yet continues barreling ahead, believing there is still wonder in seeing photorealistic dinosaurs onscreen (which hasn’t truly been the case since Steven Spielberg’s 1993 original), certainly…
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David Cronenberg's latest provocation, about a dystopian world where humans feel no pain, somatic mutations reign and surgical procedures are aphrodisiacal performance art, finds the Canadian auteur comfortably in his wheelhouse of envelope-pushing body horror, visionary sci-fi and icy social critique.…
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Voyeurism, stalking and murder in style—suspenseful Watcher ratchets up taut tension as elegant exercise in paranoia that pays homage to classic suspense with a modern twist.…
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I recently caught up with Joel Kim Booster and Andrew Ahn to chat about Fire Island's laugh-out-loud humor, romantic heart and social critique.…
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Top Gun: Maverick is both nostalgia and new, foremost a movie star tribute but equally compelling in both its cross-generational dynamics and sensationally thrilling aerial training and combat sequences.…
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Smith has crafted a funny and wistful observance on coming to terms with the passage of time and life between parents, adult children and siblings.…
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Alex Garland’s latest head trip Men, starring Jessie Buckley as a haunted Londoner who retreats to the countryside following a personal trauma, begins strong and becomes less compelling as it resolves. This is mostly because Garland ultimately proves less interested in his feminine enigma…
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Bold, uncompromising and cautionary about the stark reality of where we are headed.…
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