Critics’ Conversation: The Great Film Performances of 2023
THR film reviewers delight in an assortment of deliciously unlikable lead turns, single out stars delivering career bests (a wild Emma Stone, a wily Natalie Portman) and celebrate new and rising...
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Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, Holt McCallany and Lily James also star in the elegiac salute to the Von Erichs, a Texas sports dynasty walloped by a string of tragedies.
View ArticleHollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2023
A romantic collision of past and present, a subversive feminist fairy tale, a metaphysical ghost story, an epic retelling of a horrific footnote in American history and a sublime anti-rom-com are among...
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Sofia Boutella leads a band of insurgents taking a stand to protect a farming community from the evil empire in the grunge action auteur’s Netflix sci-fi movie.
View ArticleHollywood’s 20 Most Erotic Movies, Ranked
In current Oscar contender ‘Poor Things,’ Emma Stone plays a reanimated Victorian woman with a voracious erotic appetite. THR’s chief film critic ranks 20 other sizzling movies in which Hollywood said...
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Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks and Colman Domingo also star in Blitz Bazawule’s retelling of the beloved Alice Walker novel, adapted from the Tony-winning Broadway show.
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Having drawn from ‘The Scarlet Letter’ in ‘Easy A,’ Will Gluck now tries a contemporary Shakespearian revamp, dispatching an antagonistic couple to an Australian playground.
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Ruth Negga and Himesh Patel also star in the Netflix original, with 'Schitt's Creek' co-creator Levy as an artist who spends a year mourning his husband before making a startling discovery about their...
View Article‘Mean Girls’ Review: Tina Fey’s Regurgitated Movie Musical Is a Tuneless Mess
Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp and Auli’i Cravalho head the cast of this adaptation of the Broadway show based on the 2004 teen comedy.
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Josh Hutcherson, Jeremy Irons and Phylicia Rashad also star in this body pileup orchestrated by a retired government killing machine taking down a massive phishing scam.
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Writer-director-costar Theda Hammel casts a satirical gaze at millennial existential crisis in this film set in Brooklyn during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown.
View Article‘Thelma’ Review: June Squibb Takes Charge in Sweet, Spirited Action Movie for...
Fred Hechinger, Clark Gregg, Parker Posey and the late Richard Roundtree also star in Josh Margolin’s account of an elderly widow going after the scammer who duped her.
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Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck weave four interconnected stories built around the underdog theme in this gonzo action comedy, also starring Jay Ellis.
View Article‘Sujo’ Review: A Simmering Coming-of-Age Portrait of a Mexican Youth Orphaned...
Writer-directors Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez follow their collaboration on ‘Identifying Features’ with another drama of desolation and lawlessness, this time illuminated by a resilient spirit.
View Article‘Gaucho Gaucho’ Review: A Stirring Cowboy Community Portrait of Uncommon...
Documakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw follow ‘The Truffle Hunters’ with an Argentinian Western that captures both the wild spirit and the discipline of its subjects in stunning B&W images.
View Article‘Love Me’ Review: Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun Are Wasted in a Suffocating...
The debut feature from Sam and Andy Zuchero is a sci-fi love story exploring the intersection between technology and identity.
View Article‘The Outrun’ Review: Saoirse Ronan Is a Turbulent Force as a Recovering...
Nora Fingscheidt’s drama traces a damaged young woman’s rocky path toward wholeness against the windswept landscapes of her birthplace on Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
View Article‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ Review: Lionel Richie Is an Engaging Guide...
Bao Nguyen’s Netflix doc chronicles the unprecedented gathering of many of the top American music artists of the 1980s to record the earworm charity single.
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Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan and newcomer Callina Liang star in this haunted house chiller about a family that appears on the brink of falling apart.
View Article‘Handling the Undead’ Review: Renate Reinsve in an Unsettling Arthouse Zombie...
The ‘Worst Person in the World’ discovery is joined by another standout from that cast, Anders Danielsen Lie, in this adaptation of the novel by ‘Let the Right One In’ author John Ajvide Lindqvist.
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