More from David Rooney
‘I’m Still Here’ Review: Walter Salles Returns Home With the Powerful Story of a Broken Family’s Resistance
Premiering at Venice, the film stars Fernanda Torres as a mother of five children who reinvents herself as a lawyer and activist after suffering a devastating loss at the height of Brazil’s military dictatorship.
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‘The Brutalist’ Review: Adrien Brody Is Devastating in Brady Corbet’s Monumental Symphony of Immigrant Experience
Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn also star in the epic story of a Hungarian Jewish architect who flees Europe after the war to build a new life in America.
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‘Babygirl’ Review: Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson Embrace Every Dangerous Turn in a Dark Thriller About Unruly Desire
A tightly wound CEO finds release through a torrid affair with an intern in director Halina Reijn’s second English-language feature, following 2022's ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies.’
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‘Maria’ Review: Angelina Jolie’s Maria Callas Suffers at a Chilly Distance in Pablo Larraín’s Biopic
This chronicle of the final week in the life of the opera legend follows ‘Jackie’ and ‘Spencer’ in the Chilean director’s trilogy about famous women caught in the emotional headlights.
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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Review: Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton Help Tim Burton Rediscover the Ghoulish Mischief of His Glory Days
Catherine O’Hara, Jenna Ortega and Justin Theroux also star in the Venice opener, a sequel to the 1988 horror comedy about a renegade “bio-exorcist” liberated from the afterlife.
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Venice Film Festival: 5 Can’t-Miss Premieres
The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival officially kicks off on Wednesday with the eyes of the film world focused on the Lido. Long-running festival director Alberto Barbera and his team have unveiled a star-studded lineup, including possible awards season contenders. But which premieres can’t be missed amid the busy program? THR‘s chief movie […]
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‘The Crow’ Review: Lugubrious Bill Skarsgard Reboot Scarcely Improves on the Original’s Disposable Sequels
Rupert Sanders goes back to the comic book series with a different take on the dark supernatural journey of love and revenge, also starring FKA Twigs and Danny Huston.
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Hollywood’s 20 Best Political Movies, Ranked
As the U.S. presidential election gets into full swing, THR’s chief film critic ranks 20 indelible films — from thrillers to biopics to satires to issue-driven dramas — that grapple, either explicitly or implicitly, with themes of power, governance, civic engagement and what it means to be American.
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‘Alien: Romulus’ Review: Cailee Spaeny Is Compelling in a Flawed but Pulse-Pounding Homage to the Franchise’s Origins
David Jonsson, Archie Renaux and Isabela Merced also star in Fede Alvarez’s sci-fi/horror installment, set between the events of Ridley Scott’s original and James Cameron’s sequel.
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‘Borderlands’ Review: Cate Blanchett Is a Gunslinging Bounty Hunter in Eli Roth’s Joylessly Gonzo Adaptation of the Popular Video Game
Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt and Jamie Lee Curtis also star in this fight to survive on the lawless planet Pandora, with Jack Black providing the voice of a wisecracking robot.
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‘The Instigators’ Review: Matt Damon and Casey Affleck Can’t Goose Doug Liman’s Limp Heist Movie
Hong Chau, Michael Stuhlbarg, Ving Rhames and Alfred Molina also appear in Apple TV+'s Boston-set crime caper about a botched robbery with spiraling consequences.
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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Review: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Rely on Smirks and Sentiment in Overstuffed Team-Up
Emma Corrin plays a powerful adversary and Matthew Macfadyen a shady tech agent in Shawn Levy's adrenaline-charged superhero threequel.
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