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‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ Review: Eddie Murphy Is Back on the Streets in Routine Netflix Sequel Low on New Ideas

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Taylour Paige also star in the return of the wise-ass Detroit detective, 40 years after the original and 30 years after the last franchise installment.

Thursday, Jun 27

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‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Review: Lupita Nyong’o Navigates a Waking Nightmare for a Pizza in Nail-Biting Horror Prequel

Writer-director Michael Sarnoski follows his head-turning debut, ‘Pig,’ with this third chapter of the hit sci-fi franchise, also starring Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff and Djimon Hounsou.

Wednesday, Jun 26

‘MaXXXine’ Review: Mia Goth and Ti West’s Slasher Trilogy Wraps With a Torrid Love Letter to ‘80s Genre Filmmaking

Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon also star in this Tinseltown-set follow-up to ‘X’ and ‘Pearl.’

Thursday, Jun 20

‘Young Hearts’ Review: Belgian Teen Coming-Out Romance Is a Disarmingly Sweet Account of First Love

Writer-director Anthony Schatteman’s assured debut boasts a standout lead performance from Lou Goossens as a 14-year-old boy struggling with self-discovery.

Tuesday, Jun 18

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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 10 Best Films of 2024 So Far

THR’s reviewers choose faves from the first half of the year, including a sizzling story of sex and sports, a delightful Pixar sequel and two riveting European refugee dramas.

Saturday, Jun 15

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‘Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution’ Review: Trailblazing Queer Comics Get Their Due in Entertaining Netflix Doc

Lily Tomlin, Margaret Cho, Eddie Izzard and Sandra Bernhard are among those sharing their experiences in Page Hurwitz’s archive-rich study.

Friday, Jun 14

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‘Touch’ Review: Baltasar Kormákur Shifts Gears With a Delicate Study of Passion Suspended by Time and Distance

The Icelandic director’s latest is a novelistic saga of an elderly widower who sets out to solve the mystery of his first love’s sudden disappearance 50 years earlier.

Thursday, Jun 13

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‘Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story’ Review: Liza Minnelli Doc Is a Full-Hearted Celebration That Will Hit Fans’ Sweet Spot

The showbiz survivor looks back on her life and career, her emergence from her mother’s shadow and the mentors who helped shape her megawatt persona.

Wednesday, Jun 12

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‘Inside Out 2’ Review: Pixar’s Psych Studies Pay Off Big Time in Delightful Sequel Set in Turbulent Early Adolescence

Amy Poehler is back as the voice of Joy, with a new whirl of emotions represented by Maya Hawke, Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Paul Walter Hauser.

Monday, Jun 10

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‘Memoir of a Snail’ Review: Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Jacki Weaver Give Voice to Gleefully Oddball Australian Animation

Oscar-winning stop-motion maverick Adam Elliot’s second feature tells the life story of a gastropod-obsessed misfit touched by grief, loneliness and longing for her lost twin brother.

Saturday, Jun 8

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‘A Mistake’ Review: Elizabeth Banks Gives a Tightly Wound Performance in Christine Jeffs’ Somber Medical Drama

Simon McBurney and Mickey Sumner also star in this portrait of a top surgeon under mounting pressure following a procedure marred by complications.

Thursday, Jun 6

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‘The Watchers’ Review: Dakota Fanning Gets Stranded in Ishana Night Shyamalan’s Suspense-Free Horror Debut

Fanning plays a haunted woman who gets trapped in an Irish forest with three strangers and a parrot.

Tuesday, May 28

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‘Faye’ Review: HBO’s Faye Dunaway Doc Is a Revealing Portrait of the Complicated Woman Behind the Screen Icon

Director Laurent Bouzereau takes in the Oscar winner’s career highs and lows, her personal life, her bipolar disorder and her “difficult” reputation.

Saturday, May 25

A Trans Drug Kingpin, Masturbating Zombies and Emma Stone: THR’s Critics Pick the 20 Best Films of Cannes 2024

A Danish drama about an unwanted pregnancy, a portrait of two nurses chasing romance in Mumbai and a Corsican mafia thriller are among other standouts from the world's pre-eminent film festival.

Friday, May 24

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‘Flow’ Review: An Enchanting Eco-Fable About Community That Makes Artisanal Magic Out of 3D Animation

Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis’ second feature tails a cat that bands together with other animals on a survival journey following a cataclysmic flood.

Thursday, May 23

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‘Julie Keeps Quiet’ Review: Riveting Debut From Belgium Exposes the Ruptured Relationship Between a Teenage Tennis Star and Her Coach

Leonardo Van Dijl’s first feature casts young athlete Tessa Van den Broeck as a player whose own trauma is heightened by a fellow academy member’s suicide.

Wednesday, May 22

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‘Motel Destino’ Review: Karim Aïnouz’s Tropical Noir Conjures a Potent Atmosphere of Heat, Desire and Danger Even if the Payoff Loses Steam

An uneasy triangle forms when a young man in trouble with his criminal cohorts shacks up at a seedy roadside sex hotel in a Brazilian beach town.

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‘Parthenope’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s Taste for Baroque Virtuosity Delivers a Lavish Banquet That’s Too Rich to Digest

Newcomer Celeste Dalla Porta stars in this story tracing the life of a Neapolitan woman as a reflection of the city itself, also featuring Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman and Silvio Orlando.

Tuesday, May 21

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‘Anora’ Review: Mikey Madison is a Delightfully Scrappy Force in Sean Baker’s Cracked Cinderella Story

A young sex worker’s romantic entanglement with the son of a Russian oligarch gets very messy in this screwball comedy set in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.

Monday, May 20

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‘The Apprentice’ Review: Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong Are Superb in Chilling Account of the Unholy Alliance That Birthed Donald Trump

Maria Bakalova and Martin Donovan also star in Ali Abbasi’s detailed chronicle of the future U.S. president’s rise in the 1970s and ‘80s under the tutelage of cutthroat lawyer Roy Cohn.

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‘Solo’ Review: Théodore Pellerin Rises Above a Passé Depiction of Queer Victimhood in Otherwise Vibrant Character Study

Félix Maritaud also stars in writer-director Sophie Dupuis’ melodrama set against the backdrop of the Montreal drag scene.

Sunday, May 19

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‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter One’ Review: Kevin Costner Gets Thrown From His Horse in Muddled Western Epic

The director stars alongside Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone and Luke Wilson in the opener of a quartet of films about the settlement of the American West.

Saturday, May 18

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‘Emilia Pérez’ Review: Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and the Divine Karla Sofia Gascón Light Up Jacques Audiard’s Fabulous Queer Crime Musical

A Mexican drug lord enlists the help of a lawyer to undergo gender-affirming surgery in the latest from the French director of 'A Prophet,' 'Rust and Bone' and 'Dheepan.'

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‘Caught by the Tides’ Review: Jia Zhang-ke’s Defining Theme of Modern China in Constant Transformation Yields an Elegiac Love Story

The director’s longtime muse Zhao Tao plays a woman who takes an emotional journey from her home in a fading industrial city in search of a vanished former boyfriend.

Friday, May 17

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‘Oh, Canada’ Review: Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi and Uma Thurman in Paul Schrader’s Feeble Inquiry Into Mortality

An acclaimed American documentarian who relocated North as a Vietnam draft refugee attempts to set the record straight in one final interview.

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‘Kinds of Kindness’ Review: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons Headline Yorgos Lanthimos’ Insidious and Intriguing Studies in Love and Control

Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley and Hong Chau also star in a return for the Greek director to the subversiveness and ambiguity of his early films.

Thursday, May 16

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‘Megalopolis’ Review: Francis Ford Coppola’s Passion Project Starring Adam Driver Is a Staggeringly Ambitious Big Swing, if Nothing Else

Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza and Shia LaBeouf star in an epic reimagining of Ancient Rome in modern-day New York City on the brink of ruin.

Wednesday, May 15

‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Review: Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth in George Miller’s Fitfully Propulsive ‘Fury Road’ Prequel

Tom Burke also stars in this fifth entry of the post-apocalyptic action series that began 45 years ago with ‘Mad Max,’ this time churning up a Wasteland War.

Tuesday, May 14

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Cannes Must-See Films: David Rooney Shares What Not to Miss

The 77th Cannes Film Festival is poised to serve up a feast for film lovers, including new movies from celebrated directors such as Yorgos Lanthimos and Paolo Sorrentino, as well as living legends like Francis Ford Coppola, David…

Wednesday, May 8

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‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Review: Wes Ball’s Exciting New Chapter Proves There’s Still Life in the Franchise

Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand and William H. Macy lead the latest installment, depicting a future where humankind’s hubris has led to its downfall, making apes the dominant species.