It’s the decision to transplant the tale to World War II that’s most affecting though. Cast against the rise of fascism, with Gepetto mourning the loss of his son, the film is packed with complex themes of mortality and morality that will haunt audiences long after the credits roll. If that doesn’t sell you, perhaps the fact that it won Best Animated Feature at the 2023 Academy Awards will. Shapeshifter Nimona can become anything she wants, a gift that causes people to fear and shun her. If society is going to treat her like a villain, she’s going to be one, so she decides to become the sidekick of the hated black knight, Ballister Blackheart.
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Jennifer Lopez, 55, hosts a show with performances by Blake Shelton, Benson Boone, Lainey Wilson, Gwen Stefani, 55 and Gloria Estefan, 67, each doing a medley of their career hits, and Janet Jackson, 58, who will receive the ICON award. While we already provide extensive monthly new-release recommendations and weekly streaming recommendations, as distributors’ roll-outs can vary, this is a one-stop list to share the essential films that may be on a screen near you. The new Spike Lee joint, an inventive Brazilian political thriller and a Scandinavian family drama spiked with humor were among other standouts from the world’s pre-eminent film festival. Closing us out is Erica Tremblay’s fantastic Fancy Dance, the newest film to star Lily Gladstone after she blew us all away with her incredible work in Killers of the Flower Moon from last year. Her latest is a modern classic in the making, seeing her play the hustler with a heart of gold Jax as she tries to find her missing sister and look after her young niece. In my rave review back from when it played at Sundance in 2023, I called it “one of the best of the year” and that absolutely remains true for 2024.
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Unfortunately for the aspiring menace, Blackheart isn’t quite the monster he’s made out to be, and he instead tries to rein in Nimona’s more murderous tendencies as he seeks to clear his name of a crime he didn’t commit—and face down his old friend Ambrosius Goldenloin in the process. D. Stevenson’s groundbreaking graphic novel, Nimona is more than just another fanciful fantasy—it’s a tale of outsiders and exiles, people trying to do right even when their community rejects them, and the joy of finding their own little band along the way. After an almost decade-long journey to the screen, this dazzlingly animated movie has become an instant classic.
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Our critics, Robbie Collin and Tim Robey, watch every film release between them, from the mainstream to the art house, and have been doing so for a good few decades. Here are their favourites currently screening, and a few that made them put their heads in their hands. A brash but brilliant detective (Matthew Goode) leads a cold case unit in this Edinburgh-based drama by the writer and director of “The Queen’s Gambit”. Led by Susie Wolff, former professional driver and wife of Mercedes F1 team principal Toto Wolff, the F1 Academy is a female-only racing championship aimed at finding future F1 drivers. As one of the few women ever to participate in a F1 race weekend, Wolff is perfectly suited for the role. If you need more, check out our guide to everything new to Netflix in May or our review of Netflix’s new dark comedy starring Julianne Moore and Meghann Fahy.
The movie centers on Iman (Missagh Zareh), a judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, who struggles with increasing paranoia as the Iranian city falls into a state of political unrest following the death of a young woman. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. FBI season 8 will be back in the fall of 2025, but before then, catch up on the three season finales, which are now streaming. In the ‘Head-On’ director’s latest, a 12-year-old boy living on an island off the coast of Germany embarks on a series of adventures to get his mother bread, butter and honey.
This four-part docuseries explores the life of the late NASCAR great Dale Earnhardt Sr., who single-handedly redefined stock car racing during his two-decade dominance of the track. But the road to legend status — and launching a family dynasty in the sport through his two-time Daytona 500-winning son Dale Earnhardt Jr., 50 — faced several speed bumps, as documented in archival footage and revealing interviews. Charismatic high-society philanthropist Michaela Kell (Julianne Moore, 64) holds the guests at her luxurious island estate under some kind of strange psychic spell, especially her employee Simone (Milly Alcock). So one Labor Day weekend, Simone’s alarmed sister Devon (The White Lotus’s Meghann Fahy) tries to intervene — but she has no idea what she’s getting herself into. Kevin Bacon, 66, plays Michaela’s billionaire stoner husband, and brilliant Bill Camp, 63, plays Devon and Simone’s dad, afflicted with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Industry pros vote on the Grammy Awards, but the rival American Music Awards give fans (and music buyers) the vote.
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Set in Mexico in 1999, Y Tu Mamá También (“And your mother, too”) follows rich kid Tenoch (Diego Luna) and his working-class friend Julio (Gael García Bernal) on a road trip with Luisa (Maribel Verdú), the wife of Tenoch’s cousin. It’s a journey that sees the young men—still boys, really—competing for attention from the beautiful older woman, trapping themselves in lies and trying to get by on unearned confidence, all while claiming to be heading to a picture-perfect manga quiz beach that they made up. As for why the much more mature and experienced Luisa would go along with them in the first place? While the film courted controversy for its frank depiction of sex and drugs (it’s not one for family film night), it remains a masterpiece; a raucous and all-too-real examination of young friendships and fragile masculinity. Daniel Craig reprises his role as detective Benoit Blanc in this brilliant follow-up to 2019’s phenomenal whodunnit, Knives Out. Writer-director Rian Johnson crafts a fiendishly sharp new case for “the Last of the Gentlemen Sleuths,” taking Blanc to a Greek island getaway for a reclusive tech billionaire and his collection of friends and hangers-on, where a planned murder mystery weekend takes a deadly turn.
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