‘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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‘A Quiet Place Part II’ is a smart, taut, character-driven, and thematically integrated film that accomplishes everything it sets out to do.
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A neo-gothic mix of Mean Girls and Dead Poets Society with a Candyman base, ‘Séance’ has one twist too many, but succeeds on its genre bona fides.
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Bridesmaids for arm-wrestling, ‘Golden Arm’ proves that boys aren’t the only ones who can carry a film with stupid macho humor and improv craziness.
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‘Without Remorse’ moves well and has stakes, but ultimately suffers from a Jack Ryan deficiency.
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A gore-happy love letter to a notoriously violent video game, ‘Mortal Kombat’ is the film that fans of the franchise have been waiting for.
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‘Wildcat’ is little more than torture porn with all the foreplay and none of the payoff.
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‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ isn’t so much good, but rather good enough, sacrificing character work and dialogue for kick-ass action set pieces.
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Even with reshoots, an extra 2 hours, and a mulligan budget rumored to be in the $80 million dollar range, this film is undeniably, irredeemably awful.
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