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Author: James Verniere

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Charlotte (Julia Garner), Ginger (Matilda Firth) and Blake (Christopher Abbott) in "Wolf Man," directed by Leigh Whannell. (Nicola Dove/Universal Pictures)

‘Wolf Man’: A monster embarrassment

January 16, 2025

A scene from "Grand Theft Hamlet." (Mubi)

Hamlet hijacked: When Shakespeare crashes into ‘Grand Theft Auto’

January 16, 2025

Jonno Davies as Robbie Williams in "Better Man." (Paramount Pictures)

‘Better Man’: Robbie Williams goes bananas

January 9, 2025

3. HARD TRUTHS: Mike Leigh’s compassionate and sometimes comical character study of a woman struggling (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) with depression opens in Boston January 10. (Simon Mein/Bleecker Street)

‘Hard Truths’: You can’t break the ties that bind

January 8, 2025

‘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