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The Green Knight

By Hannah Strong

Dev Patel and Ralph Ineson face off in David Lowery’s adaptation of a popular Arthurian legend, with stylish results.

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

By Weiting Liu

The MCU’s first Asian superhero movie combines thrilling spectacle with cultural specificity to correct the comics’ racist past.

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Free Guy

By Leila Latif

Ryan Reynolds has an existential crisis inside a video game in this mostly entertaining action-adventure-comedy.

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Jungle Cruise

By Lou Thomas

Expectations be damned: Disney’s riverboat caper is one of the year’s most purely pleasurable motion pictures.

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Luz: The Flower of Evil

By Anton Bitel

A backwater preacher pushes his small congregation to its limits in this quasi-mystical Colombian parable.

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Jumbo

By David Jenkins

Noémie Merlant’s fairground employee hitches a ride on the carousel of love in this sci-fi tinged romance.

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Zack Snyder’s Justice League

By Hannah Strong

This fan service-heavy redux of the 2017 superhero pile-up just about justifies its existence.

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The Midnight Sky

By Adam Woodward

George Clooney directs and stars in this drably conventional sci-fi drama about the power of human connection.

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The Secret Garden

By Romelly Eavis

Dixie Egerickx outshines her adult co-stars in this pleasant adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel.

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Carmilla

By Adam Woodward

Emily Harris’ visually striking take on the classic Gothic novel fails to live up to its initial promise.

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Koko-di Koko-da

By Anton Bitel

A grieving couple embark on a camping trip in writer/director Johannes Nyholm’s folkloric psychological horror.

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Pinocchio

By Lillian Crawford

Matteo Garrone’s live-action retelling of the classic Italian fairy tale is a dream come true.

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The Vast of Night

By Josh Slater-Williams

Andrew Patterson’s incredible debut feels like a spiritual successor to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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Dreamland

By Anton Bitel

The director and star of cult horror hit Pontypool reunite for a hard-boiled hitman noir.

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The Iron Mask

By Matt Thrift

Not even a Schwarzenegger-Chan showdown is enough to salvage this unfathomably dire action folly.

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Fantasy Island

By Charles Bramesco

A tropical getaway becomes a waking nightmare for its hapless guests in this dire reboot of the ’70s TV show.

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The Lighthouse

By Elena Lazic

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe take a brutal tumble into the abyss in Robert Eggers’ monochrome nightmare.

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