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"In the 1930s film “Bride of Frankenstein,” the main character is only in the film for three minutes and doesn’t have a single line. But in director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s film, which takes a new approach to the relationship between the monster and his bride, she gets to take the stage and speak. Jessie Buckley, who was most recently praised by critics for “Hamnet,” plays the lead role.
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".Spain's Oscar entry, directed by Oliver Laxe, is a kind of road movie about Luis (Sergi López), who, in the shadow of war, arrives at an ecstatic desert rave while searching for his missing daughter. He then continues the fateful search across the dangerous sand dunes of North Africa with some oddball revellers.
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".In Pixar's new animated feature, activists who want to stop the exploitation of a forest clearing use new robotic technology to let people hear what the beavers have to say.
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” (Netflix).The formidable Alan Ritchson is known for the police series “Reacher” on Prime Video. In this action-packed science fiction film, he plays the leader of a special forces unit whose unit, on a final training exercise, encounters an alien killing machine.
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” (5/3, Netflix).Rachel Weisz plays a university professor at a career dead end. When her husband John (John Slattery) is also caught up in a #MeToo allegation, she dreams of flirting with her new colleague Vladimir (Leo Woodall). The slightly twisted comedy series is based on a novel by Julia May Jonas. Swedish Josephine Bornebusch has directed two of the eight episodes.
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” (9/3, HBO Max).Steve Carell is back in a new comedy series. This time he plays Greg, a crime writer who becomes a university lecturer to be close to his daughter (Charly Clive), whose life is turned upside down by a divorce. But life among young, socially conscious students is not easy for a 57-year-old man.
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” (11/3, Prime Video).Patricia Cornwell's fictional character Kay Scarpetta has been adapted into a crime series, with Nicole Kidman in the lead role as the medical examiner who shows great empathy for victims. Jamie Lee Curtis also plays a major role in the series, which is not a direct adaptation of a single book but weaves several books into the plot, including the first novel "Post Mortem".
