An oddly earnest, often clumsy, occasionally compelling holiday slasher that never quite finds its identity.
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/Hailey Benton Gates' feature directorial debut fills a unique gap in the world of war and political satires.
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/This is Park operating at the height of his powers, delivering a thriller that’s as unpredictable as it is darkly funny, as emotionally bruising as it is formally immaculate.
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/It’s the kind of film that feels truly handcrafted; stitched together with an almost obsessive attention to detail, much like Victor’s own creation.
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/Even when I’ve admired his craft, I’ve never fully clicked with his wavelength the way some horror fans have. But ironically, his latest work, this year’s much-maligned Keeper, is the first of his films to pull me completely under.
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/While noticeably imperfect, Wright is clearly having a blast as he so often does in his films, and it's contagious.
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/Tons of inspired sci-fi action that moves with the confidence of someone determined to complicate and expand the mythology instead of coasting with it.
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/Bugonia is disgusting, hilarious, and impossible to shake. You’ll laugh, you’ll flinch, and days later you’ll still be thinking about everything you watched up on that screen.
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/Kathryn Bigelow’s most unabashedly popcorn thriller to date.
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/It’s a mixed bag with a handful of duds, a few near-masterpieces, and a lot of inspired weirdness in between.
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/Blending unabashed spectacle with substance, Bill Condon’s latest effort is a transcendent tale of romance and revolution that dazzles on all fronts.
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/Tron: Ares isn’t without its flaws, but it pushes the franchise into an exciting new frontier with an industrial edge thanks to Nine Inch Nails’ propulsive score.
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/Good Boy is a reminder that even the simplest premise can become extraordinary when filtered through the right perspective.
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/Thrilling, terrifying, hilarious, devastating, and essential all at once. Few filmmakers could pull that off, but Paul Thomas Anderson makes it look effortless once again.
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/As a cutthroat, exaggerated mirror of football culture, Him is often thrilling to watch, even if it doesn’t fully deliver on its ideas.
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/The Long Walk is unflinching in its violence, unrelenting in its despair, and quietly profound in its depiction of young men eternally forced to march themselves into an early grave.
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/This sequel proves that the loudest joke in rock history is also one of its greatest bands.
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/It's the same old bag of haunted house tricks for this supposed finale to the Conjuring franchise, but there's enough heart to say a proper goodbye to Ed and Lorraine Warren.
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/Undeniably gripping - a chance to see one of American cinema’s great maximalists let loose in a genre playground, armed with style, wit, and a cat who somehow steals every scene.
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/Gallons of toxic waste, exploding heads, Peter Dinklage, and even a little Motörhead help this reboot of the 80s splatter classic stand on its own.
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