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Andrew Haigh, One of Our Best Filmmakers, Has Always Worked Under the Radar. That Changes With ‘All of Us Strangers’
The King of Sad Boy Cinema returns with a deeply personal film about love, loss, queer trauma and the power of a great pop song.
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Michael Mann's First Great Biopic Found the Michael Mann Man in Muhammad Ali
In this month's Ferrari, the legendary director tells the true story of a high-achieving man with a complicated life outside his sport. It's a return to territory Mann previously explored with Will Smith in 2001's Ali, an underappreciated take on the American-icon biopic that now looks sharper than ever.
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This Was the Year Massachusetts Was (Almost) Ready For Its Closeup
A year's worth of Bay State-set dramas, comedies, and even an ironic slasher film explored the repressed emotions of a state built to contain them.
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‘Iron Claw’ and the Dallas Only the Dead Know
How the tragic saga of the doomed Von Erich clan—the inspiration for A24's new wrestling drama—mirrors the story of Dallas, a boom town that can't grow fast enough to shake the ghosts of its past.
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‘Percy Jackson’ Stars Walker Scobell, Leah Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri Talk “Curl-Offs,” Minotaurs, and Stealing Props From the Gods
A very serious conversation with Disney+'s new Olympians.
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Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell Shine in ‘Anyone But You,’ a Rom-Com in Which the Com's as Strong as the Rom
A surplus of hotness doesn't sink this winning riff on Much Ado About Nothing.
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Nine Actors Who’ve Played Pro Wrestlers, Ranked by Acting and Wrestling Ability
As Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White’s The Iron Claw climbs into the Oscar-season ring, we’re breaking down the best and worst performances in the only acting category where it makes sense to compare Oliver Platt, Alison Brie, and Mickey Rourke.
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Ryan Gosling's I'm Just Ken EP is Arguably Unnecessary, Yet Thoroughly Delightful
There is currently no Academy Award for “deepest commitment to the bit,” but the Baby Goose appears to be campaigning for it anyway.
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This Was the Year Gay Sex Onscreen Got Really Good
From streaming sensations like Red, White & Royal Blue to prestige films like All of Us Strangers, gay intimacy was suddenly everywhere on film and TV this year.
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Doom Comes to Marvel? With Jonathan Majors Officially Out as the MCU's Kang, Many Alternate Futures are On the Table
Casting a new Kang will be hard. Building up a certain classic Fantastic Four antagonist as the Big Bad for the next Avengers films might be even harder. Let's consider Marvel's options.
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This Was the Year Gary Oldman Embraced His Inner Crank
In the third season of AppleTV+'s Slow Horses and his Presidential cameo in Oppenheimer, Oldman let his nastiness off its leash, to delightful effect.
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Here's What People Actually Watch on Netflix, According to Netflix
Embracing transparency like never before, the streamer has dropped the first in a series of biannual reports on what Netflix users chilled in front of during the first 6 months of this year. Here's what's in it.
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This Was the Year Emma Stone Could Do Anything, and Did
She was already an Oscar-winning actor, but in 2023, Stone brought her talent and her clout to risky, unique projects, taking big swings and connecting every time.
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The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan Is the Very French, Under-the-Radar Action Movie You Need to See
Vincent Cassel, Eva Green, and more star in a legitimately thrilling new take on an old classic.
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Director Sam Esmail explains the ambiguous ending of Leave the World Behind: “The point is that it lingers”
So, is the country screwed? And what's with all of the Friends stuff?
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In the ‘Civil War' Trailer, America Turns on Itself, and the Plemons-Dunsts Turn on Each Other
Alex Garland's latest nightmare-future scenario drops next spring, if society doesn't unravel first.
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‘Poor Things' is a Creative Rebirth For Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos
The second feature collaboration from film's most daring duo is a graphic fairy-tale-Gothic coming-of-age story that echoes Terry Gilliam, The Wizard of Oz and even Barbie.
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After Saltburn, Ten More Creepy-Old-House Films to Keep That Gothic Vibe Going
Close the shades and pretend your apartment is a haunted pile in the English countryside where the vibes have been off for hundreds of years.
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Archie Madekwe’s Five Favorite Things of 2023, Including a Great Movie He'll Never Watch Again
The Saltburn star's year in art, TV, theater, and emotionally-devastating cinema.
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This Was the Year of Prestige Godzilla Content
In Godzilla Minus One and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, a legendary entertainer who's been everything from a metaphor for nuclear destruction to a fast-food pitch-a-saurus stomped into a new lane