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The Rock goes for broke in Benny Safdie's sports biopic about MMA star Mark Kerr — but it's more of a mellow mood piece than a battle royale

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The Rock goes for broke in Benny Safdie's sports biopic about MMA star Mark Kerr — but it's more of a mellow mood piece than a battle royale

That's not a compliment, and you wish someone would swoop in and rescue Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie from this mess

The Kanye West doc 'In Whose Name?' paints a staggeringly detailed portrait of Ye's most controversial years — and a larger truth about our culture

Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer get the band back together for one short, loud goodbye

With 'The Grand Finale,' the TV-to-movie series that sold British aristocracy as quaint nostalgia bows out with one last, extremely long curtain call

The filmmaker, aided by an extraordinary turn from Jacob Elordi, finally brings his vision of a misunderstood creature to the screen

Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal and Chloé Zhao turn the Bard's defining tragedy into a heartbreaking portrait of love, loss, and the healing power of art

How Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig keep making these clever, old-school whodunnits so compelling and entertaining is truly a mystery

Darren Aronofsky's wild ride through 1990s NYC has gunfights, car chases, Hasidic gangsters and an adorable cat. But its star is the main attraction.

Everyone's favorite normcore Rambo is back, now with twice the middle-aged-dad anxiety, a lot of kinetic mayhem, and Sharon Stone going full camp