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• NYT Critic’s Pick
• Drama, Romance, Sport
• Directed by Luca Guadagnino

Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist play friends, lovers and foes on and off the tennis court in Luca Guadagnino’s latest.

By Manohla Dargis

Nowhere Special

• Directed by Uberto Pasolini

This understated tear-jerker sees a dying single father making future family plans for his toddler son.

By Glenn Kenny

• Directed by Sébastien Vanicek

An apartment building in Paris is overrun by murderous arachnids and unsubtle allegory in this fleet and efficient debut feature.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

Unsung Hero

• Drama, Family
• Directed by Richard L. Ramsey, Joel Smallbone

In fact, there’s a lot of singing in the clan whose members inspired this movie and who have racked up five Grammy Awards for their Christian recordings.

By Nicolas Rapold

Terrestrial Verses

• Directed by Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami

Ordinary Iranians face a maze of byzantine rules and small indignities in this series of gripping vignettes.

By Alissa Wilkinson

• Horror, Thriller
• Directed by Caitlin Cronenberg

Caitlin Cronenberg’s debut feature is set in a dystopian world that’s alarmingly believable.

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

• Directed by Joanna Arnow

In the sex comedy “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” Joanna Arnow keeps her scenes short and her expressions flat.

By Amy Nicholson

Boy Kills World

• Action, Crime, Thriller
• Directed by Moritz Mohr

Beefed up and bloodied, Bill Skarsgard goes mano a mano against disposable hordes in this dystopian action flick.

Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver

• Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
• Directed by Zack Snyder

A delirious, pulpy mishmash of knockoffs, Zack Snyder’s film isn’t good, but it sure is something.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

• Action, Drama, War
• Directed by Guy Ritchie

Guy Ritchie’s latest is the platonic ideal of an airplane movie, which is not exactly a good thing.

Stress Positions

• Directed by Theda Hammel

The writer-director Theda Hammel’s biting, delirious quarantine comedy skewers white gay men in a world where fact, fiction and authentic experiences collide.

By Lisa Kennedy

Blood for Dust

• Directed by Rod Blackhurst

This drug-run thriller, starring Scoot McNairy, traffics in grim ponderousness.

By Ben Kenigsberg

We Grown Now

• Directed by Minhal Baig

Minhal Baig’s third feature follows two boys living in a public housing complex in Chicago as they cope by building their own dream worlds.

• Drama, Romance
• Directed by Daishi Matsunaga

In this ultimately sentimental drama, a lonely fashion magazine editor in Tokyo meets a personal trainer with a secret.

By Devika Girish

• Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett

In this cheerfully unambitious vampire movie, a bloodsucker is shut up in an old mansion with some nitwit criminals. Will there be gore? You bet.

The Stranger

In this tense thriller on Hulu, Maika Monroe plays Clare, a Kansas transplant in Los Angeles who parallels Dorothy in Oz.

By Natalia Winkelman

Food, Inc. 2

• Documentary, News
• Directed by Robert Kenner, Melissa Robledo

Directed by Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo, the sequel about food production in the U.S. is, in some ways, a more hopeful film.

• Directed by Baloji

This trippy ensemble drama set in Kinshasa explores Congolese society through magical realism.

By Beatrice Loayza

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

• Directed by Wade Allain-Marcus

Wade Allain-Marcus has directed a rollicking update of the 1991 cult favorite.

• Action, Horror, Thriller
• Directed by Benjamin Brewer

Nicolas Cage defends his family against a paranormal siege in this derivative, low-budget creature feature.

By Calum Marsh

Sasquatch Sunset

• Action, Adventure, Comedy
• Directed by David Zellner, Nathan Zellner

Four unrecognizably hairy actors, including Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough, play mythical creatures in this endearingly bonkers movie.

The Greatest Hits

• Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
• Directed by Ned Benson

A high-concept movie about music and grief lacks follow through.

• Drama, Horror
• Directed by Zarrar Kahn

Set in Pakistan, the story of a young woman and her family, hemmed in by men, shifts from realism to genre, with heart-pumping consequences.

• Action, Thriller
• Directed by Alex Garland

In Alex Garland’s tough new movie, a group of journalists led by Kirsten Dunst, as a photographer, travels a United States at war with itself.

It’s Only Life After All

• Documentary, Music
• Directed by Alexandria Bombach

The director Alexandria Bombach benefited from the musician Amy Ray’s archivist instincts in this warm, compelling new documentary.

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

Coup de Chance

• Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
• Directed by Woody Allen

Despite its Parisian setting, the setup is familiar from any of Allen’s New York movies: An act of infidelity presents a dilemma. Some of the jokes are funny.

• Directed by Dev Patel

Dev Patel stars as Kid, a human punching bag who comes up with a plan to avenge a past wrong. The hits keep coming and the hero keeps taking them in this rapid-fire film.

• Comedy, Drama
• Directed by Quentin Dupieux

Audience members revolting against bad art isn’t a new thing, but Quentin Dupieux puts a fresh twist on that theme in his surreal new comedy.

• Biography, Drama
• Directed by Philip Martin

In 2019, the prince went on air to respond to accusations involving Jeffery Epstein. The drama here is in how the BBC convinced him to do it.

The People's Joker

• Directed by Vera Drew

Pure chaos is at play in a scrappy and unauthorized new parody about a character who looks a lot like the Joker. It’s a daring slice of queer cinema.

By Erik Piepenburg

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• By Lovia Gyarkye

Critics’ Conversation: ‘Civil War’ and Civic Anxiety

Amid ongoing debate over whether Alex Garland’s latest film sufficiently spells out its stakes, two THR critics ponder the burdens of political art during a particularly fraught election year.

• Apr 23, 2024 6:45 am
• By David Rooney , Lovia Gyarkye

‘Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver’ Review: Zack Snyder, Netflix, Rinse, Repeat

Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman, Doona Bae and Anthony Hopkins are among the stars of this follow-up to the director's space saga.

• Apr 18, 2024 11:59 pm
• By Frank Scheck

Critic’s Notebook: The Compellingly Packaged Cowardice of ‘Civil War’

Despite its sheen of boldness, Alex Garland’s film cowers in fear from the divisions that surely inspired the movie in the first place, missing an opportunity to say something important.

• Apr 18, 2024 11:47 am
• By Eisa Nefertari Ulen

‘Abigail’ Review: Dan Stevens and Melissa Barrera in an Exuberantly Over-the-Top Vampire Horror-Comedy

Criminals get more than they bargained for when they kidnap the daughter of an underworld figure in the new Radio Silence film featuring Alisha Weir in the title role.

• Apr 18, 2024 9:28 am

Critic’s Notebook: On Its 50th Anniversary, Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Conversation’ Offers a Searing Vision of Then, and Now

The Palme d'Or winner is still hauntingly relevant as a portrait of surveillance, privacy, power and the dangers of action without reflection.

• Apr 17, 2024 11:30 am
• By Sheri Linden

‘Nowhere Special’ Review: James Norton Brings Raw Feeling to Intimate Father-Son Drama

Inspired by a real-life adoption case, Uberto Pasolini’s Northern Ireland-set tearjerker follows a single parent with a terminal illness as he seeks a new family to raise his four-year-old boy.

• Apr 17, 2024 8:45 am
• By David Rooney

‘The People’s Joker’ Review: A Sharp DC Parody Delightfully Crossed With a Trans Coming-of-Age Tale

Vera Drew's film was the subject of controversy at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival, where Warner Bros. Discovery tried to prevent it from being screened.

• Apr 16, 2024 4:02 pm
• By Jourdain Searles

‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson in Guy Ritchie’s Slapdash Tale of WWII Derring-Do

Eiza González, Alex Pettyfer and Henry Golding also star in the semi-fictionalized account of a covert mission unofficially mandated by Churchill to neutralize Nazi U-boats in the North Atlantic.

• Apr 16, 2024 8:00 am

‘Challengers’ Review: Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist Make a Sizzling Trio in Luca Guadagnino’s Sexy Grand Slam

Complicated interpersonal history gets tangled with the competitive drive of pro tennis in this intense round of action on and off the court.

• Apr 12, 2024 9:00 am

‘The Absence of Eden’ Review: Zoe Saldaña in a Border Crisis Drama That Couches Its Topicality in Self-Conscious Filmmaking

Garrett Hedlund co-stars in Marco Perego's debut feature revolving around a woman forced to flee Mexico and an ICE agent.

• Apr 11, 2024 12:00 pm

‘Damaged’ Review: Not Even Samuel L. Jackson and Dramatic Scottish Setting Can Freshen Up Stale Serial Killer Flick

A Chicago detective is sent to Scotland to help investigate a series of ritual murders in Terry McDonough's thriller co-starring Vincent Cassel.

• Apr 11, 2024 10:49 am

‘Chicken for Linda!’ Review: A Touching Coming-of-Age Cartoon Caper Made With the Finest Ingredients

Directors Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s film won the top prize at Annecy and the César award for Best Animated Feature.

• Apr 10, 2024 9:58 am
• By Jordan Mintzer

‘Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead’ Review: A Remake Without a Reason

Simone Joy Jones plays the Christina Applegate role in this new spin on the 1991 dark comedy.

• Apr 9, 2024 9:00 am

‘Sweet Dreams’ Review: Johnny Knoxville Gives Familiar Addiction Dramedy Some Soul

The 'Jackass' star plays an alcoholic who coaches a softball team at a rehab facility in Lije Sarki's film.

• Apr 9, 2024 6:45 am

‘Back to Black’ Review: Flawed but Affecting Amy Winehouse Biopic Benefits From Marisa Abela’s Intensely Physical Performance

Sam Taylor-Johnson's film about the dazzlingly talented English singer who died at age 27 also features Jack O'Connell, Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville.

• Apr 9, 2024 1:00 am
• By Leslie Felperin

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Challengers

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26 Apr 2024 | 2 hrs 11 mins

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Paul Rudd , Carrie Coon , Finn Wolfhard , Mckenna Grace , Kumail Nanjiani , Patton Oswalt , Celeste O'Connor , Dan Aykroyd , Annie Potts

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The Book Of Clarence

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Akira Kamiya , Kazue Ikura , Mami Koyama , Tesshô Genda , Yôko Asagami

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05 Apr 2024 | 1 hr 42 mins

The First Omen

Nell Tiger Free , Sonia Braga , Ralph Ineson , Bill Nighy , Maria Caballero , Charles Dance , Andrea Arcangeli , Tawfeek Barhom

05 Apr 2024 | 2 hrs 0 mins

Anthony Hopkins , Lena Olin , Johnny Flynn , Alex Sharp

05 Apr 2024 | 1 hr 49 mins

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05 Apr 2024 | 1 hr 45 mins

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Michael Keaton , Al Pacino , James Marsden , Marcia Gay Harden , Ray McKinnon , Joanna Kulig

29 Mar 2024 | 1 hr 57 mins

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Rebecca Hall , Brian Tyree Henry , Dan Stevens , Alex Ferns

12 Apr 2024 | 2 hrs 2 mins

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08 Mar 2024 | 2 hrs 10 mins

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Danny Ahn , Min-Chae Kim , Hong Kyoung-in

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Mark Wahlberg , Simu Liu , Juliet Rylance , Nathalie Emmanuel , Ali Suliman

15 Mar 2024 | 1 hr 30 mins

DeWanda Wise , Tom Payne , Betty Buckley , Taegen Burns , Pyper Braun , Veronica Falcón

22 Mar 2024 | 1 hr 44 mins

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21 Mar 2024 | 2 hrs 1 mins

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08 Mar 2024 | 1 hr 49 mins

All Of Us Strangers

Andrew Scott , Paul Mescal , Jamie Bell , Claire Foy

08 Mar 2024 | 1 hr 45 mins

The Color Purple

Taraji P. Henson , Danielle Brooks , Colman Domingo , Corey Hawkins , Fantasia Barrino

08 Mar 2024 | 2 hrs 23 mins

Ricky Stanicky

Zac Efron , Jermaine Fowler , john cena , William H. Macy , Andrew Santino

07 Mar 2024 | 1 hr 58 mins

Adam Sandler , Carey Mulligan , Paul Dano , Kunal Nayyar , Lena Olin , Isabella Rossellini

01 Mar 2024 | 1 hr 48 mins

May December

Natalie Portman , Charles Melton , Julianne Moore , Andrea Frankle

01 Mar 2024 | 1 hr 57 mins

Dune: Part Two

Florence Pugh , Austin Butler , Timothee Chalamet , Stellan Skarsgard , Zendaya , Rebecca Ferguson , Lea Seydoux , Josh Brolin , Javier Bardem , Dave Bautista , Christopher Walken , Charlotte Rampling , Stephen Henderson

01 Mar 2024 | 2 hrs 46 mins

American Fiction

Jeffrey Wright , Tracee Ellis Ross , Issa Rae , Sterling K. Brown

27 Feb 2024 | 1 hr 58 mins

Mukul Chadda , Rasika Dugal , Nikhil Desai , Asmit Pathare

1 hr 30 mins

Poor Things

Emma Stone , Mark Ruffalo , Ramy Youssef , Willem Dafoe , Christopher Abbott , Jerrod Carmichael , Margaret Qualley

27 Feb 2024 | 2 hrs 21 mins

The Zone Of Interest

Sandra Hüller , Christian Friedel , Ralph Herforth

01 Mar 2024 | 1 hr 47 mins

Kelly Rowland , Trevante Rhodes , Kerry O Malley , RonReaco Lee , Sean Sagar , Shannon Thornton , Nick Sagar

23 Feb 2024 | 2 hrs 0 mins

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - To The Hashira Training

Natsuki Hanae , Kengo Kawanishi , Akari Kito , Yoshitsugu Matsuoka , Hiro Shimono

23 Feb 2024 | 1 hr 44 mins

Angourie Rice , Auli'i Cravalho , Bebe Wood , Jenna Fischer , Avantika Vandanapu , Renee Rapp

23 Feb 2024 | 1 hr 52 mins

The Teachers’ Lounge

Leonie Benesch , Anne-Kathrin Gummich , Michael Klammer , Eva Löbau , Rafael Stachowiak , Leo Stettnisch

1 hr 38 mins

A Game Of Two Halves

Saaj Raja , Lucy Jackson , Nikkita Chadha , Swaroopa Ghosh , Harish Khanna , Pawan Chopra , Rajiv Kumar Aneja , Chizzy Akudolu

23 Feb 2024 | 1 hr 40 mins

Land Of Bad

Russell Crowe , Liam Hemsworth , Milo Ventimiglia , Ricky Whittle , Luke Hemsworth , Daniel Macpherson , Lincoln Lewis , Gunner Wright

16 Feb 2024 | 1 hr 55 mins

Bob Marley: One Love

Kingsley Ben Adir , James Norton , Lashana Lynch , Anthony Welsh , Tosin Cole

16 Feb 2024 | 1 hr 47 mins

Dakota Johnson , Sydney Sweeney , Isabela Merced , Celeste O'Connor , Tahar Rahim , Mike Epps , Emma Roberts , Adam Scott , Kerry Bishe , Zosia Mamet

16 Feb 2024 | 1 hr 57 mins

The Holdovers

Paul Giamatti , Da Vine Joy Randolph , Tate Donovan , Carrie Preston , Gillian Vigman , Michael Provost , Dominic Sessa , Brady Hepner

16 Feb 2024 | 2 hrs 13 mins

This Is Me...Now: A Love Story

Jennifer Lopez , Sofia Vergara , Ben Affleck , Keke Palmer , Trevor Noah , Post Malone , Alix Angelis , Neil deGrasse Tyson , Trevor Jackson , Derek Hough , Kim Petras

16 Feb 2024

Gina Rodriguez , Damon Wayans Jr. , Tom Ellis , Augustus Prew , Joel Courtney , Liza Koshy , Marin Hinkle

14 Feb 2024 | 1 hr 45 mins

Nico Parker , Laura Linney , Woody Harrelson , Daniella Taylor , Ella Anderson

09 Feb 2024 | 1 hr 49 mins

Sakura Ando , Eita Nagayama , Soya Kurokawa , Hinata Hiiragi

09 Feb 2024 | 2 hrs 8 mins

Lucy Hale , Grant Gustin , Christine Lee , Al Miro , Jane Seymour , Michael Hitchcock

09 Feb 2024 | 1 hr 46 mins

The Iron Claw

Zac Efron , Jeremy Allen White , Harris Dickinson , Maura Tierney , Holt McCallany , Lily James , Michael Harney , Michael Papajohn

09 Feb 2024 | 2 hrs 12 mins

Archie Renaux , Camila Mendes , Marisa Tomei , Lena Olin , Anthony Head , Thomas Kretschmann

09 Feb 2024 | 1 hr 45 mins

Dua Lipa , Sofia Boutella , Henry Cavill , Bryce Dallas Howard , Ariana DeBose , Sam Rockwell , Samuel L. Jackson , john cena , Catherine O Hara , Bryan Cranston , Rob Delaney , Jing Lusi , Jason Fuchs

02 Feb 2024 | 2 hrs 19 mins

Anatomy Of A Fall

Sandra Hüller , Swann Arlaud , Antoine Reinartz , Samuel Theis , Jehnny Beth

02 Feb 2024 | 2 hrs 31 mins

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The English review – Emily Blunt’s sweeping western is a rare, sensational masterpiece

Hugo Blick’s revelatory series is a gorgeous, glorious new take on the old west – a lawless land where no one can hear you, or anyone in your way, scream

F irst and foremost – don’t let the moony opening of The English (“It was in the stars … And we believed in the stars, you and I”) put you off. It is completely unrepresentative of the six hours that follow and I want you to follow them.

The English ( BBC Two ), written and directed by Hugo Blick, is a revisionist western further revised. We are in 1890, the last days of settlement of the old west and our all-but-silent hero is Eli Whipp (Chaske Spencer), a Pawnee native and former scout for the US army cavalry – doubly displaced by the settlers’ theft of his homeland and what his people see as his betrayal of it. He is on his way to Nebraska to stake a claim to the acres he is owed for his army service, despite warnings that the white men in charge will never honour their debt.

Our heroine is Lady Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt), who arrives at a remote hostelry in Kansas from England, on the trail of the man she holds responsible for her son’s death. There she finds the manager, Mr Watts (Ciarán Hinds, in the most terrifying of all his terrifying modes), in the process of torturing Eli. She tries to buy his safety but is beaten for her trouble. It becomes clear that news of her vengeful intentions has gone before her and that Watts is under instructions to kill her. The murder will be pinned on Eli.

One semi-mutual rescue and at least four bloody deaths later, their fates – along with his quest and her revenge narrative – have become firmly intertwined. As they cross the plains in search of their different ideas of peace, the relationship between these two lost and harrowed souls becomes deeper and more tender in a way that avoids and transcends mere romance. By the end it is infused with yearning, that rare and vanishing sensation in a world where nothing is forbidden any longer, which helps give the series the edge of grandeur the genre always seeks.

The plot surrounding the emotional core is convoluted. I have faith that were I to map all its parts it would make perfect sense but I would genuinely need to sit down with a paper and pencil, and possibly a cartographer, to do so.

But it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that along the way we meet a plethora of picaresque characters (special mention to Nichola McAuliffe as the murderous Black Eyed Mog) who evoke the pitilessness of the old west and illustrate Blick’s consideration of how many of us would remain sane, and morally sound, in a lawless land where – for hundreds of miles at a time – no one could hear you, or anyone who got in your way, scream.

What matters is that the dehumanisation and massacres of the Native Americans, upon whose suffering the New World was built, is not forgotten but ever present, in Eli’s story, in the charred remains of encampments, in the cruelty of old soldiers they meet, in the stories of the people they seek shelter with. It’s not the wholesale corrective some will want, but you could say the frontier is being moved.

What matters is that although you might lose track of the details, the plot never becomes impenetrable or the performances less than compelling. Spencer, best known for playing the werewolf Sam Uley in the Twilight movies, is a revelation – strong and silent, but also seething with frustration, intelligence, grief and the rage of a good man forced into terrible compromises. Blunt is at her best yet, giving us a woman made brave and undauntable by resolve, powered by a secret whose late reveal ties much of what was beginning to feel like sprawl back tightly together again.

And then there’s Rafe Spall as David Melmont, with a performance just this side of demented, and quite perfect as a truly diabolic villain – the kind who can reach across the open plains to master the lesser fiends, the willing weak and the good men with no choice and cast the net around an approaching nemesis and bring her down.

Blick’s script is as spare and gorgeous as the landscape. If he could have spent some of the time afforded the plot machinations on interrogating more intensively the myths of the Old West, the colonial impulse, the difference between retribution and justice and the other questions his western raises, the ambition that is everywhere in it would have been even more gloriously realised. But it remains a sweepingly wonderful thing.

The English is screening on BBC Two in the UK and streaming on Amazon Prime Video in Australia.

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The experience of watching The English while healthy, though, proved roughly the same as bingeing The Honourable Woman from a sick bed. Blunt is fantastic, as are many of her co-stars. The whole thing looks gorgeous, and it has some thoughtful variations on Blick’s pet theme about what happens when people from one culture get mixed up in the affairs of another. But despite a seemingly straightforward revenge plot, its storytelling frequently turns too complicated for its own good.

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But this turns out to be a Trojan Horse situation where the horse winds up being more useful than the soldiers hiding inside it. Blunt and Spencer are just so charismatic, both together and in the stretches of the season when they are separated, that the show’s loftier ambitions begin to feel besides the point. Blick and cinematographer Arnau Valls Colomer also place their two leads into a series of gorgeous compositions. (Sometimes, it’s literally painterly, like making Cornelia appear to be in a watercolor as she arrives at Watts’ place, or turning Cornelia and Eli’s discussion of constellations into something very much meant to evoke Van Gogh’s Starry Night .) The whole thing is great to look at.

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Stateside, subtitles tend to relegate movies to art-houses, where the kind of young audiences most likely to appreciate such showy theatrics rarely set foot. Like last year’s “Napoleon,” this is megaplex entertainment at its most grand. Still, it would take some clever marketing to transform this import into a “Parasite”-style phenomenon, even if both well-made offerings have the same quality: They fill an entertainment niche that American movies have all but abdicated.

Reviewed online, Dec. 19, 2023. Running time: 121 MIN. (Original title: “Les trois mousquetaires: Milady”)

• Production: (France-Germany-Spain-Belgium) A Samuel Goldwyn Films (in U.S.), Pathé (in France) release of a Dimitri Rassam, Jérôme Seydoux presentation of a Chapter 2, Pathé Films, M6 Films production, in co-production with Constantin Films Produktion, ZDF, Deaplaneta, UMedia, with the participation of OCS, Canal+, M6, in association with Ufund, with the support of La Région Île-de-France, La Région Bretagne in partnership with the CNC, BNP Paribas. (World sales: Pathé, Paris.) Producer: Dimitri Rassam. Co-producer: Ardavan Safaee.
• Crew: Director: Martin Bourboulon. Screenplay: Matthieu Delaporte & Alexandre de La Patellière, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Camera: Nicolas Bolduc. Editor: Célia Lafitedupont. Music: Guillaume Roussel.
• With: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Vicky Krieps, Lyna Khoudri, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Éric Ruf, Marc Barbé, Patrick Mille, Julien Frison. (French dialogue)

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A main character is said to be a recovering addict

Parents need to know that Humane is an uneven futuristic/dystopian horror movie in which people are compensated for volunteering to be euthanized. It focuses on the conflict between four wealthy siblings after their father goes through the procedure. Violence can be intense, with deaths, gory corpses, threats…

Positive Messages

The movie is a clear cautionary tale about the dangers of climate change and the unchecked, unfair privilege of wealthy White people. It's also about how people somehow manage to justify our abominable behavior against one another.

Positive Role Models

Even the most likable character here, Noel, is a damaged person who resorts to violence to defend himself.

Diverse Representations

Noel, the movie's most likable character, is played by Sebastian Chacon, who's of Colombian and Ecuadorian descent. He's in a loving, interracial relationship with Grace (Black actor Blessing Adedijo); she only appears in two scenes, but her presence is important. Another woman, a chef named Dawn, is played by Korean actor Uni Park. Other characters of color appear in smaller or background roles. Jared (Jay Baruchel), who's White, tries to explain to his brother why he's not racist but uses racist language in the process. One of the movie's themes is related to the privilege of wealthy, White Americans. The movie's climate disaster is blamed by some on something called "the Asian Collapse," which causes racial hatred and violence against China, India, and Japan. Dawn's restaurant was burned down by racists. An adopted family member is targeted by other members of his family.

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Violence & Scariness

Set in a time when climate change and overpopulation have made daily life deadly. People are asked to volunteer for euthanasia to make resources more widely available. Threats with guns and knives; people are shot (including fatally) and stabbed (in the chest, hand, neck). Gory corpses, bloody wounds, knives painfully yanked out of wounds. Blood spurts. Finger pressed into open wound. Wound cauterized with hot spoon. Characters are hit in head and groin with baseball bat and the butt of gun. People punched in the face. Bloody nose, bloody tooth yanked out, blood-soaked towels. Choking. Spraying with mace. One character quietly killed by three injections. Dead bodies hauled away. Fighting. Descriptions of climate change-related disasters -- images of fires, riots, etc. Violent outbursts, tantrums. Arguing. Vague dialogue about a fatal accident. Character referred to as a bully. Character is a pharma executive whose pills, it's said, "don't work and make women sicker and sicker."

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Reference to "booty call." Dialogue about a romantic partner "having an affair."

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Language includes many uses of "f--k" or "f---ing," plus "s--t," "bulls--t," "a--hole," "ass," "bitch," "swear to God/for God's sake/oh my God," "Jesus f--k," "Jesus Christ/Jesus," "piss," "up your butt," "screw," "idiot," "hell," "damn."

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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

A main character is said to be a recovering addict who's currently not using. He met his girlfriend "in a meeting." Wine is removed from the house prior to his arrival so that no one is tempted.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Humane is an uneven futuristic/dystopian horror movie in which people are compensated for volunteering to be euthanized. It focuses on the conflict between four wealthy siblings after their father goes through the procedure. Violence can be intense, with deaths, gory corpses, threats with guns and knives, shooting, multiple stabbings, blood spurts, bloody wounds, hitting with blunt objects, disturbing images of climate-related disasters, and much more. The sibling who was adopted is ultimately targeted by the others. Strong language includes many uses of "f--k," plus "s--t," "a--hole," "ass," "bitch," "Jesus," God," "piss," "butt," "screw," "idiot," "hell," "damn," etc. There's also some sex-related dialogue ("booty call," "having an affair"). A main character is said to be a recovering addict who's currently not using. He met his girlfriend in a meeting, and wine is removed prior to his arrival. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the Story?

In HUMANE, it's the near future, and climate change has worsened immeasurably. The United Nataions decrees that each industrial nation must decrease its population by 20 percent, so the United States adopts an "enlistment" program, in which "volunteers" for euthanasia will be issued a $250,000 check for their surviving family members. The wealthy Charles York ( Peter Gallagher ) summons his four children to dine with him. Under duress, TV political commentator Jared ( Jay Baruchel ); troubled mother Rachel ( Emily Hampshire ); adopted piano prodigy Noah ( Sebastian Chacon ), who has been battling addiction; and struggling actor Ashley ( Alanna Bale ) all arrive. And, despite warnings, Rachel also brings along her teen daughter, Mia ( Sirena Gulamgaus ). Charles' second wife, professional chef Dawn (Uni Park), prepares a beautiful dinner before Charles announces that they'll be "enlisting." Dawn gets cold feet and disappears before Bob ( Enrico Colantoni ) shows up to perform the procedure. The siblings say goodbye to their father, and then Bob informs them that he needs a second body to replace Dawn's. And it needs to be one of theirs. They have two hours to decide.

Is It Any Good?

A dystopian sci-fi story, a darkly comic skewering of American capitalism and greed, and a gory horror tale, this bloody movie doesn't always achieve a satisfying balance, but it's never boring. The directorial debut of photographer Caitlin Cronenberg, who's also the daughter of legendary horror master David Cronenberg , Humane begins with a hauntingly realistic depiction of climate change's dire effects, including images of people carrying reflective umbrellas to protect them from deadly sunlight. That sets an effectively oppressive tone that carries through the rest of the story.

Humane 's "eat the rich" elements are nothing new, with the characters' unethical, inhumane greed showing through, much as they try to hide it. (Outside of Bob, who occupies a different role here, there are no middle- or lower-class people to create a juxtaposition; there's no depiction of the "haves" versus the "have nots.") The stalking-and-killing section is competently handled, with viewers' affections directed toward Noah, who's clearly suffered and has come out the other side with a measure of empathy. But since his character was adopted, the others target him. By the end of Humane , it's abundantly clear that there are no heroes in this story and that the villain is humanity itself for its general disregard and apathy toward the future and our own kind.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

Families can talk about Humane 's violence . How did it make you feel? Was it exciting? Shocking? What did the movie show or not show to achieve this effect? Why is that important?

What does the movie have to say about climate change? Does it offer any reasonable solutions? Is it scary enough to prompt action?

What's the movie's opinion on the privilege of wealthy, White Americans? Can you think of other movies that tackle this subject?

How is addiction portrayed in the movie? What are some of the other characters' opinions toward Noel, even though he has sought help?

Is the movie scary? What's the appeal of horror movies ? Why do people sometimes enjoy being scared?

Movie Details

• In theaters : April 26, 2024
• Cast : Jay Baruchel , Emily Hampshire , Peter Gallagher
• Director : Caitlin Cronenberg
• Inclusion Information : Female directors, Female actors
• Studios : IFC Films , Shudder
• Genre : Horror
• Run time : 93 minutes
• MPAA rating : R
• MPAA explanation : strong violence, and language throughout
• Last updated : April 25, 2024

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S Can we all pretty much agree that the spy genre has been spoofed to death? The James Bond movies have supplied the target for more than 40 years, and generations of Bond parodies have come and gone, from Dean Martin's Matt Helm to Mike Myers ' Austin Powers. If "Austin Powers" is the funniest of the Bondian parodies, "Johnny English" is the least necessary, a mild-mannered ramble down familiar paths.

The movie stars Rowan Atkinson , best known in America as Mr. Bean, star of " Bean " (1997), and as the star of the PBS reruns of "The Black Adder," where he played countless medieval schemers and bumblers in "the most gripping sitcom since 1380." He's the master of looking thoughtful after having committed a grievous breach of manners, logic, the law, personal hygiene or common sense.

In "Johnny English," he plays a character who became famous in Britain as the star of a long-running series of credit card commercials. Johnny English is a low-level functionary in the British Secret Service, pressed into active duty when a bomb destroys all of the other agents. His assignment: Foil a plot to steal the Crown Jewels.

The evil mastermind is Pascal Sauvage ( John Malkovich ), a French billionaire who believes his family was robbed of the crown two centuries ago. Now the head of a megabillion-dollar international chain of prisons, he poses as a benefactor who pays to protect the jewels in new theft-proof quarters in the Tower of London--but actually plans to steal them and co-opt the Archbishop of Canterbury to crown him king. And how does Queen Elizabeth II feel about this? The film's funniest moment has her signing an abdication form after a gun is pointed at the head of one of her beloved corgis.

The movie is a series of scenes demonstrating how dangerously incompetent Johnny English is, as when he lectures on how the thieves got into the Tower without noticing he is standing on the edge of a tunnel opening. He can't even be trusted to drive during a chase scene, and spends most of one in a car suspended from a moving wreckers' crane. Meanwhile, the beautiful Lorna Campbell ( Natalie Imbruglia ) turns up coincidentally wherever he goes, performing a variety of functions, of which the only explicable one is to be the beautiful Lorna Campbell.

Malkovich does what can be done with Pascal Sauvage, I suppose, including the French accent we assume is deliberately bad, since Malkovich lives in France and no doubt has a better one. The character is such a stick and a stooge, however, that all Malkovich can do is stand there and be mugged by the script. Funnier work is done by Ben Miller , as Johnny's sidekick Bough (pronounced "Boff"). After Johnny breaks up the wrong funeral, Bough saves the day by passing him off as an escaped lunatic.

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