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The women in question here belong to a secluded rural religious order on unidentified prairieland and the talking they do throughout Sarah Polley’s immaculately made, intellectually adventurous and politically incisive new film consists of an ongoing debate that will determine the futures of these mostly young women. Of course, Polley is…

Amandla StenbergPhoto: Cindy Ord (Getty Images)On Thursday, Bodies Bodies Bodies actor Amandla Stenberg posted a series of videos on Instagram defending a controversial DM she sent to New York Times film critic Lena Wilson, following the critics’ review of the slasher-comedy which referred to the film doubling “as a 95-minute advertisement for…

Reservation Dogs; Prey. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos Courtesy of Hulu Another week, another handful of TV and movie picks for y’all. It’s a light one, but we’ll just call it…

By Douglas Helm | Published 16 hours ago While we had a long hiatus between the second and third season of Donald Glover’s hit FX series Atlanta, the wait for the fourth and final season is going to be much shorter. So much shorter that we already have a trailer returning us to the surreal and eccentric world that Glover has created.…

Bradley Cooper’s Maestro is an inspired ode to the late, great Leonard Bernstein. It’s also a thorny deconstruction of the man-as-tortured-genius trope, replete with a compassionate focus on his put-upon wife and the bond the two shared for close to three decades. Ambitious in scope and featuring two powerhouse performances at its center, the…

Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSaveStarSolidStarSolidStarSolidStarHalf(3.5 stars)The creature-feature title notwithstanding, “Godzilla Minus One” could easily be mistaken for a 1950s romantic melodrama. On one level, it’s the story of a Japanese couple raising a small child in the aftermath of World War II. Koichi…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMarvel is reportedly “in crisis” amid Kang star Jonathan Majors’s assault trial.Majors, 33, was charged with assault and harassment in March this year after being accused of attacking his then-girlfriend,…

John Leguizamo took to Instagram to speak out against the recent casting of James Franco as Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro in the upcoming independent film, “Alina of Cuba.” Variety confirmed Franco’s casting on Aug. 4. “Alina of Cuba” is directed by Miguel Bardem, based on a script written by Jose Rivera and Nilo Cruz. “How is this…

Brie Larson and Iman Vellani ‘The Marvels.’ Courtesy of Laura Radford/MARVEL The Marvels is anything but marvelous. From Marvel Studios and Disney, the superhero tentpole opened to an estimated $47 million at the domestic box office to rank as the worst start in the history of the Marvel Cinematic…

John Oliver has torn into Warner Bros Discovery on his HBO show Last Week Tonight for 'burning down the network' after numerous projects were culled off.The comedian sarcastically said the new 'daddy business' seemed like it was doing a 'really great job' after the media conglomerate axed $825million worth of content.He joked the parent company…