The President's Wife (2023)
87%
4/5
“Deneuve is delicious in a role affectionately crafted for her.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Apr 18, 2025
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The Wedding Banquet (2025)
88%
4/5
“Predictability reigns, but the lively characters end up being generous-hearted, offering the audience joyous proof that gay or straight, male or female... sometimes a chosen family trumps the biological one in navigating the pitfalls of modern love.” –
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Apr 18, 2025
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The Amateur (2025)
61%
4/5
“A juicy, stunt-fueled CIA cat-and-mouser.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Apr 11, 2025
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The Penguin Lessons (2024)
80%
4/5
“Strangely moving and often funny, The Penguin Lessons is winningly acted by Coogan, who has a knack for plumbing the souls of curmudgeons and coming up with hidden gold. ” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Mar 28, 2025
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Black Bag (2025)
96%
4/5
“It’s all a parlor trick, hardly John le Carre’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but Black Bag carries its swagger lightly, entertaining in its deceptive simplicity.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Mar 14, 2025
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)
100%
5/5
“A cathartic, confident, unfussy film that brushes against the universality of death, while sharing the specificity of Zambian mourning rituals to a global audience. ” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Mar 14, 2025
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In the Lost Lands (2025)
24%
3/5
“While the ending of this boisterous action adventure is a muddle, the magic is compelling, and the movie drops the self-seriousness that sometimes plagues adaptations of Martin’s sprawling work. ” –
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Mar 7, 2025
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Last Breath (2025)
80%
3/5
“Workmanlike, well-cast and more straightforward than a James Cameron spectacle like The Abyss, Last Breath isn’t for the claustrophobic or those suffering from aquaphobia.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Mar 1, 2025
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Riff Raff (2024)
59%
4/5
“Murray and Harris are poetry in motion as an acting team, while Coolidge is kooky to the max, Union is the side-eye queen and Davidson is a deadly dorky foil for Murray. There’s no learning, no hugs, just hilarity and a cast of favorites. ” –
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Mar 1, 2025
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Presence (2024)
88%
4/5
“Terrifically edited, shot and acted, Presence is smart, minimalist, contemporary, unironic -- and scary as hell” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Jan 24, 2025
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I'm Still Here (2024)
97%
5/5
“I’m Still Here is as affecting and inspiring as any movie this year, domestic or foreign.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Jan 17, 2025
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Better Man (2024)
88%
3/5
“Despite some dazzling dance sequences and a final upbeat swing of reconciliation and forgiveness, it’s a threadbare narrative arc. ” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Jan 10, 2025
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Hard Truths (2024)
95%
5/5
“The brilliantly-acted story begins with laughs, then inexorably darkens. Legendary director Mike Leigh, 81, offers fewer answers than questions about grief and the human condition.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Jan 10, 2025
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The Last Showgirl (2024)
83%
4/5
“With another jaw-dropping performance by Jamie Lee Curtis, 66, as a hard-drinking, good-hearted, leather-faced cocktail waitress, this is a high kick of a movie.” –
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Jan 10, 2025
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Babygirl (2024)
76%
3/5
“It’s the kind of movie where you can’t help but giggle your way through the many sex scenes, and pity poor Banderas, who has more untapped sex appeal than the other two combined. ” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Dec 20, 2024
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A Complete Unknown (2024)
82%
4/5
“Both Elle Fanning (as a character based on Dylan’s girlfriend Suze Rotolo) and Monica Barbaro’s Joan Baez enchant in an immersive movie about a bygone era when Dylan became the voice of a changing generation.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Dec 20, 2024
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Nosferatu (2024)
84%
5/5
“Robert Eggers' seductive, visually stunning and swiftly paced vampire film overflows with vivid characters.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Dec 20, 2024
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The Brutalist (2024)
93%
3/5
“For me, many moments challenged my ability to suspend disbelief and sustain interest, and it struck me as an overwrought, monochromatic unfolding of persistent misery.” –
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Dec 20, 2024
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The Order (2024)
92%
4/5
“As antagonists, Law and Hoult are powerful yet restrained in committed performances that drive towards an inevitable combustible climax.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Dec 6, 2024
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Nightbitch (2024)
59%
5/5
“Brilliant as movie and metaphor -- that’s Nightbitch. ” –
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Dec 6, 2024
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Queer (2024)
77%
4/5
“In the explicit and raw drama, Craig submerges himself in the character of an unbonded, unbound, insecure, gay American on the perpetual cruise.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Dec 2, 2024
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Gladiator II (2024)
70%
4/5
“Lucius’s glorious, bloody, twisty, escapist Roman road to victory holds audiences captive from beginning to end. ” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Nov 22, 2024
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Wicked (2024)
87%
5/5
“Built to last, Wicked enchants.” –
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Nov 22, 2024
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Bird (2024)
86%
5/5
“In this ecstatic coming-of-age drama set among the squatting classes in Northern Kent, England, Newcomer Nykiya Adams, in a refreshingly natural performance that carries the movie, plays Bailey.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Nov 15, 2024
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A Real Pain (2024)
96%
5/5
“Holocaust humor is rare, but A Real Pain is a counterintuitive outlier: vivid, moving, funny and emotionally devastating. ” –
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Nov 15, 2024
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