Weighed down by its deliberately conventional plotting, this Nicolas Cage meta movie still amuses, thanks largely to Cage and Pedro Pascal’s easygoing chemistry.
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Robert Eggers’ The Northman is a violent Viking epic that offers a portrait of the past as an alien experience yet recognizably human.
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Daniel Roher’s film is an exciting profile of a famous political dissident.
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A Symphony for a Common Man persuasively connects the world in the wake of 9/11 to the world of today.
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An impressionistic portrait of three youths amid the landscape of contemporary urban Russia.
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This documentary on the phenomenon of chronic Lyme disease may not make a slam dunk case, but it offers plenty of musings on the nature of medical diagnosis and treatment for a society emerging from a global pandemic.
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This avant-garde documentary about the decommissioning of a nuclear power plant asks the viewer for total surrender, but doesn’t earn it.
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Matt Sarnacki’s documentary traces the explosive fallout of the murder of Slovakian journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová on February 21, 2018.
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Sean Wang’s film provides a concrete example for abstract discussions of “global supply chains.”
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This adaptation of the popular graphic novel series for kids is somewhat charming, but still falls prey to many of today’s worst excesses in contemporary children’s animated fare.
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Cody Sheehy’s documentary about Dr. He Jiankui is saved by the strength of its subject matter.
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Shameela Seedat’s African Moot uses its seemingly low stakes competition as a microcosm for the larger legal world.
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Windfall is a minimalist thriller whose modest dramatic tension is thrown off balance by its miscasting.
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Netflix’s stop-motion anthology film is often chilling, occasionally amusing, and visually intricate.
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Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood offers a warm hug of 1960s space age nostalgia.
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The Netflix horror series Archive 81 demonstrates how the works of H. P. Lovecraft are essential reference points for contemporary found-footage horror.
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Ti West’s X is a nasty, entertaining slasher with well-developed characters and some surprising moral commentary.
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The Batman captures the character of the Dark Knight as well as the mood of our current darkening age.
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Aren offers his predictions for the 2022 Oscars, as well as his personal picks for each category.
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Matt Reeves’s take on Batman is brooding, stylish, and refreshingly cinematic.
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