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‘Wolfs’ Review: Brad Pitt and George Clooney as Themselves

They play underworld fixers in this trifle of a movie, though really they’re here to look enviably fabulous.

‘His Three Daughters’ Review: Sisters at Odds Together

Natasha Lyonne, Carrie Coon and Elizabeth Olsen play sisters who are caring for their dying father in this tender, funny family drama.

At Toronto, ‘Dahomey,’ ‘Nightbitch’ and ‘Hard Truths’ Prove Highlights

Films by Mati Diop, Raoul Peck and Mike Leigh, among others, mesh the personal and political in engrossing, insistent ways.

‘Speak No Evil’ Review: He Seemed So Nice

In this horror remake, James McAvoy plays an aggressively friendly British stranger who extends a dubious invitation to an American couple. Suckers!

‘Speak No Evil’ Review: He Seemed So Nice

In this horror remake, James McAvoy plays an aggressively friendly British stranger who extends a dubious invitation to an American couple. Suckers!

Demi Moore and the Subversive Politics of the Naked Body

She has become known for baring all (or, at least, a lot). But her work, including her newest film, “The Substance,” should be understood in...

‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Review: Delightfully Undead Again

Tim Burton has brought the band back together — Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, even Bob the shrunken head guy — for a fun but less...

‘The Front Room’ Review: A Force Too Malevolent for This Movie

Kathryn Hunter is enjoyably creepy in this new horror film starring Brandy Norwood. Too bad the rest of the freakouts are predictable.

‘Between the Temples’ Review: A Widower Walks Into a Bar

And meets his former music teacher, upending his life, in Nathan Silver’s touching comedy, starring Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane.

‘Close Your Eyes’ Review: The Case of the Unfinished Film

For his latest, the Spanish director Victor Erice, known for the classic “The Spirit of the Beehive,” weaves a meta tale of a director looking...