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Austin Butler as Elvis.

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In 'Elvis,' an icon remains an icon, and little else

Baz Luhrmann's latest spectacle tackles the life of Elvis Presley, as filtered through his shady longtime manager.

June 24, 2022
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  • Aisha Harris
Daryl McCormack plays a sex worker, and Emma Thompson is a retired schoolteacher in the Hulu film, <em>Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.</em>

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Age is just a number in Sundance hits 'Leo Grande' and 'Cha Cha Real Smooth'

Emma Thompson stars as an older woman who hires a younger sex worker in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. Dakota Johnson is a single mother who's wooed by a recent college grad in Cha Cha Real Smooth.

June 17, 2022
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  • Justin Chang
Kristen Stewart (left) is a fan of the surgery Léa Seydoux performs in <em>Crimes of the Future</em>.

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'Crimes of the Future' is a dystopian thriller that cuts to the heart

David Cronenberg's film is set in a grim future where humans, having lost the ability to feel physical pain, start operating on their own bodies. This movie mixes blood and guts with great tenderness.

June 03, 2022
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  • Justin Chang
Tom Cruise is back as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in <em>Top Gun: Maverick.</em>

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'Top Gun: Maverick' is ridiculous. It's also ridiculously entertaining

Tom Cruise was in his early 20s when he first played the cocky young Navy pilot with the need for speed. Now, 36 years later, he's back — and Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is as insubordinate as ever.

May 23, 2022
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  • Justin Chang
Jessica (Tilda Swinton) consults an engineer (Juan Pablo Urrego) in an effort to understand the mysterious sound she's hearing in <em>Memoria</em>.

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'Memoria' is a marvelously strange sonic detective story

Tilda Swinton plays a botanist who is haunted by a mysterious sound in an intriguing new film. Reviewer Justin Chang says Memoria's climax will leave your jaw on the floor.

May 13, 2022
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  • Justin Chang
Sofia Kappel is Bella Cherry in <em>Pleasure.</em>

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'Pleasure': A young woman's matter-of-fact pursuit of porn stardom

Ninja Thyberg's film about an aspiring porn star challenges conventional wisdom around sex work and women's agency.

May 13, 2022
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  • Aisha Harris
Anamaria Vartolomei stars as a literature student who discovers she's pregnant after a brief fling in <em>Happening.</em>

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Timely and urgent, 'Happening' is a film that speaks to today's abortion debate

A 23-year-old literature student discovers she's pregnant after a fling. This movie, based on Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, traces her desperate attempt to get an abortion in 1963 France.

May 06, 2022
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  • Justin Chang
Xochitl Gomez as America Chavez, Benedict Wong as Wong, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange.

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Marvel's 'Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness' is all over the place

The latest MCU film is at its best when director Sam Raimi leans into its horror elements, and at its weakest when it coasts on cameos and callbacks from a now-diffuse network of Marvel properties.

May 06, 2022
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  • Glen Weldon
Twins Joséphine and Gabrielle Sanz are 8-year-old playmates in <em>Petite Maman</em>.

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'Petite Maman' is the best — and most surreal — family movie you'll see in a while

Identical twin sisters play a pair of mysterious playmates in Petite Maman, an enchanting film that achieves an emotional depth that eludes many movies twice its length.

April 29, 2022
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  • Justin Chang
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'Navalny' documentary spotlights the Russian who dared to take on Putin

Daniel Roher's film about Russian dissident Alexei Navalny offers intimate, sometimes amazing access to the bravery — and human cost — of opposing a despot.

April 21, 2022
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  • John Powers
Raider of the lost hearth: Alexander Skarsgård rages for revenge, and his erstwhile homeland, in <em>The Northman</em>.

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In Viking epic 'The Northman,' life is nasty, brutish and short-tempered

Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) captures both the stark beauty and brutality of the Vikings in his latest film, which tamps down his experimental impulses to tell a familiar revenge tale.

April 20, 2022
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  • Glen Weldon
Dr. Michael Morbius aims to cure himself of a debilitating illness, but ends up infecting himself with vampirism.

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Jared Leto is Marvel's bat-man in the vampiric 'Morbius'

An ailing biochemist aims to cure himself of a debilitating illness, but ends up infecting himself with vampirism in the Marvel movie Morbius.

April 01, 2022
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  • Bob Mondello
In <em>Nitram</em>, Caleb Landry Jones plays the man who killed 35 people and wounded 23 others in a 1996 mass shooting in Australia.

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'Nitram' is a deeply unsettling portrait of an Australian mass shooter

In 1996, a 28-year-old man went on a shooting rampage in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people. This tense film imagines the weeks and months before the tragedy from the shooter's perspective.

April 01, 2022
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  • Justin Chang
Michelle Yeoh stars as a woman who suddenly develops the power to leap between parallel universes in the action-adventure-fantasy <em>Everything Everywhere All at Once.</em>

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There's a multiverse of roads not taken in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'

Michelle Yeoh stars as a Chinese American immigrant who suddenly develops the power to leap between parallel universes in this moving and often exasperating movie.

March 25, 2022
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  • Justin Chang

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'The Lost City' is silly, sexy, movie-star fun

The Lost City is mostly a chance to watch Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum be charming and silly together. That turns out to be a pretty good deal.

March 25, 2022
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