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Materialists: a rickety, unsettling rom com
Celine Song’s second feature about a matchmaker for rich New Yorkers aims for screwball velocity, but the dialogue keeps missing the mark.
By Adam Nayman
Materialists: a rickety, unsettling rom com
Adam Nayman
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Ballerina: a lifeless John Wick spin-off
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The Uninvited: Nadia Conners makes the anxieties of these Hollywood A-listers feel relatable
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The Woman in the Yard: not your garden variety trauma horror
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Obituaries
Gene Hackman obituary: New Hollywood leading man who became an icon of American cinema
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Heretic: Hugh Grant uses his charming persona to draw blood in this creepy theological horror
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Oh, Canada: hits the Schrader sweet spot between earnest autofiction and cynical critique
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Oddity: cursed objects serve up the jump scares in this claustrophobic supernatural horror
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Paying for It: Sook Yin-Lee’s humane Toronto tale reflects on love and sex work
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Happyend: an impressively assured future-shock satire
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Strange Darling: gotcha serial killer thriller delights in its own wicked games
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The Crow: excessive gore can’t hide the bloodlessness of this generic remake
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The Devil’s Bath: two expertly-crafted hours of dread, gore, and emotional violence
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A Quiet Place: Day One: gimmicky prequel has little to say
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Sasquatch Sunset: Bigfoot comedy combines gross-out humour with high-end craftsmanship
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Riddle of Fire: modern-day fairytale channels 1980s pre-teen classics
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The First Omen: a surprisingly lively take on well-worn franchise mythology
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Late Night with the Devil: an underwhelming horror with an ingenious concept
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The Delinquents: a bank robbery movie that plays like an existential epic
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The Promised Land: potato farming turns bloody in this bold 18th-century Danish epic
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Festivals
Hit Man: Richard Linklater’s contract killer comedy leaves a refreshingly bitter aftertaste
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The Boy and the Heron: Miyazaki Hayao’s enchanting fable is bursting with ideas
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Smoking Causes Coughing: a poker-faced sci-fi spoof from French prankster Quentin Dupieux
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The Boogeyman: horror begins at home in this surprisingly effective Stephen King adaptation
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Festivals
Infinity Pool: there’s not much on the inside of Brandon Cronenberg’s latest – besides a whole lot of viscera
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Features
Postcard from the edge: Charlotte Wells on Aftersun
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Barbarian: crowdpleasing depravity gets very unsettling
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Funny Pages: sadly drawn boys
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Brother: an astutely cast fraternal drama
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Pearl: the gory gift that keeps on giving
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