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THE PALE BLUE EYE dir. Scott Cooper, starring Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Lucy Boynton, and Toby Jones The Pale Blue Eye, a thriller set in the 1800s from writer/director Scott Cooper, opens on a cadet at West Point whose body slowly turns as he dangles limp from...

BABYLON dir. Damien Chazelle, starring Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, and Jovan Adepo Babylon, Damien Chazelle's ode to Classic Hollywood, tells a number of semi interweaving stories of multiple people caught up in various stages of the film industry during the upheaval of the silent era...

AVATAR: WAY OF WATER dir. James Cameron, starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Cliff Curtis, Stephen Lang, et al Set over a decade after the events of 2009's Avatar, Way of the Water focuses on Jake Sully and his family as they're forced to flee...

EMPIRE OF LIGHT dir. Sam Mendes, starring Olivia Colman, Michaeal Ward, Colin Firth, and Toby Jones Empire of Light, the fifth pairing between director Sam Mendes and legendary director of photography Roger Deakins, takes place in the 1980s focused on Hilary Small (Colman), lonely and drifting in...

THE FABELMANS dir. Steven Spielberg, starring Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, and Paul Dano The Fabelmans, a coming-of-age tale about a young boy who discovers what would be his lifelong passion of filmmaking and storytelling, is set in the 1960s as Sammy Fabelman navigates life through his formative...

GLASS ONION dir. Rian Johnson, starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monae, Kathryn Hahn, et al. Glass Onion, the sequel to the 2019 smash hit murder mystery Knives Out, sees the return of Benoit Blanc as he's invited to a private Greek island to participate in a...

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER dir. Ryan Coogler, starring Letitia Wright, Tenoch Huerta, Danai Gurira, Angela Bassett, et al Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will be forever remembered as The Movie Without Chadwick Boseman. This is an unfortunate shadow that casts a pall over the film's entire first act,...

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER dir. Ryan Coogler, starring Letitia Wright, Tenoch Huerta, Danai Gurira, Angela Bassett, et al Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will be forever remembered as The Movie Without Chadwick Boseman. This is an unfortunate shadow that casts a pall over the film's entire first act,...

THE MALTESE FALCON dir. John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet The Maltese Falcon, an adaptation of the classic Dashiell Hammett crime novel, stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Sam Spade, Hammett's greatest creation. Spade is met by damsel Ruth Wonderly with...

TAR dir. Todd Field, starring Cate Blanchett Tar, a film centered on fictitious music composer Lydia Tar as she prepares a recording of Gusatv Mahler's Symphony No. 5, brings audiences one of the year's most fascinating character examinations. Starting with a symposium conducted by the New Yorker's...