Tom Cruise sets his sights on Oscar gold with ‘Digger’, a timely, wildly ambitious and bold swing that is a thunderous wake up call as much as it is a deeply entertaining, potent social satire.
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‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’ is a sidestepping melodrama in a way that Kiwi films do so effortlessly. It is an unflinching and uncompromising slice-of-life story about a teenage girl’s desire to be seen.
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Robert Pattinson steps into the slippery skin of Chris Hansen in A24’s ‘Primetime’, a riveting, filthy and hypnotic character study that has firmly entered the awards conversation.
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Mahershala Ali and director Bassam Tariq team up for Amazon’s ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’, a soulful and visceral knockout with a sharp blade and plenty on its mind.
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After collaborating on the war epic ‘Fury’, director David Ayer and star Brad Pitt have reunited for the new survival film ‘Heart of the Beast, a fiercely gripping and emotionally compelling tale of companionship put to the test.
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Dreamworks is back with ‘Forgotten island’, a zany, wildly entertaining and heartfelt family adventure that continues to showcase a wonderful evolution for the beloved animation studio.
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Despite impassioned performances by Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, Florian Zeller has proven incapable of making thought-provoking films as his flop streak continues with ‘Bunker’.
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Director Peter Farrelly decides to tell the underdog story behind the underdog story in a heartwarming, albeit low-stakes award contender, ‘I Play Rocky’.
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Someone, someday, and honestly maybe they already have, will tell a good story and execute a good film surrounding this premise. Unfortunately, ‘Paradise Lost’ is not that film.
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Director Rachel Morrison’s sophomore outing, ‘Love Of Your Life’ retains the emotional sensibilities of her knockout debut, albeit in a somewhat dull story.
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Impassioned performances from Ruth Madeley and Mark Ruffalo save Sian Heder’s ‘Being Heumann’ from being a misfire, but the film’s flaws stick out like a sore thumb.
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Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’ delivers a beautiful yet deeply isolating and singular narrative about a family in crisis, making for one of this year’s best.
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‘Clarissa’, the latest film from Arie and Chuko Esiri, which swaps Virginia Woolf’s 1920’s London for both a contemporary and 1980’s/90’s Nigeria in a brilliant reimagining of the classic.
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Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee give two of the year’s most moving and profoundly tragic performances in Kent Jones’ ‘Late Fame’.
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Director Ridley Scott returns with his latest film ‘The Dog Stars’, an adaptation of the beloved novel by Peter Heller that thankfully leans far more human than apocalypse.
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Despite one of the year’s best ensembles, Karim Aïnouz and Efthimis Filippou’s reinterpretation of a Marco Bellocchio classic in ‘Rosebush Pruning’ ends up being a massive nothingburger.
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Matt Johnson deconstructs – and complicates – the very nature of biopics by drawing a tragic portrait of Anthony Bourdain’s youth in the masterful ‘Tony’.
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Despite an incredible lead performance from Haruka Ayase, fillmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda struggles to translate many ideas on screen in ‘Sheep in the Box’, making it a massive misstep for the prolific Japanese auteur.
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Tom Holland’s wall-crawler is back on the big screen yet again in ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’, an installment that is not only the best entry in the series yet, but one of the best Spider-Man films - period.
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In yet another display of Christopher Nolan’s ambition, this latest film adaptation of ‘The Odyssey’ marks a new high in Nolan’s already impressive filmography.
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