‘Macbeth’ is built like some kind of cinematic fantasy sports lineup and executed with all of the ease of an all-star team playing a no-pads scrimmage.
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‘The Beta Test’ is a peek behind the showbiz curtain, looking less at the product and more at the obsolete machinery struggling to churn it out.
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An interesting if somewhat under-baked story with captivating imagery and unparalleled needle-drops, ‘Last Night in Soho’ is decent if unspectacular.
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Exciting, interesting, transportive, and seemingly pulled straight out of the mind of Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’ is the sci-fi experience of the season, and the movie fans of the book deserve.
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This ‘Sopranos’ movie prequel maintains the texture and voice of the groundbreaking show while never achieving its character or story depth.
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‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ showcases the best performances of its leads’ careers, utterly wasting them on branded image propaganda.
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‘No Man of God’ is not a film that Ted Bundy would have enjoyed, but it’s the one his victims deserve.
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‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ succeeds where others have faltered due to its vice-like grip on the larger Marvel formula and an embrace of genre.
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‘The Green Knight’ is ‘Excalibur’ on mescaline; it is ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ crossed with ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ It is also spectacular.
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‘Stillwater’ is a messy, unfocused tangle of a movie made only marginally watchable because of the superb work of its lead.
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Despite a strong Mark Wahlberg turn, ‘Joe Bell’ is a jumbled mess of emotions and contradictions, none of them particularly interesting or fully baked.
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‘Black Widow’ is a good time, even if it does come up short on originality and stakes for the MCU moving forward.
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Once a refreshing escapist lark, F9 finds the franchise stretching at the seams between a film that honors its “mythology” while also making fun of it.
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A vibrant, jubilant love letter to multiculturalism, community, hope, and compassion, ‘In the Heights’ delivers on the post-‘Hamilton’ promise.
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‘Cruella’ does the seemingly impossible: it proves that you can teach an old Mouse new tricks.
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