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Domination (and submission) in the boardroomImageWhen Romy (Nicole Kidman), a high-powered C.E.O.fortune edge gaming, finds herself involved with an intern (Harris Dickinson), her previously unfulfilled life gets very complicated in Halina Reijn’s film.
From our review:
Reijn handles the affair discreetly, using evocative choreography, softly beautiful lighting and carefully deployed depth of focus to intimate more than she reveals. … Romy may have certain needs, but the filmmaker is less concerned with the specifics of dominance and submission, in ritualized sexual favors, leashes and all the rest, and more focused on power, women, pleasure and unbounded desire.
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This vampire still has some bite.ImageLily Rose Depp in “Nosferatu.”Credit...Focus Features‘Nosferatu’In this reimagining of “Dracula” directed by Robert Eggers, Bill Skarsgard plays the menacing Count Orlok, a vampire who torments the newlyweds Thomas (Nicholas Hoult) and Ellen (Lily Rose Depp).
From our review:
The nausea Eggers and Skarsgard induce are a reason we spend time with grim art, for ungodliness to jolt you. It’s possible they’re trying too hard to jostle us. At some point, Orlok says something like, I’m an appetite and nothing more. So yeah: Maybe we’re being goosed. But again: The filmmaking amounts to something.
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Easy-listening and easy watching.ImageTimothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown.”Credit...Macall Polay/Searchlight Pictures‘A Complete Unknown’Timothée Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan during the folk singer’s rise to fame in 1960s New York in this biopic directed by James Mangold.
The event was timed to the first anniversary of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which Mr. Biden created last year after signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the first major gun safety bill in nearly 30 years. It was also a chance for Mr. Biden to pass the baton to the official who heads that office: Vice President Kamala Harris, who is leaning into gun violence prevention as an issue as she campaigns to succeed Mr. Biden.
Mr. Cuomo, an exceedingly careful political tactician, gave no immediate hints. As other prominent New York leaders pushed out statements and calls for Mr. Adams to resign, the former Democratic governor remained conspicuously mum.
From our review:
The most pleasant surprise in “A Complete Unknown,” and why it works as well as it does, is that even as it builds a realistic world with sweep and detail … it doesn’t try to make Bob palatable, nice or, finally, comprehensible in the usual dreary biopic fashion. For the most part, his genius remains unknowable as does his back story, which is hinted at only in a nod to the surname Zimmerman and a glimpse of a scrapbook.
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Not your average sports movie.ImageRyan Destiny, left, as the Olympic boxer Claressa Shields and Brian Tyree Henry as her coach Jason Crutchfield in “The Fire Inside.”Credit...Amazon MGM StudiosWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.
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