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So much for the hype surrounding director David Gordon Green’s declared return to form in the new Halloween, less a companion piece to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic than a barely competent homage to the lousy movies it spawned. The new picture has one idea,…

Damien Chazelle’s First Man presents a vision of the space race, and the men and women swept up in it, as an intensely personal yet, at times, magisterial in scope and ambition. An epic of sorts, it’s a film of both intimate and large…

Handsome, historical, breezily progressive and featuring a radiant Keira Knightley, Colette is a meditation of the spirit of an artist—here a turn of the 20th century proto-feminist and erotic fiction novelist—out of her time. In a period picture with a notable contemporary relevance, Knightley…

Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, an unexpected good time sequel, takes some time to settle into—the songs aren’t quite as good as the first go-round and there’s patent silliness in nearly every frame—but the anything-to-please eagerness, informing every production number, one-liner and candy…