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Reviews of movies now streaming and on DVD by Katherine Monk and Jay Stone.

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Movie review: Wonka offers golden ticket to pure happiness

Movie review: Wonka Paul King, the director behind the warm and fuzzy Paddington movies, stretches a strong arm into the cauldron of modern chaos and pulls out a sweet, magical treat of a movie that affirms the power of a pure heart.
3.5Score

Movie review: Maestro reveals duelling Bernsteins living within a single legend

Movie review: Maestro Bradley Cooper brings a heap of passion and a stylish eye to a dysfunctional love story that strips artistic ego down to the studs.  Echoing the core themes of an entirely different film about Leonard Bernstein, Maestro may have you asking who plays Bernstein better: Bradley Cooper, or Cate Blanchett?
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Movie review: Leave the World Behind captures a very creepy Zeitgeist

Movie review: Leave the World Behind Sam Esmail serves up a sophisticated psychological thriller that nods to Cold War convention while conjuring the biggest threat of the twenty-first century: A world where money governs morality, friendships are subject to outside influence, and even your neighbour can’t be trusted as an ally.
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Movie review: Oppenheimer fails to trigger emotional chain reaction

Movie review: Oppenheimer Director and writer Christopher Nolan puts Cillian Murphy in the middle of a chaotic narrative in the hopes of harnessing the creative power of Robert J. Oppenheimer. The movie is packed with style and period inflections, but ends up an emotional dud.
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Movie review: Barbie offers an existential crisis in a pretty pink package

Movie review: Barbie Greta Gerwig strips Barbie down to bare plastic to expose her corporate stamp, and the industrial mold that stubbornly defines the female experience.
4.5Score

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse confirms the power of art, and non-conformity

Movie review: Spider-man Across the Spider-Verse Relying more on a smart and accessible script than mechanical action sequences, this second visit to the Spider-Verse is even better than the first as it leaves all expectations behind, to offer a new, bold-faced type.
2.5Score

Movie review: Hypnotic may leave you dazed and confused

Movie review: Hypnotic Robert Rodriguez directs Ben Affleck in the role of a police detective searching for his lost daughter in this silly science-fiction story about mind control, and something missing.
3.5Score

Movie Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once Is All That

Movie Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once Everything Everywhere All at Once more than lives up to its name as we enter a particle accelerator of acting and performance that explores issues of metaphysics and personal meaning. At times slapstick, others ominously bleak, directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinhart make a beautiful mess saved by the magnetism of Michelle Yeoh.
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent lands with a thud

Movie review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Give Nicolas Cage a chance to slap himself in the face, and you know he'll go full cream pie. So why did director Tom Gormican go for a dark thriller instead of full-on movie star send-up? We can only wonder as we stare into the crater of a leaden satire.
3.5Score

The Northman Cometh, and he’s got an axe to grind

Movie Review: The Northman There’s not a lot of room for subtlety when most problems are solved by bludgeoning and dismemberment, but you can tell Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke and Alexander Skarsgard are desperate to bring every nuance possible to this broad-strokes study of our stubborn primitivism.