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Jane Fonda guides Greenpeace's first feature documentary through the Gulf Coast's LNG boom, then steps aside and lets the people living downwind tell the story.
Most people under 30 know Jimmy Stewart as "the guy from the Christmas movie." KJ Apa's "Jimmy" shows them the war hero and screen pioneer they never met.
Most people think they already know Muhammad Ali. They know the poems and the predictions. They know the shuffle and the "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Winning was the easy part.
For three seasons, "The Gilded Age" was a siege. Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) hammered at the gates of old New York with ballrooms, opera boxes, and, finally, a duke for her daughter.
New York has always been a city that eats its own. Neighborhoods turn over, storefronts flip, and the people who set the rhythm of a block get priced out of the song. Noah Segan's "The Only Living Pickpocket in New York" understands that a city's soul was never just its skyline.
Tom Cruise gives his best performance since 'Magnolia' as oil baron Digger Rockwell in 'Digger,' Alejandro G. Iñárritu's wildly unhinged satire.
Robert Pattinson plays Dateline's Chris Hansen in Lance Oppenheim's 'Primetime,' a look at what 'To Catch a Predator' fame did to the man at its center.
Brad Pitt and his combat dog, Odin, carry David Ayer's nearly wordless Alaskan survival thriller, and their bond gives it real emotional force.
The new 'A Different World' isn't a nostalgia copy. By its fourth episode, the series claims its own voice for a new generation of HBCU students.
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return as the Owens sisters. 'Practical Magic 2' doesn't match the 1998 original, but it's still a good time.
Steven Spielberg's alien-disclosure thriller isn't his maximum voltage, but 'Disclosure Day' is Spielberg remembering who he is, and it lands with force.
'House of the Dragon' Season 3 finally delivers the war it promised, opening with the Battle of the Gullet. It's the payoff season fans waited for.
Disney's live-action 'Moana' has an honorable Pacific Islander cast and a standout newcomer, but it never answers why the remake exists.
Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel lead David Lowery's A24 psychodrama 'Mother Mary,' a strange, hypnotic film that will divide audiences.
Shot entirely on IMAX film, Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey,' starring Matt Damon, is breathtaking, at times exhausting and ultimately satisfying.
Tom Holland's Peter Parker swings alone in 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' the best Spider-Man outing yet and one of the summer's strongest comic book movies.
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