Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is one of the most famous books ever written, and amongst its charms is the fact that it’s a holiday tale that’s also a ghost story. It’s an essential part of its power, bringing a dark edge to its fundamental message of rejecting greed in…
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There are many ways to tell that an actor is giving the performance of a lifetime, but here’s one subtle one from Martin McDonagh’s new movie Wild Horse Nine: There are a few scenes in which John Malkovich sits outside on a grassy hill, narrating memories of his life into…
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Godzilla Minus Zero had no choice: It had to go bigger. That’s because the highly anticipated sequel to Godzilla Minus One has a lot to live up to, as writer/director Takashi Yamazaki’s Oscar-winning box office hit featured engaging characters, grounded pathos, great action, and plenty to say about life in…
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When the DC Studios film Clayface begins, Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries) is a young, talented actor with incredible cheekbones and an Oscar nomination — in short, he’s feeling invincible. This leads him to the poor choice of a one-night stand with Mia (Joana Ribeiro), who’s technically the girlfriend of…
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From the beginning, there was one fight that the 2026 Street Fighter movie was always very likely to win: being the best Street Fighter movie ever made. This is because 1994’s Street Fighter and 2009’s Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li are two of the worst video game adaptations…
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Four months ago, 20th Century Studios released a teaser trailer for the movie Whalefall with an instantly iconic tagline: “The odds of being swallowed alive by a whale are not zero.” What a terrifying fact, especially after seeing the film. Not zero. Of course, the odds of it happening are…
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It’s been eight years since the character of Vision (Paul Bettany) was tragically sacrificed during the events of Avengers: Infinity War, and five years since he was (kinda sorta) resurrected by Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) during the events of WandaVision. That’s a fair bit of time passing, so it should…
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Even at half the length, Musk would not be an easy watch. I know this because when we reached the intermission for this four-hour documentary, I was already exhausted. Diving deeply into the full scope of Elon Musk’s life and career, director Alex Gibney interviews a bevy of past Musk…
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In the months before the release of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger, the movie was keeping one big secret: What, exactly, Tom Cruise’s character looks like. That has since been revealed by trailers and posters featuring his prosthetic nose and pot belly, his biggest on-screen transformation since his infamous cameo in…
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Primetime knows exactly how to draw the viewer into its based-on-true-events tale: The movie opens with a re-enactment of a classic To Catch a Predator setup, in which a man, following multiple online conversations with someone he thought was a very young person, enters a house filled with hidden cameras,…
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