A money-obsessed NYC matchmaker is wooed by a financial investor and a cater waiter in a romantic drama that has its protagonist finding strength and emotional growth via a side character’s suffering.
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Wes Anderson peers into the hollowness of extreme wealth in ‘The Phoenician Scheme’
Benicio Del Toro plays a globe-trotting tycoon trying to convince his estranged daughter (Mia Threapleton) to be his heir. The film is darker, angrier and more violent than Anderson’s usual fare.
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‘The Shrouds’ introduces a new stage of grief: Watching your loved one decompose
David Cronenberg’s thriller centers on an unusual technology that allows people to watch their loved ones decompose in real time. The Shrouds is both deeply morbid and disarmingly funny.
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‘Sinners,’ ‘The Wedding Banquet’ remake, and more in theaters this weekend
Michael B. Jordan plays twins Smoke and Stack in a music-besotted, blood-drenched supernatural thriller, Sinners. And Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone in a remake of the groundbreaking 1993 rom-com, The Wedding Banquet.
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A folk legend gets a reunion he didn’t sign up for in this melancholy charmer
An affable lottery winner decides to bring his favorite singer to a remote island off the coast of Wales for a private concert. Turns out, he’s invited the singer’s ex-bandmate/ex-girlfriend, too.
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A young man’s homecoming sets off erotic shockwaves in this unsettling French thriller
Misericordia is one of the most surprising films our critic’s seen this year. It focuses on a man who returns to his small village for a funeral — only to become enmeshed in countless entanglements.
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‘The Alto Knights’ is a mob drama with a double dose of De Niro and … not much else
Robert De Niro plays rival mob bosses in a new biographical crime drama. But while it’s fun to watch De Niro argue with himself, The Alto Knights ultimately feels dubious and derivative.
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‘Snow White,’ and four more buzzy movies coming to theaters this weekend
An embattled Disney princess, a steroid-addled bodybuilder and a trapped carjacker are all at cineplexes this weekend.
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There’s a lot to unpack in ‘Black Bag’ — a witty, sexy spy thriller
Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender play a high-ranking spy couple in Steven Soderbergh’s new film. Black Bag offers Bond-style globe-trotting intrigue and marital dramedy.
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Live, die, repeat: Bong Joon Ho offers a farcical vision of the future in ‘Mickey 17’
Robert Pattinson plays a space traveler who’s repeatedly killed and resurrected in the name of scientific research in this otherworldly farce. It’s Bong’s first movie since his Oscar-winning Parasite.
