The film’s style is measured, not just maximalist, when it comes to body horror.
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Better luck in the other music category, Emilia Pérez.
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By the time it reaches its close, Hot Milk has long since spoiled into something rancid.
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One film here feels like the natural move for today’s much-more-international AMPAS.
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Huo’s second feature is attentive to the everyday rhythms of rural communities.
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Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller meet cute at the gates of hell in uneven action-horror yarn.
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In the home stretch, Zoe Saldaña has emerged as this Oscar season’s prime sympathy vote.
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The musical is lesser Kander and Ebb, but it still contains a critique that’s barely visible here.
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David Osit’s trenchant film moves beyond recounting the controversial show’s history.
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The film is a wicked embodiment of the notion of the media itself being the message.
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