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Sinners (2025) 98% “Sinners is propulsive and stirring entertainment, messy but always compelling. The film’s fascinating array of genres and tropes and ideas swirls together in a way that is, I suppose, singularly American.” – Vanity Fair Apr 10, 2025 Full Review Disney's Snow White (2025) 40% “Hm? What’s that? This Snow White is not a made-for-온라인카지노추천 movie shot in Burbank but is instead a theatrically released feature film that cost upwards of $250 million to make? Oh. Oh dear.” – Vanity Fair Mar 22, 2025 Full Review The Electric State (2025) 15% “The filmmakers are no doubt aiming for that Spielbergian mix of wonder, suspense, and melancholy, but it’s all rather synthetic. Save for a few likable robots, The Electric State is charmless and curiously dull.” – Vanity Fair Mar 10, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 77% “If Pattinson doesn’t always land the joke, or if his accent falters, or if his performance (as, really, multiple Mickeys) sometimes strains legibility, we can at least appreciate the big swing. On the whole, though, Mickey 17 tests our patience. ” – Vanity Fair Mar 5, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 48% “Brave New World is a bunch of characters wandering around in search of meaning, the Marvel machine creaking loudly as it tries to whip up some grand mythos around these B-tier figures.” – Vanity Fair Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Sorry, Baby (2025) 95% “A meticulously crafted wonder, the most auspicious debut I’ve seen here this year. Victor maintains the oddball humor that first endeared her to her followers, but she also incorporates whole other, previously unseen facets of her considerable talent. ” – Vanity Fair Jan 28, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 82% “Lopez clearly wants this to be a mighty Lopez showcase, and it is. Were Molina alive today and a diehard JLo stan, he’d no doubt approve. He might take issue with the rest of Condon’s film, though. ” – Vanity Fair Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 96% “Peter Hujar’s Day may be only a glimpse, but its smallness proves fascinating. This kind of seemingly banal information is not the sort that tends not to be preserved, but it is vital.” – Vanity Fair Jan 27, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 93% “It’s a towering performance, a feat of intelligence and energy that tightly binds to all of Bronstein’s heady, propulsive style. Let’s hope Byrne gets recognized for all of that hard work in some fashion, even if Linda never gets credit for hers.” – Vanity Fair Jan 25, 2025 Full Review Twinless (2025) 95% “Twinless announces the ascendancy of a thrilling filmmaker.” – Vanity Fair Jan 24, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% “Brody and Pearce vividly manifest Corbet’s arguments about the clash between art and money, between the old world and the new. When they are blazing away on screen together, The Brutalist swells to epic size.” – Vanity Fair Dec 28, 2024 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 84% “Nothing is particularly scary, because most of the movie’s humanity is drowned out by the relentless churn of Eggers’s visual and aural mood.” – Vanity Fair Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Carry-On (2024) 88% “The film is not going for total plausibility, but it is grounded in the logic and physics of the real world. Carry-On is refreshingly old-fashioned in that way; it is more interested in actual human capacity than in what modern technology can fake.” – Vanity Fair Dec 13, 2024 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% “A Complete Unknown is, much to the surprise of this critic, not at all staid and perfunctory. Even a skeptic can be swept away by its heady mix of laidback assessment and genuine awe. ” – Vanity Fair Dec 10, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% “Most dismayingly, the grand emotional sweep of the first film is nowhere to be found in Gladiator II; the sequel is epic in length and spectacle, but not in feeling.” – Vanity Fair Nov 21, 2024 Full Review Wicked (2024) 87% “Wicked succeeds because of some unreproducible, lightning in a bottle convergences -- of director, stars, craftspeople, and high-status material.” – Vanity Fair Nov 19, 2024 Full Review Venom: The Last Dance (2024) 40% “Last Dance seems almost begging to solely be watched on airplanes, in the soporific 90 minutes between dinner service and uneasy, upright sleep. It functions best as an accidentally found object rather than something deliberately sought out.” – Vanity Fair Oct 23, 2024 Full Review Blitz (2024) 81% “Blitz does not always skirt cliché, which oftentimes seems deliberate. McQueen is not reinventing a formula, he is instead extending it, widening its embrace to be more inclusive, and thus more accurate.” – Vanity Fair Oct 11, 2024 Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 91% “Nickel Boys is the most formally inventive of its fall-movie-season brethren, a bold swing of a literary adaptation that mostly earns its gimmick. Though really, gimmick is a cheap word for what Ross is doing. ” – Vanity Fair Sep 27, 2024 Full Review His Three Daughters (2023) 98% “His Three Daughters gradually blooms into one of the most stirring dramas of the year, a sad little family story that concerns a vast universal human experience.” – Vanity Fair Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% “We can forgive a last-minute error in judgment because otherwise, Conclave is a literate treat, a movie that stirs the mind just enough to feel substantial.” – Vanity Fair Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Heretic (2024) 91% “An alternately clever and silly horror-thriller that wants to have a kicky, pointed dialogue about faith vs. reason, free will vs. preordination. It maybe doesn’t arrive anywhere profound, but it has a good time laying out its thesis.” – Vanity Fair Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% “Leigh makes the audience confront the long-held fear held by many people of us as we age, that we too might become raving cranks, made so bitter and unlovable by the steady erosion of hope and possibility, and the steadier amassing of disappointment.” – Vanity Fair Sep 7, 2024 Full Review We Live in Time (2024) 79% “I like much of the film’s drifting and darting cadence, but it forces us into a more objective vantage point. The movie remains broadly appealing nonetheless, endearing us to two people and making us ache for them.” – Vanity Fair Sep 7, 2024 Full Review The End (2024) 56% “The landscape of the film is richly realized, captured in chillingly elegant chiaroscuro by cinematographer Mikhail Krichman. Humanity’s final residence is a lovely one, and all the more frightening and contemptible for it.” – Vanity Fair Sep 7, 2024 Full Review
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