‘Mutt’ Review: A Young Trans Man Tackles Multiple Crises in a Heartfelt Feature Debut
Lio Mehiel plays a trans man in his mid-20s grappling with complicated family relationships in Vuk Lungulov-Klotz's film.
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‘My Animal’ Review: Amandla Stenberg in a Moody Queer Werewolf Thriller
The 'Bodies Bodies Bodies' actress and costar Bobbi Salvor Menuez play two crazy small-town kids in love in Jacqueline Castel's feature debut.
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‘Scrapper’ Review: Harris Dickinson in a Stylish but Strenuously Quirky Father-Daughter Dramedy
The 'Triangle of Sadness' leading man stars as an absentee dad who comes back to help out his plucky daughter in Charlotte Regan's feature debut.
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‘The Persian Version’ Review: An Effervescent Mother-Daughter Dramedy Spanning Decades, Continents and Cultures
Maryam Keshavarz's film about Iranian immigrants in New York and New Jersey features a protagonist who never feels entirely at home in either America or Iran.
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‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’ Review: A Vivid Portrait of a Pioneer of the Female Orgasm
Documentarian Nicole Newnham (‘Crip Camp’) delves into the fascinating life of feminist sexologist Shere Hite, with Dakota Johnson lending her voice for readings from Hite's writings.
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All 70 Marvel Movies Ranked Worst to Best
After over two decades of big-screen blockbusters, the Marvel behemoth has finally started getting serious about TV, making miniseries and ongoing shows that contribute as much to giant multi-movie story arcs as the actual films do. (Rumor has it that Marvel still prints illustrated versions of these stories in paper form, and that teenagers who […]
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All 50 DC Comics Movies Ranked Worst to Best
Though DC comic books yielded beloved big-screen adaptations decades before the competition at Marvel, corporate decisionmakers have failed so far to establish a satisfying “cinematic universe” (ugh) the way the other guys have. Judging the merits of one DC movie against the rest is more like judging individual creative works than ranking contemporary Marvel movies, […]
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‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Review: Stop-Motion Spin on the Classic Dazzles Despite Indulgences
The voice cast of the director's Netflix-produced take on the tale includes Ewan McGregor, Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchett, the last impersonating a monkey.
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‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical’ Review: Emma Thompson Goes Big and Bad in Brashly Entertaining Netflix Adaptation
Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough round out the supporting cast with Alisha Weir in the title role in this film based on the stage musical, premiering at the London Film Festival.
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‘Allelujah’ Review: Judi Dench, Jennifer Saunders in Melodramatic Tribute to Britain’s National Health Service
Derek Jacobi and Russell Tovey also appear in the large ensemble cast of Richard Eyre's screen adaptation of the recent Alan Bennett play about the NHS.
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‘Ticket to Paradise’ Review: Julia Roberts and George Clooney Reunite in a Frothy, Flawed Rom-Com
The stars play a long-divorced couple who come together to stop their daughter from getting married in this Bali-set romantic comedy from Ol Parker.
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‘The Listener’ Review: Tessa Thompson Anchors Steve Buscemi’s Sparse Study of a Crisis Hotline
Rebecca Hall and Margaret Cho voice some of the troubled souls who call in to speak to a helpline worker in this film premiering in Venice.
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