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Gary M. Kramer is a writer and film critic based in Philadelphia. Follow him on Twitter.

Sheila Francisco in "Leonor Will Never Die" (Music Box Films)

“Leonor Will Never Die” filmmaker on how she created her dreamy “action star grandma”

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Emma Corrin as Lady Chatterley and Jack O'Connell as Oliver Mellors in "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (Courtesy of Netflix)

“Lady Chatterley’s Lover” director on sensuality and “a woman who takes ownership of her body”

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Jeremy Pope and Raul Castillo in "The Inspection" (A24)

“The Inspection” and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell for a queer Black man: “Boot camp is brainwashing”

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Bad Axe (IFC Films)

“Can we even break bread together?”: Enduring the American Dream in a Michigan family restaurant

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Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy in "The Menu" (Eric Zachanowich/Searchlight Pictures)

“The Menu” director on his film’s crossover with “Succession,” flavored by “corrosive” egos

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Eo (Sideshow/Janus Films)

“EO” is the gorgeously hypnotic drama about a donkey whose journey will break your heart

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Zar Amir Ebrahimi in "Holy Spider" (Utopia)

“Holy Spider” examines a “serial killer society,” in which Iranian sex workers are targeted

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Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain in "The Good Nurse" (JoJo Whilden/Netflix)

In Netflix’s uneasy “The Good Nurse,” Jessica Chastain suspects Eddie Redmayne of killing patients

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Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke in “Raymond & Ray" (Apple TV+)

In “Raymond & Ray,” adult sons must bury their well-liked dad who was “inarguably a monster” to them

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Margaret Qualley in "Stars at Noon" (A24)

“They are both lying”: Claire Denis on creating ambiguous tension between her “Stars at Noon” lovers

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Decision to Leave (MUBI)

Park Chan-wook’s mesmerizing “Decision to Leave” is a dreamy seduction that plays with our trust

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Alcarras (MUBI)

“Alcarràs” filmmaker on farming families losing “this way of life” in Catalonia

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Sinéad O’Connor performing in Dublin at the Olympic Ballroom in 1988, as seen in "Nothing Compares" (Independent News and Media/Showtime)

Sinéad O’Connor “refused to play the game”: “Nothing Compares” filmmaker on the bold non-conformist

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Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe in "Blonde" (Netflix)

“Blonde”: Marilyn Monroe and viewers deserve better than this unsubtle mess of sex and suffering

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Kathleen Turner in "The Swearing Jar" (Gravitas Ventures)

Kathleen Turner on loving Marvel and disbelief at Roe v. Wade repeal: “We are not simply vessels”

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N.T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan Teja in "RRR" (Raftar Creations)

From “Black Panther” to “RRR,” the new “Story of Film” honors innovation, influence of global cinema

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Susie Searches (Courtesy of Magnetic Labs)

“Susie Searches”: A cautionary tale of a podcaster who finds a missing student & “insta-celebrity”

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Naomi Watts in "Goodnight Mommy" (Prime Video)

In “Goodnight Mommy,” Naomi Watts is drawn to her character’s “terrifying and confusing” behavior

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Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan in the film "See How They Run" (Photo by Parisa Taghizadeh/20th Century Studios)

“See How They Run” is a comic whodunit that falls flat except for the dead guy

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Thandiwe Newton in "God's Country" (Courtesy of GC Film, LLC. An IFC Films release)

“It’s America’s genre”: Thandiwe Newton defends her land in “God’s Country,” a modern-day western

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Ben Kingsley and Barbara Sukowa in "Dalíland" (Rekha Garton and Marcel Zyskind)

“It’s very complicated”: Salvador Dalí biopic delves into odd and kinky relationship with wife Gala

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Cliff Curtis as Taffy in "Muru" (Jawbone Pictures, Wheke Group Limited / Christopher Pryor)

Cliff Curtis on his “slow burn” Maori cop thriller “Muru” and how it’s like “Avatar”

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Justin Long as Hap Jackson and Kate Bosworth as Mina Murray in "House of Darkness" (Saban Films)

Neil LaBute talks “House of Darkness,” his modern take on “Dracula” that flips the power dynamic

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The Grab (Jonathan Ingalls / Courtesy of Center for Investigative Reporting Studios)

“This is where WW III starts”: “The Grab” filmmaker on the urgent scarcity created by the powerful

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