This month’s picks include a sequel to a 1980s Tim Burton classic and an animated tale of a Christmas nearly gone wrong.
Category: Movies
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9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
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‘Kraven the Hunter’ Review: A Seriously Silly Movie
Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s buff Marvel hero is overshadowed by unabashedly fun villains.
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36 Things That Stuck With Us in 2024
The movie scenes, TV episodes, song lyrics and other moments that reporters, critics, editors and visual journalists in Culture couldn’t stop thinking about this year.
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‘Carry On’ Review: Travel Nightmares Amplified
In this tense thriller, Taron Egerton plays a T.S.A. agent who goes up against an implacable terrorist (Jason Bateman). The man has a funny idea of what he wants to bring on a plane.
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‘September 5’ Review: When the Munich Games Changed Our News
Tim Fehlbaum’s journalism procedural, starring Peter Sarsgaard, tracks the broadcast coverage of the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympics.
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‘Dirty Angels’ Review: Women on a Mission
In this heavy-handed action movie, Eva Green plays a Marine who leads a squad trying to rescue schoolgirls in Afghanistan.
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‘Young Werther’ Review: Updating an 18th-Century Love Triangle
This charming film, starring Douglas Booth and Alison Pill, bridges the gap between Goethe’s novel and the adaptation’s modern New York City setting.
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‘The Man in the White Van’ Review: Sleazy Rider
In this derivative thriller, set in the early 1970s, young women are stalked by an anonymous killer.
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‘Nickel Boys’ Review: Childhood’s Brutal End
This visually inventive adaptation of a Colson Whitehead novel follows two boys at an abusive school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
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‘Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ Review: Side Quest
This anime adaptation, drawn from Tolkien’s appendices, focuses on a shield maiden, but mostly it serves as an excuse to revisit Middle-earth.
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‘Endless Summer Syndrome’ Review: Who’s Lying?
In this sun-dappled French psychological thriller, a lawyer receives a call accusing her husband of having an affair with one of their children.