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Dark Harvest 2023
Full IGN review. And featuring Luke Kirby as Tim Robinson as the one (1) police officer enforcing the rules of this ludicrous sub-The Lottery Town with a Secret.
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Priscilla 2023
Full Digital Trends review. Coppola very much in her wheelhouse here. Maybe too much so? There's no productive friction between artist and material—which is to say, whatever movie you conjured in your head when you heard Sofia Coppola was doing a Priscilla Presley biopic, it probably resembles the pretty good one she did make.
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Barbie 2023
Spirited, inherently hopeless effort to reconcile all the competing imperatives of making a live-action Barbie movie in the year 2023. It's knowing prefab camp that both revels in and loudly interrogates the retro appeal of Barbie. It's representationally inclusive while gently acknowledging that Mattel's forays into diversifying Barbie were, of course, financially motivated. It bites the hand that feeds (plays?) by pointing out the gender disparity within a company with a predominately female consumer base, while also covering for that…