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Are you looking for recommendations about the best and worst in current film releases? Our movie reviews try to get past brief opinions and dig into why a given movie works, and what it has to offer.

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Kid Cudi’s Entergalactic visual feature gets by on good vibes and even better looks

Pearl is a slasher prequel that makes the original even better

Roku’s Weird Al movie is ridiculous in the best possible ways

Glass Onion solidifies Knives Out as the next great mystery franchise

Netflix’s Carter puts action above all else

Prey understands what makes Predator interesting: the hunt

Jordan Peele’s Nope is a breathtaking celebration of filmmaking as an art form

Thor: Love and Thunder’s a scattershot fairy tale about being friends with your ex

Lightyear’s a stiff-as-plastic deconstruction of heroic space dramas

Netflix’s Spiderhead makes its dystopic sci-fi vision seem playful

Nope’s final trailer reveals true horror Jordan Peele’s been hiding this whole time

Crimes of the Future is extreme surgery by way of classic film noir

Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers is the sound of Disney laughing at its own meta humor

Alex Garland’s Men has more than one thing on its mind

Daniel Radcliffe goes full sex symbol in first Weird Al biopic teaser

Doctor Strange 2 gets lost in a tangle of fan service and half-baked ideas

Hatching finds horror in grotesque acts of self-care and violence

Sonic 2 is a family-friendly speedrun through the franchise’s awkward phase

Morbius is one long quick time event about battling bad habits

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a Nic Cage meme as a movie

Everything Everywhere All At Once is charming, sprawling, and completely ridiculous

Pixar’s Turning Red captures the wonder and horror of being a teen in 2002

Kogonada’s After Yang finds beauty in the quiet dystopia of grief

The Batman is young, dumb, and full of soft-spoken ennui

Uncharted’s road to gold is plagued by its bros

Bigbug’s a charming nightmare about the internet of other people and their things

Leonor Will Never Die is what true love of cinema looks like

Moonfall is a hollow, galaxy-brained spectacle

Netflix’s The House is an unsettling anthology wrapped in cozy stop-motion

The Matrix Resurrections is more interested in being self-aware than being good

Spider-Man: No Way Home swings big on two decades of fan payoff

Don’t Look Up is an absurdist mirror of our reality — before it just becomes a regular mirror

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is a feature-length fan film

Marvel’s Eternals is big, beautiful, and empty

Dune puts an epic franchise ahead of its epic story

Nightmare of the Wolf captures the soul of The Witcher, even without Geralt

Shang-Chi made me excited about the Marvel Cinematic Universe again

Free Guy is like a AAA game: fun, goofy, and doing narrative backflips to make a guy the lead

Jungle Cruise desperately wants to be The Mummy

Black Widow injects a little James Bond into the MCU

Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils prototype humanoid Optimus robot

Google is shutting down Stadia

The FBI says it caught an ex-NSA employee trying to sell top-secret intelligence documents

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