If you have the time, ‘Wicked’ is a totally worthy afternoon at the movies meant for family and friends. The World of Oz needed a refreshment, and perhaps this wizardly revisit is exactly what the wizard ordered.
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Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans attempt to save Christmas in their big budget holiday adventure film ‘Red One’ - a holiday film that miserably fails to entertain and deliver what it easily could have.
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Director Ridley Scott boldly heads back to the colosseum for ‘Gladiator II’, a sequel that fortunately is a highly entertaining and worthy successor to its award winning and epic predecessor.
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Tyler Thomas Taormina depicts the euphoric chaos of Christmastime unlike any filmmaker has ever showcased in ‘Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point’. Yet there are glaring flaws that prevent it from becoming the next great Christmas classic.
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Clint Eastwood gives aspiring filmmakers a true lesson in shot-reverse-shot with ‘Juror #2’, a gripping procedural thriller on the fallacies of our legal system(s).
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Liam Neeson gives his all for the first time in a long time in ‘Absolution’, even if the material he has to work with tends to be on the muddled side.
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Robert Zemeckis teams up with Tom Hanks and AI, but the garish experiment simply becomes non-linear, static and a complete miss. The resulting film is ‘Here’, and it is just as baffling as you think.
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Andrea Arnold turns her social realist lens into a magical one with ‘Bird’ and fails at drawing any meaningful arcs on its central characters despite a constantly assured stylistic touch.
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Eddie and Venom are back on the big screen for one final adventure in ‘Venom: The Last Dance’, a conclusion that is emotionally limp and easily the weakest of the trilogy.
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Mohammad Rasoulof confronts and rejects state propaganda in his daring and courageous The Seed of the Sacred Fig and makes the most critical piece of political media of the decade so
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Jacques Audiard attempts to depict the tragic story of its titular character in ‘Emilia Pérez’, but the narrative/aesthetic results are constantly baffling and, more offensively, deeply transphobic.
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The aptly named ‘Smile 2’, Parker Finn’s sequel to the successful ‘Smile’ offers new themes and great performances, although it can still a feel a bit too familiar.
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While ‘Goodrich’ is nothing completely unique, it flourishes due to the charisma and gravitas of Michael Keaton, resulting in a tried-and-true kind of family drama, amplified by scattered moments of genuine resonance along the way.
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Art The Clown is back to terrify audiences yet again in 'Terrifier 3', a sequel that is not only bloodier than its predecessors, but more entertaining and ambitious as well.
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Sebastian Stan transforms into Donald J. Trump through the origin story of one of the most crooked individuals in the history of the United States, in ‘The Apprentice’.
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After making a billion dollar splash at the worldwide box office in 2019, director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix have returned to Gotham with 'Joker: Folie a Deux', a sequel that is as bold as it is incredibly frustrating.
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Shallow, bloated, and utterly pretentious, Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' is the biggest refutation of the auteur theory since 'Beau is Afraid'.
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Kate Winslet gives one of the best turns of her career as renowned photojournalist Lee Miller in Ellen Kuras’ feature directorial debut, 'Lee'.
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Samara Weaving keeps the blood count piling up in E.L Katz’s 'Azrael', but the film’s silent gimmick hampers its momentum.
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Sebastian Stan continues to do great work in the independent sphere with an often engrossing, though underwhelming, character study in Aaron Schimberg’s ‘A Different Man’.
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