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Weekly Movie Guide
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The undercurrents of adolescent cruelty churn queasily in Charlie Polinger’s stylish first feature, “The Plague,” about pre-teen boys in a water polo camp who make a smart but awkward camper the easy outcast of the group.
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Movies that begin with a wedding often don’t bode well for the couple. In the case of “We Bury the Dead,” something cosmically catastrophic is coming: the accidental detonation of an experimental weapon that instantly wipes out some 500,000 people in Tasmania, including Ava’s (Daisy Ridley) husband, Mitch (Matt Whelan).
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“It’s like I’ve quadrupled down on the original pursuit of my life. I’ve gotten out of the pool and redived from a higher board,” says Timothée Chalamet. That high dive is “Marty Supreme,” Josh Safdie’s hyperkinetic 1950s-set New York tale of a singular striver, with Chalamet at the helm.
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In this season of best-of lists, maybe there’s a measure of schadenfreude, if not solace, to be found in other people’s failures. I’m talking about the trash heap of movies so bad that they couldn’t muster more than a star and half from The Washington Post’s critics.
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Hollywood wrapped up a turbulent year with big ticket sales for “Avatar: Fire and Ash” and a box-office hit for Timothée Chalamet with “Marty Supreme” over a busy holiday weekend in movie theaters.
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Leaves and bodies fall in “No Other Choice,” Park Chan-wook’s masterfully devilish satire with a chilling autumnal wind blowing through it.
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