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Steven Spielberg chases his musical dreams with a gorgeously faithful <i>West Side Story</i>

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Steven Spielberg chases his musical dreams with a gorgeously faithful West Side Story

It may not eclipse the '61 version, but this is a terrific production of the Broadway classic

A.A. Dowd

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Lesbian nun drama Benedetta is both profane and sublime—no wonder some Catholics hate it

Paul Verhoeven's controversial new film is as lurid but more spiritual than you've heard

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Jeffrey Epstein looms over the gleefully offensive horror movie The Scary Of Sixty-First

Dasha Nekrasova knows how to push buttons for the lolz, but can that carry a feature?

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With The Hand Of God, the director of The Great Beauty warmly revisits his childhood

Paolo Sorrentino’s tribute to family, Italian cinema, and Maradona is sporadically lovely

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The animated Flee paints a refugee’s story in vivid colors

Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen uses the medium to protect his subject’s anonymity and to bring his experiences to…

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Keira Knightley hosts a final Christmas in the hateful lump of holiday coal Silent Night

Santa can keep this tiresomely mean-spirited apocalypse movie

Jason Shawhan

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Identifying as an animal takes on extra baggage in the thin, iffy parable Wolf

For George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp, being human ain’t all it’s cracked up to be

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Riz Ahmed has bugs on the brain in the disappointing genre mishmash Encounter

Encounter is a gripping sci-fi horror movie… until it decides to be something else

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Halle Berry lands some big dramatic punches in her directorial debut, Bruised

This UFC-fighter melodrama goes several rounds against genre convention

Jason Shawhan

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Sandra Bullock shows off her tediously stoic side in Netflix’s The Unforgivable

Adapted from a three-part British miniseries, this thriller/melodrama seems to have lost a lot in translation

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This Thanksgiving, gorge yourself on the feel-bad family drama of The Humans

A great cast elevates Stephen Karam’s A24-horror-tinged adaptation of his own stage show

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Welcome To Raccoon City lacks the stupid majesty of the previous Resident Evils

Where have you gone, Paul W.S. Anderson? The zombies turn their lonely eyes to you

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House Of Gucci never reaches camp nirvana, even with Lady Gaga on its runway

Ridley Scott's melodrama about the Italian fashion family has its moments, but not enough of them

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Cannes winner Drive My Car is a hypnotic, beguiling portrait of life after loss

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's second film of 2021 revolves around an experimental production of Uncle Vanya

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The COVID-era satire Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn is as loopy as its title

The Berlin Silver Bear winner tries to pull together COVID, capitalism, Romanian history, absurdist comedy, and…

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Paul Thomas Anderson returns to the Valley with the funny, shaggy, scattershot Licorice Pizza

Alana Haim delivers a star-making performance in this messy coming-of-age comedy

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The Power Of The Dog drops Benedict Cumberbatch into a haunting, troubling Western

Jane Campion finally returns to movie screens with this sensual take on the revisionist oater

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Ethan Hawke tackles a dual role in the cryptic pandemic mood piece Zeros And Ones

Leave it to Abel Ferrara to capture the mood of our dystopian moment

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Joaquin Phoenix is unusually grounded in the family drama C’mon C’mon

Having made films about his mother and father, Mike Mills turns his attention to the uncle

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Will Smith knows best as the father of Venus and Serena in King Richard

It's more interesting than the average sports biopic, but still plays perilously close to hagiography

Jesse Hassenger

11/16/21 2:55PM

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