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

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Javier Bardem in "The Good Boss" (Cohen Media)

Javier Bardem on “The Good Boss” humor: Humans love “seeing people suffer when we see they are safe”

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Emile Hirsch and Kate Bosworth in "The Immaculate Room" (Screen Media)

The intriguing, well-acted “Immaculate Room” isolates a couple for 50 days as a test of resolve

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Bloom Up: A Swinger Couple Story (Kino Lorber)

Swinger film “Bloom Up” explores polyamory with a couple whose love is “really, really pure”

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Free Chol Soo Lee (Grant Din)

“Free Chol Soo Lee” investigates “what went wrong” in 1973’s forgotten conviction of an innocent man

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Patton Oswalt in "I Love My Dad" (Magnolia Pictures)

Patton Oswalt talks lying, comic books and catfishing in his new cringe comedy “I Love My Dad”

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brad Pitt in "Bullet Train" (Scott Garfield/Sony Pictures)

Brad Pitt hops aboard the ridiculous, rollicking “Bullet Train” packed with gleefully violent stars

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Carrie Preston as Cora Whistler, Anna Chlumsky as Molly, Boone Platt as Zane, Kevin Bacon as Owen Whistler in "They/Them" (Josh Stringer/Blumhouse)

Conversion camp horror flick “They/Them” is a crafty, killer good time

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Ashton Kutcher as Quentin Sellers and B.J. Novak as Ben Manalowitz in "Vengeance" (Patti Perret/Focus Features)

In crime comedy “Vengeance,” B.J. Novak dares to mess with Texas while also skewering all the rest

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Ryan Gosling as Six in "The Gray Man" (Stanislav Honzik/Netflix)

Netflix’s “The Gray Man”: Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans go loud in Russos’ propulsive action flick

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Mia Isaac and John Cho in "Don't Make Me Go" (Amazon Studios)

John Cho on road trips, his go-to karaoke songs and approach to life: “I’m very open to risk”

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Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) in "Where the Crawdads Sing" (Sony Pictures)

“Where the Crawdads Sing” is a stupefyingly bad adaptation of spoon-fed melodrama

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Lesley Manville as Mrs. Harris in "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris" (Focus Features)

Lesley Manville is endearing in “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” a feel-good couture fairy tale

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Alice Krige in "She Will" (IFC Midnight)

“She Will” star Alice Krige is haunted and haunting: “There must be something a bit odd about me”

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Vincent Lindon as Jean and Juliette Binoche as Sara in Claire Denis' "Both Sides of the Blade" (Courtesy of Curiosa Films. An IFC Films release)

Juliette Binoche is torn between two lovers in Claire Denis’ potent “Both Sides of the Blade”

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Gracija Filipovic in "Murina" (Kino Lorber)

“Murina” filmmaker: “You need to be a ‘dangerous’ woman in Croatia to survive”

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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (A24)

Jenny Slate on voicing the melancholy “Marcel the Shell” and creating a laugh “that’s not creepy”

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Asa Butterfield as Billy Rubin, Fatma Mohamed as Elle Di Elle, and Ariane Labed as Lamina Propria in Peter Strickland’s "Flux Gourmet" (IFC Midnight)

“Flux Gourmet” is an absurdist adventure in pretentious performance art made from food sounds

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Official Competition (Manolo Pavon / IFC Films)

Penélope Cruz dominates in “Official Competition,” a delightful satire about ego and filmmaking

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Acidman (Photo courtesy of John Matysiak)

Thomas Haden Church on his offbeat new “Acidman” role: “There is clearly something wrong with Lloyd”

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Director Andrew Ahn and Noah (Joel Kim Booster) behind the scenes of "Fire Island" (Jeong Park/Searchlight)

Behind the scenes of “Fire Island,” from filming sexy rain encounters to endearing dance-offs

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Body Parts (Frazer Bradshaw)

“Body Parts” examines the labor of movie nudity – the good, the bad and the merkins

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Naked Gardens (Patrick Bresnan)

“Nudity is not indecent”: “Naked Gardens” directors on baring all, even themselves, for documentary

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Lost Illusions (Music Box Films)

“Lost Illusions” is a sumptuous period piece on the allure of fame, followers and fake news

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Khadega in Nausheen Dadabhoy's "An Act Of Worship" (Capital K Pictures)

“An Act of Worship” is one Muslim American’s “counternarrative of our last 30 years”

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