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Author: James Verniere

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‘The Brutalist’: A story etched in stone and struggle

January 8, 2025

17. NICKEL BOYS: Brandon Wilson plays a boy navigating the brutal realities of a Jim Crow-era reform school in Florida in director RaMell Ross’s powerful adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel.

Can beauty capture brutality? ‘Nickel Boys’ tries

January 5, 2025

Timothée Chalamet in A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2024 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.

Verniere’s Best of 2024: From Dylan’s West Village to London’s Blitz

January 2, 2025

Joe Cole as Daniel, Odessa Young as Eva in "The Damned." (Photo from Vertical)

‘The Damned’: Ghosts, guilt and gore

January 2, 2025

A scene from "The Count of Monte Cristo." (Jérôme Prébois/Samuel Goldwyn Films)

Revenge reimagined: A bold new ‘Count of Monte Cristo’

January 2, 2025

A scene from "The Seed of the Sacred Fig." (Neon)

‘Seed of the Sacred Fig’: Secrets, struggles, sacrifice

December 24, 2024

Lily-Rose Depp in Robert Eggers’s ‘Nosferatu.' (Focus Features)

‘Nosferatu’: Gothic grandeur

December 22, 2024

Edward Norton and Timothée Chalamet in "A Complete Unknown." (Macall Polay).

‘A Complete Unknown’: Timothée Chalamet strikes a chord

December 21, 2024

Afia (voiced Anika Noni Rose), Young Mufasa (voiced by Braelyn Rankins) and Masego (voiced by Keith David) in "Mufasa: The Lion Kings." (Disney Enterprises Inc.)

‘Mufasa: The Lion King’: Rise, fall, repeat

December 18, 2024

Michael Pitt and Ron Perlman in "Day of the Fight." (Jeong Park)

‘Day of the Fight’: Sparring with ghosts

December 12, 2024