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Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth pose as Thors in Thor: Love and Thunder..

Thor: Love and Thunder review: Marvel’s latest is no Ragnarok

Taika Waititi returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the jokey Thor: Love and Thunder, which is worth seeing primarily for Christian Bale's menacing Gorr.
A man in an Astronaut suit dances alone.

Apples review: Accidental COVID allegory is Lanthimos Lite

The Greek comedy-drama Apples is an accidental COVID movie with shades of Yorgos Lanthimos that is ultimately unsatisfying.
Elvis Presley looks out of a limo at Vegas in Elvis.

Elvis review: Baz Luhrmann’s ridiculous, sublime biopic

Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann throws his whole mad heart into the alternately ridiculous and sublime biopic Elvis.
Alicia Vikander wears a catsuit in Irma Vep.

Irma Vep review: A playful, uneven HBO remake

Olivier Assayas revisits one of his earliest triumphs with this HBO miniseries version of Irma Vep starring Tomb Raider star Alicia Vikander.
Maika Monroe stares through a gate in Watcher.

Watcher review: A pointed exercise in voyeuristic suspense

Scream queen Maika Monroe heads to Bucharest for the excellent Hitchcockian suspense thriller Watcher.
Léa Seydoux and Viggo Mortensen get intimate.

Crimes of the Future review: David Cronenberg hails the old flesh

The Fly and Videodrome director David Cronenberg returns to his body-horror wheelhouse with the shockingly funny Crimes of the Future.
The Belcher family is surprised in The Bob's Burgers Movie.

The Bob’s Burgers Movie review: Just a long, so-so episode

Fox's beloved animated sitcom comes to the big screen with The Bob's Burgers Movie, which is basically just an overlong episode of the show.
Tom Cruise looking stern in Top Gun: Maverick.

Top Gun: Maverick review: Tom Cruise’s superior sequel

Tom Cruise reprises the role of the Navy's cockiest flyboy in the twinkly romantic legacy sequel Top Gun: Maverick.
Rakel Lenora Fløttum looks uncertain in the woods.

The Innocents review: A wan killer-kid thriller

Eskil Vogt's Norwegian thriller The Innocents shares a title with one of the great haunted house movies, but it's a forgettable game of psychic tyke warfare.
Christopher Abbott and Jarod Carmichael shoot guns at the range

On the Count of Three review: Jerrod Carmichael’s nervy suicide comedy

Jerrod Carmichael makes his directorial debut with the nervy suicide comedy On the Count of Three.
Nicolas Cage looks at the camera while wearing a sunglasses in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent review: Nic Cage as Nic Cage

Nicolas Cage stars as himself in the mostly witless meta trifle The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
Anna Cobb stares into the digital abyss in We're All Going to the World's Fair.

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair review: Welcome to the internet

We're All Going to the World's Fair uses the language of creepypasta horror to meditate on the way the internet has reshaped a generation's identity.
Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, and Noémie Merlant walk through the park in Paris, 13th District.

Paris, 13th District review: Sex and the City (of Lights)

In Paris, 13th District, The Sisters Brothers director Jacques Audiard heads back to France to make a portrait of amorous Parisians.
Alexander Skarsgård strikes a fearsome Viking pose.

The Northman review: Viking mayhem for adolescents of all ages

The Witch and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers returns with a wild, gory Viking epic, The Northman.
Liliane Amuat and Henriette Confurius look at a spider .

The Girl and the Spider review: A glorious enigma

Ramon Zürcher's hypnotic drama The Girl and the Spider playfully bends the rules of moviemaking to create a memorably unsettling experience.
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