Let there be Mavericks, Bollywood magic, and a Cate Blanchett maestro on the loose.
Don’t call it a comeback, unless maybe you’reTom Cruise.
(And really, did he ever go away?)
Credit: Focus Features / Everett / A24 / /Searchlight Pictures
The year’s best films
10.
High melodrama, surreal Bollywood spectacle, epic bromance: It’s all here, and it is glorious.
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N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and furry friend in ‘RRR’.Everett Collection
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It also, we learn inFire’s opening moments, led them directly to their deaths.
‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’.Neon
In a word, astonishing.
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4.
Top Gun: Maverick
Is he the last movie star?
A24
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The Banshees of Inisherin
What is a man without his best friend?
‘All Quiet on the Western Front’.Netflix
InBanshees, though, he finds a new emotional resonance, and even an improbable kind of grace.
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The Bubble
So many stars!
A24
The elevator pitch is Gen-ZKill Bill; the execution just feels likeMortal Kombatwith a pop-punk soundtrack.
‘Fire of Love’.Sundance Institute
Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’.Paramount Pictures
Charlbi Dean and Harris Dickinson in ‘Triangle of Sadness’.Neon
Colin Farrell with Jenny the Donkey in ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’.Jonathan Hession/Searchlight Pictures
‘TÁR’.Focus Features / Courtesy Everett Collection
Netflix
Brendan Fraser as Charlie in ‘The Whale’.A24
‘Sharp Stick’.Sundance Institute
The cast of ‘The Bubble’.Laura Radford/Netflix
Joey King in ‘The Princess’.Simon Varsano/20th Century Studios
