7 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Critic’s Pick
A hot-button movie people are arguing over.
Kirsten Dunst plays a war photographer in Alex Garland’s “Civil War.” Credit…A24, via Associated Press
‘Civil War’
Alex Garland’s “Civil War” is set in a near-future when the United States is at war with itself and something called the Western Front, made up of Texas and California, is fighting the federal government.
From our review:
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Critic’s Pick
The rare reboot that gets it right.
‘Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead’
After the babysitter hired to watch them for the summer keels over, a 17-year-old slacker named Tanya (Simone Joy Jones) is forced to support her even lazier younger siblings.
From our review:
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Critic’s Pick
A deceptive horror film where the good guys aren’t so good.
‘In Flames’
In Pakistan, 20-something Mariam, her widowed mother, Fariha, and her younger brother are struggling when Uncle Nasir suddenly becomes very interested in the relatives he had been neglecting.
