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‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Movie Review: James Cameron’s Beautiful Return to a World That No Longer Surprises

This third trip to Pandora with 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' is ravishing, earnest, and emotionally overloaded.

BY Anushka Halve
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'Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale' Movie Review: A Fitting, Bittersweet End To An Era

The Crawleys face modernity, mortality (and sell their manor for a flat) in this perfectly bittersweet final farewell.

BY Ananya Shankar
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‘The Roses’ Movie Review: Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman Make Marital Warfare a Delicious Spectacle

Jay Roach’s wickedly funny ‘The Roses’ turns Warren Adler’s dark comedy into a Sisyphean love story, with Cumberbatch and Colman finding gleeful ruin in each other’s company

BY Anushka Halve
Chris Evans, Dakota Johnson, and Pedro Pascal for 'Materialists'
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‘Materialists’ Movie Review: Celine Song’s Tender But Cynical Portrait of Love in Late Capitalism

The ‘Past Lives’ director assembles a delectable cast for a modern romance that wants to believe in love, even as it prices it out.

BY Anushka Halve
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'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' Movie Review: Tom Cruise in Search of a Finale

Tom Cruise races toward closure in a franchise that keeps running in circles.

BY Anushka Halve
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'Thunderbolts*' Movie Review: Florence Pugh and Team Restore the Glory of Faltering Marvel Machine

Marvel’s latest ensemble film sidesteps formula to deliver a surprisingly heartfelt, quietly radical story about broken people, found families, and the superhero genre’s long-overdue reckoning with grief.

BY Anushka Halve
Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively in a still from 'Another Simple Favor'.
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'Another Simple Favor' Movie Review: Blake Lively Trades Her Florals For Murders and Martinis

Paul Feig returns with a sequel for his hit 2018 movie, but this time, it's anything but simple.

BY Ananya Shankar
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‘Mickey 17’ Movie Review: Bong Joon-Ho, Robert Pattinson's Goofy Drama Is an Overfull Spectacle

In ‘Mickey 17,' why does Bong Joon-ho create the space for questions he has no willingness to examine? The film, constantly on its toes, is never able to fully appreciate what it has set up. 

BY Prathyush Parasuraman
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‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Movie Review: Nothing Brave, Nothing New Despite Valiant Anthony Mackie

There was a time when the MCU promised intrigue, action, and at the very least, a narrative backbone. That time is long gone.

BY Anushka Halve
Renée Zellweger and Leo Woodall in ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’.
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‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ Movie Review: Drama Without the Debauchery… She's All Grown Up

In Bridget Jones' fourth film outing, the tone feels darker and the themes are more complex; the humour comes with a side of grief while the drama comes without its usual dose of debauchery.

BY Ananya Shankar
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'Nosferatu' Movie Review: Robert Eggers Helms A Fragile Psycho-Sexual Reinterpretation

Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu' exists on the edge between science and the occult, horror and joy, between dreams and reality, one swimming into the other, as though the boundaries were a formality.

BY Prathyush Parasuraman
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‘Girls Will Be Girls’ Movie Review: A Quietly Breathtaking Coming-of-Age Drama

Female teenage sexuality has rarely been captured with this sensitivity and nuance in an Indian film

BY Anupama Chopra
Moana 2 Movie Review
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‘Moana 2’ Movie Review: Disney Sequel Is An Uninspiring Wave of Disappointment

The voice cast of Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson and others struggle to keep afloat a screenplay that’s more cringe than clever, detracting from the authenticity of the characters and their dialogue

BY Anushka Halve
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‘Gladiator II’ Review: Thrilling Spectacle Is Undercut By Emotional Emptiness

Ridley Scott’s epic trades the optimism of its prequel for a more clear-eyed condemnation of the state of its world, and ours.

BY Gayle Sequeira
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'Venom: The Last Dance' Review: A Surprisingly Potent Blend of Silliness and Sentimentality

The Venom films have always been somewhat of an odd but ultimately charming fusion, attempting to strike a balance between deadly seriousness and sheer absurdity.

BY Gayle Sequeira