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‘Napoleon’: Ridley Scott’s Caricature of a Conqueror

Joaquin Phoenix plays the French soldier-emperor as a petulant oaf in the veteran director’s historical—if not particularly factual—epic.

Kyle Smith

9 hours ago

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‘Wish’: Disney Trips Upon a Star

Featuring the voices of Ariana DeBose and Chris Pine, the studio’s latest animated musical shamelessly recycles fairy tales in its story of a teen girl and a sorcerer-king.

Kyle Smith

9 hours ago

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‘Mean Streets’: A Violent Vision of Friendship and Betrayal

Martin Scorsese’s breakthrough film, being issued by the Criterion Collection in a new restoration 50 years after it was released, stars Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro as two young New Yorkers caught in a web of escalating tension.

Kristin M. Jones

November 18, 2023

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Da'Vine Joy Randolph stars as Mary Lamb, Dominic Sessa as Angus Tully and Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham in director Alexander Payne's THE HOLDOVERS, a Focus Features release.

What it Takes to Make a 1970s Movie in 2023

Alexander Payne reunites with Paul Giamatti in his retro film ‘The Holdovers.’

John Jurgensen

November 17, 2023

5 min read

‘May December’: Todd Haynes’s Trenchant Tabloid Drama

Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore star in this Netflix film about a famous actress who, to study for a role, spends time with a sex offender still married, years later, to the man she victimized when he was a child.

Kyle Smith

November 16, 2023

4 min read