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Maria

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  • Title: Maria
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Maria explores the final days of renown opera singer Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie) looking back on her life in a self-medicated haze that blurs fantasy and reality in her quest to rediscover the voice she lost years ago. The standouts here are Jolie’s performance, for which she trained 7 months to learn to sing opera (a mix of both Jolie and Callas’ voices are used throughout the film), and the film’s amazing look courtesy of cinematographer Edward Lachman, set decoration by Sandro Piccarozzi, and costumes by Massimo Cantini Parrini.

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Kraven the Hunter

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  • Title: Kraven the Hunter
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Following the lackluster Morbius and the disastrous Madame Web, and limping into theaters as the news breaks that Sony is abandoning it’s wider Spider-Man Universe comes Kraven the Hunter starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as super-villain Sergei Kravinoff reimagined here as something closer to the Punisher targeting, hunting down, and murdering criminals like his father (Russell Crowe). If there’s praise to be levelled at Kraven, it’s that the film is better than either Morbius or Web. However, that’s a dubious distinction.

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The Order

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  • Title: The Order (2024)
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Based on true events, The Order is a solid drama about burnt out FBI Agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) sent to the Pacific Northwest to take it easy in an assignment where nothing ever happens… until he connects a series of robberies with a radicalized offshoot of a white power organization with a charismatic leader (Nicholas Hoult) and big plans for changing the world.

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Moana 2

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  • Title: Moana 2
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Offering more of what was delivered in Moana, albeit without a memorable musical number, Moana 2 delivers more adventure for the titular character in continuing her journey into the wider world. After bringing her people out of isolation and back to the ocean, Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) continues to search for other people leading to her next quest following the footsteps of her ancestors’ greatest wayfinder Tautai Vasa in searching for the lost island capable of reuniting the people of the ocean.

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The Outrun

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  • Title: The Outrun
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Saoirse Ronan stars in director Nora Fingscheidt‘s stylish memoir based on Amy Liptrot’s true story. Jumping around her timeline to showcase various moments of Rona’s (Ronan) life from childhood to present provides context to how she ended up one one of the most remote Orkney Islands fighting her addiction with alcoholism and building a new life. While following her inner journey, the film also examines life on the island and nature beyond as her relative isolation brings her a peace she hasn’t seen in years.

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