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Stream it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Resurrecting the decade-dormant \u201cScream\u201d franchise without the guiding hand of the late Wes Craven was a questionable choice, and this 2022 installment from the \u201cReady or Not\u201d directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, doesn\u2019t match the ingenuity or chills of Craven\u2019s earlier installments. But it is still an entertaining goof for fans of the series, offering up sly commentary on the epidemic of \u201clegacy sequels\u201d that juice up series by mixing old stars, new faces and fan-friendly Easter eggs (a formula that, in true \u201cScream\u201d form, this film also embraces).<\/p>\n Stream it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The director of \u201cMidsommar\u201d and \u201cBeau Is Afraid,\u201d Ari Aster, had his breakthrough picture with this chilling slow burn of a horror thriller, in which a freak tragedy rips an already tenuous family into jagged pieces. All of the players bring their A-game, but the stunner here is Toni Collette, whose open-wound performance as a mother who is both abused and abusive would have easily netted a best actress Oscar nomination from an awards-giving body that wasn\u2019t notoriously, reliably biased against genre movies.<\/p>\n Stream it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n This 2022 comedy from the director Tom Gormican (who also wrote the film with Kevin Etten) sounded<\/em> like Nicolas Cage\u2019s \u201cBeing John Malkovich\u201d \u2014 a winking meta-textual exploration of movie stardom and eccentric celebrity. And it is that, by way of its cheerful acknowledgment of Cage\u2019s erratic career and personal peculiarities (and its clever use of the actor\u2019s younger, wilder self as a co-star). But the film\u2019s real pleasures come from Pedro Pascal, delightfully dim as a wealthy playboy and Cage superfan; they become an unexpectedly potent comedy team, the weirdo and the fanboy, generating laughs and good will even in the picture\u2019s more predictable homestretch.<\/p>\n Stream it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jennifer Lawrence has always seemed a study in contrasts. She stars in tough action franchises (the \u201cHunger Games\u2019 and \u201cX-Men\u201d movies) and serious dramas (\u201cSilver Linings Playbook,\u201d for which she won an Oscar) while coming off in interviews like a charming goofball who takes nothing too seriously. She finally brought that silliness to the screen with this raw, raucous and very R-rated sex comedy, starring as a luckless small-town woman who, in a moment of financial desperation, is hired to date a wealthy young virgin and, well, show him the ropes. Lawrence\u2019s performance is fearless (she\u2019ll do just about anything for a laugh), and she lands the story\u2019s later, poignant turns with unsurprising ease.<\/p>\n \u201cBaby Driver<\/a>,\u201d \u201cBoyz n the Hood<\/a>,\u201d \u201cBruce Almighty<\/a>,\u201d \u201cDr. Seuss\u2019 The Lorax<\/a>,\u201d \u201cHow to Train Your Dragon<\/a>,\u201d \u201cHow to Train Your Dragon 2<\/a>,\u201d \u201cIt<\/a>,\u201d \u201cMolly\u2019s Game<\/a>,\u201d \u201cSpace Jam<\/a>\u201d (4\/1); \u201cMegan Leavey<\/a>\u201d (4\/8); \u201cA Quiet Place Part II<\/a>\u201d (4\/12).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2018Hereditary\u2019 (April 15)<\/h2>\n
\u2018The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent\u2019 (April 16)<\/h2>\n
\u2018No Hard Feelings\u2019 (April 21)<\/h2>\n
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