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Review: ‘The Shrouds’ Watches Bodies Rot On a Smartphone App

At 82, David Cronenberg continues to bring his visual and narrative wit to bear on the flesh and bones of existence. 

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Review: The Ingenious ‘Gazer’ Shoplifts the Classics While Nailing Its Own Vision

First-timer Ryan J. Sloane fashions a murder mystery that delves into Jersey at its Jersey-est.

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Review: ‘Grand Tour’ Makes Its Own Way

Miguel Gomes tells a farcical love story that ping-pongs between colonial history and a tour you might embark on tomorrow.

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Review: In ‘The Assessment,’ A Big Brother-Style Regime Chooses Who Can Be Parents

Fleur Fortune imagines a not-distant-at-all dystopia of government agents acting like impulsive, wandering, puking, pooping toddlers.

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Review: ‘Who by Fire’ Asks, ‘What’s It All About?’

Quebec filmmaker Philippe Lesage’s isolated-lodge drama plants narrative grenades amid spectacular wildlife.

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Fifty Years On, ‘Play It As It Lays’ Shines Like a Black Hole

Film Forum presents the long unseeable tale of sunbleached Tuesday Weld trapped in L.A.’s existential shade. 

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Review: ‘The Quiet Ones’ Are Not a Lovable Bunch of Crooks

Director Frederik Louis Hviid’s heist film is frantically stylish, but ends up as half-assed as its perps. 

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Review: Looking to Be Brat-Subversive, ‘Companion’ Pushes Too Many Wrong Buttons 

Drew Hancock’s tale of a murderous robotic love doll might become a cherished B-movie by the time we hit Trump’s sixth term in office.

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Review: In ‘Grand Theft Hamlet,’ Playing’s the Thing

This oh-so-21st-century “movie” lives in an uncanny valley of gaming, role-playing, stage acting, and wanton killing.

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Review: ‘Bye Bye Love’ is Pure Snot-Nosed Indie Heaven

Isao Fujisawa’s outlaw road movie riled the age of Nixon with a trans hero.

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