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Director Rian Johnson has an oxygen problem. He sometimes leaves too little air in his dialogue-heavy film contraptions for his characters to breathe. (This puts him in excellent company with the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino, all of whom ha...

A pure adrenaline hit of a movie that takes place mostly in the lethal glare of daylight, Sam Mendes’s stunning, sorta-single-take 1917 hits its greatest heights when darkness falls. A single British soldier dusts himself off from a glancing wound...

Rarely does a movie combine cinematic fireworks and social commentary as mischievously as Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite does. It’s a slick home-invasion drama that mirrors the masks worn by its characters: The film is polite until it dro...

The good news is that Bad Boys for Life isn’t as obnoxiously vulgar as Michael Bay’s Bad Boys II. The bad news is that this third in the franchise, directed by Belgian filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, doesn’t bring much that’s new to the...

“Never underestimate a droid,” we hear several times in the new Star Wars—and why would you? For the most part, droids are hard-headed, sturdy companions, opening doors at the last minute with a minimum of beepy fuss. Director J.J. Abrams is like ...