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Wolfs-(2024)

Wolfs (2024)

There are few droll joys in cinema more satisfying than watching and hearing George Clooney and Brad Pitt exchange knowing looks and wry, occasionally pointed banter. They’ve appeared in several films together, but the camaraderie stuff mainly happens in the “Ocean’s” caper films directed by Steven Soderbergh. (In the Coen Brothers’ 2008 “Burn After Reading,”

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Merchant-Ivory-(2024)

Merchant Ivory (2024)

Enough time has passed in cinema history for the name Merchant-Ivory to have become an adjective. It’s made from the names of Director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, who worked together from the 1960s through Merchant’s death in 2005. Critics use the hyphenate to refer to “costume dramas” generally, and to any historical drama

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The-Deliverance-(2024)

The Deliverance (2024)

“The Deliverance” would have worked just fine if it had functioned solely as a domestic drama infused with the thorny, real-world issues of addiction, poverty and racism. This is territory director Lee Daniels knows well, having given us a searing exploration of these subjects with his Academy Award-winning 2009 film “Precious.” Daniels made his name

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