"A Big Bold Beautiful Journey: In the yawning aftermath of After Yang, writer/director Kogonada tries again with Colin Farrell, this time welcoming Margot Robbie to another potential wad of corn, giving it a horrific title, and going for the tearjerking jugular. I'm sorry, but it grows harder every year to cheer for the man who made Columbus. One Battle After Another: Paul Thomas Anderson interprets Thomas Pynchon for the second time, casting Leonardo DiCaprio as fu-manchu'd Bob Ferguson."
"The Smashing Machine: The Rock turns his face into a prosthetic meat-slab for Benny Safdie, playing MMA champion Mark Kerr. His artificially heavy brow cannot hide how desperately his sights are set on an Oscar nomination. Tron: Ares: Jared Leto lands the easiest role of his lifetime-a synthetic humanoid who must learn how to be a real man-in the third film in a sci-fi franchise that seems "loosely planned" at this point."
September and October feature a diverse lineup of anticipated films from established directors and major stars. Kogonada returns with an emotional Farrell-Robbie vehicle, while Paul Thomas Anderson adapts Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland with Leonardo DiCaprio, aiming for a more action-oriented scale. October includes Benny Safdie’s Mark Kerr biopic starring Dwayne Johnson, a Tron sequel with Jared Leto, Kelly Reichardt’s 1970s-set art thief drama with Josh O'Connor, Kathryn Bigelow’s Netflix missile thriller with Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson, and a new Yorgos Lanthimos film continuing his unsettling, surreal approach.
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