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Good looks

This year was an embarrassment of riches when it comes to quality filmmaking. Long-established directors were firing...

Dress success

Subverting genre conventions is one thing. Channeling them into a wholly unique artistic vision is another thing...

Riding it out

Trey Edward Shults’ Waves is an ambitious next step for the writer-director of Krisha and It Comes at Night,...

Sharp and intriguing

In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie comes Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, an ingenious, exciting, rollicking good...

Together apart

Though Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story openly invites comments on the irony of the title—this is, after all, a movie...

Serving truth

Investigative thriller The Report cares so passionately for its subject matter that it could almost be considered a...

Dreadfully good

The best thing you can do with a Stanley Kubrick sequel is to make it as un-Kubrick as possible. Mike Flanagan’s...

Back again: Terminator

Apparently not all jobs outsourced by James Cameron are created equal. Earlier this year, we saw Alita: Battle Angel,...

Berlin bust

The good news is that you’ll love writer/director/actor Taika Waititi. The bad news is there’s no charming your way...

Snap out of it

The progression from animated family film to straight-to-Netflix series is perfectly natural. Kids want to spend more...