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Photo: Brook Rushton/Sony Pictures This review was published on December 23, 2023. As of April 23, Anyone But You is streaming on Netflix. Anyone But...
An Exploited Neighborhood, Seen Through Children’s Eyes
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics In We Grown Now, elementary-school-age best friends Malik (Blake Cameron James) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez) attend the funeral of another...
Challengers Is Almost a Sexy Movie
Photo: Niko Tavernise/MGM What makes for a great cinematic kiss? The kind of kiss that enraptures an audience because they can feel it in their...
Guy Ritchie Goes Brutally Posh
Photo: Daniel Smith/Lionsgate Every line out of Henry Cavill’s mouth in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare goes something like “Cheerio, lads, jolly good to have...
Monkey Man Is a Solid Action Thriller, But It Clearly Wants to Be More
Dev Patel in Monkey Man.Photo: Universal Pictures One day, Dev Patel will surely direct a great movie. He clearly has the talent, as evidenced by...
Behold, an Actually Good Omen Movie
Nell Tiger Free in The First Omen.Photo: 20th Century Fox At some point, we should probably have a conversation about how our culture has now...
With The Old Oak, Ken Loach Goes Out on a Hopeful Note
The Old Oak.Photo: Zeitgeist Films In 1984, the British filmmaker Ken Loach made one of his most beautiful and underdiscussed pictures, an hour-long television documentary...
A Sad-Eyed Josh O’Connor Goes Tomb-Raiding in the Lovely, Mysterious La Chimera
Alice Rohrwacher’s playful, rambling new film follows a man who robs graves to find his way into the next world.Photo: The Match Factory Alice Rohrwacher’s...
Lisa Frankenstein Is Strictly a Mall-Goth Affair
Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse star in a disappointingly flimsy horror comedy about a teen loner and her undead companion.Photo: Michele K. Short/Focus Features This...
Wicked Little Letters Should’ve Been for the Sickos
There’s a great psychosexual drama lurking inside this otherwise serviceable trifle starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley.Photo: Sony Pictures For the most part, Wicked Little...