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Top 10 Hollywood Movies
Leave the World Behind
This socially conscious thriller is based on Rumaan Alam’s acclaimed 2020 suspense novel, a fiction finalist for the National Book Award, and is written and directed by Sam Esmail, creator of the socially conscious hit TV series “Mr. Robot.” The story revolves around a White couple (Hawke and Roberts) who have just moved into a posh beachside Airbnb rental when their idyllic vacation is disrupted by the home’s Black owners (Ali and Myha’la), who are seeking refuge from a widespread power outage and other crises of unknown origin. Racial and class tensions simmer in a film whose cinematic DNA — part horror, part dark social satire — suggests a creepy cousin to Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning 2017 film “Get Out.”
Napoleon
In Ridley Scott’s action epic — the trailer boasts cannon fire, charging white steeds, swords, smoke, and open revolution in the streets — Phoenix plays the titular French emperor, with Kirby as his wife, Josephine.
Saltburn
Emerald Fennell, the director and (Oscar-winning) screenwriter of “Promising Young Woman,” returns with this “Brideshead Revisited”-style story of obsession. Keoghan plays an Oxford student who becomes engrossed in the world of an aristocratic classmate (Elordi), who invites him to spend the summer at his family’s titular estate.
Wish
This animated musical comedy follows a rebellious teenage girl (voiced by DeBose) from a magical kingdom who attempts to return un-granted wishes to the populace in order to undermine her ruler (Pine) — a despotic sorcerer with the ability to grant or deny wishes. All of this is made possible by a whirling, anthropomorphic wishing star. The film is co-directed by “Frozen’s” Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn, who makes her directorial debut here after previously working on films such as “Raya and the Last Dragon.” Read our full “Wish” review here.
Maestro
Carey Mulligan, Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke, Sarah Silverman, Josh Hamilton, Scott Ellis, Gideon Glick, Sam Nivola, Alexa Swinton, and Miriam Shor star.
The film is a love story about the marriage of the conductor/composer, a gay man, and Mulligan’s Felicia Montealegre Bernstein, co-written and directed by Cooper, who also plays the title role, Leonard Bernstein.
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
Fans can expect the film, which follows “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” to go far beyond Swift’s more straightforward concert documentary, encompassing not only the Renaissance concert tour, but also the making of the record of the same name and its accompanying visual album, a conceptual project along the lines of “Black Is King” (available on Disney Plus).
Poor Things
The Guardian described this reunion of Yorgos Lanthimos and Stone, star of the absurdist filmmaker’s “The Favourite,” as a mix of “steampunk-retrofuturist Victorian freakout and macabre black-comic horror.” The plot only begins to explain why: Stone (who also produced the film) plays a woman who is resuscitated after a failed suicide attempt by a mad scientist (Dafoe).
Wonka
In the origin story of a character described as innovative, flamboyant, stubborn, benevolent, arrogant, authoritarian, and suffering from narcissistic personality disorder, Chalamet plays Roald Dahl’s eccentric candy maker.
The Zone of Interest
Based on Martin Amis’ 2014 novel, this Cannes Grand Prize winner — directed by British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer (“Under the Skin”) — revolves around the domestic lives of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss (Friedel) and his wife (Hüller) as they try to maintain a sense of normalcy in a house and garden literally just over the wall from the camp’s incinerators.
All of Us Strangers
A Londoner in his 40s (Scott) is haunted by a couple (Foy and Bell) he discovers living in his childhood home. (They are the spitting image of his dead parents.) Meanwhile, he becomes involved in a relationship with a mysterious young neighbor (Mescal), in this supernatural romance based on the novel “Strangers” by Japanese writer Taichi Yamada.