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‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ Review: A Sometimes Exhausting, Often Exhilarating, Always Impressively Immersive Screen Experience
The epic concert movie, which features more than three dozen songs, was filmed over three Los Angeles shows on the pop icon's record-breaking global tour.
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‘My Love Affair With Marriage’ Review: An Animator’s Tough and Zingy Musical Exploration of Womanhood
With a voice cast led by Dagmara Domińczyk, New York-based Latvian filmmaker Signe Baumane delves into traditional gender roles, the biochemistry of romance, and recent Eastern European history.
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‘Here’ Review: Belgian Drama’s Poetic Gaze Is Low-Key and Profoundly Affecting
A migrant worker meets a botanist who opens his eyes to a world of microscopic beauty in Bas Devos’ Brussels-set mood piece.
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‘Totally Killer’ Review: Kiernan Shipka in a Fun-Enough Time-Traveling ’80s Slasher Flick
Nahnatchka Khan directs Blumhouse's horror-comedy about a Gen Z teen who accidentally time-travels to the 1980s, where she tries to stop a serial killer's spree before it ever begins.
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‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ Review: Mistrust on Campus Spirals Out of Control in a Taut, Unconventional German Thriller
In Germany’s official Oscar entry, a young middle school teacher finds herself at the center of an expanding web of anger and suspicion.
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‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ Review: A Playful and Cerebral Doc Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Radical Novel
Spanish philosopher Paul B. Preciado helms a documentary that links the eponymous hero of Woolf's 1928 novel to a multigenerational group of 25 trans and genderqueer people.
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‘The Exorcist: Believer’ Review: Early Intrigue Devolves Into Unoriginal Excess in David Gordon Green’s Sequel
Leslie Odom Jr. heads a cast that includes Ann Dowd and Ellen Burstyn, the latter reprising her role from William Friedkin’s 1973 horror classic for the first time.
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‘Foe’ Review: Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal Are Too Magnetic to Be Mired in All This Dystopian Murk
Garth Davis directs Amazon's horror-tinged psychological sci-fi feature, also starring Aaron Pierre as a corporate rep conscripting space colonists and sowing division in a young couple's marriage.
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‘Dance First’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Talks to Himself in James Marsh’s Ponderous Beckett Bio-Drama
Fionn O’Shea, Sandrine Bonnaire and Aidan Gillen also star in this fragmented account of the Irish existentialist writer’s life, framed by his reluctant acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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‘Something You Said Last Night’ Review: A Sensitively Observed but Insufficiently Probing Family Drama
A young trans woman goes on vacation with her caring but overbearing Italian family in Luis De Filippis' debut feature, executive produced by Julia Fox.
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‘Saw X’ Review: Tobin Bell Returns to the Central Role, and the Diabolical Gore Is as Creative and Brutal as Ever
Jigsaw is back to his old grisly tricks in this latest installment of the venerable horror franchise.
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‘The Successor’ Review: A Dark and Distressing Psychological Thriller With Too Much Faulty Logic
César Award winner Xavier Legrand’s second feature follows a rising fashion designer whose life unravels when he heads home to bury his estranged father.
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‘PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie’ Review: Pup Franchise Gets Super-Sized With Mixed Results
The heroic canines from Nickelodeon's popular kids' TV series return for their second big-screen adventure, this time facing a new adversary voiced by Taraji P. Henson.
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‘The Creator’ Review: John David Washington Gets Caught Up in AI War in Gareth Edwards’ Baggy, Sentimental Sci-Fi Epic
Gemma Chan, Allison Janney and Ken Watanabe also star in the post-apocalyptic action thriller, which pits U.S. military against a robot menace 10 years after a nuclear explosion levels Los Angeles.
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‘The Kill Room’ Review: Samuel L. Jackson’s Priceless Delivery Is the Chief Reward in Otherwise Unmemorable Dark Comedy
Uma Thurman and Joe Manganiello co-star in Nicol Paone's caper about a hit man turned unlikely art world star via an elaborate money-laundering scheme.
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‘A Silence’ Review: Joachim Lafosse’s Dark and Probing Pedophilia Drama Turns Decidedly Bleak
The Belgian director's latest film stars Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Devos as a couple facing up to dangerous truths about their past.
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