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PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN ★★★1/2

Revenge thriller, R, 113 minutes, 2021

In a smart, provocative, pitch-black dark comedy and revenge movie, the antiheroine Cassie exacts vigilante justice on the predatory creeps who try to take advantage of her. Carey Mulligan’s performance as Cassie is astonishingly powerful and deeply layered.

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SHADOW IN THE CLOUD ★★★

Adventure horror, R, 83 minutes, 2020

Tagging along with the boorish, all-male crew on a B-17 mission in World War II, a flight officer (Chloe Grace Moretz) has to shoot down Japanese planes and fight off giant flying gremlins. Thanks in large part to Moretz’s ferociously effective work, we’re all too happy to take this zany ride.

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THE MIDNIGHT SKY ★★★★

Sci-fi, PG-13, 118 minutes, 2020

As a space station heads back to Earth in 2049, a catastrophe wipes out most of humanity, and a survivor in the Arctic (George Clooney, who also directs) attempts to warn its crew not to come home. With breathtaking and sometimes haunting visuals, a bittersweet story and a beautiful and heart-stopping finale, this is one of the very best films of 2020.

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HILLBILLY ELEGY ★★★★ Drama, R, 115 minutes, 2020

Based on J.D. Vance’s memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy” is a beautifully constructed, unforgiving family epic about three generations of the Vance family, with deep roots in the Appalachian hill country of Kentucky. In a tour de force performance, Amy Adams plays Vance’s mother, battling addiction and psychological troubles, and masterful Glenn Close is almost unrecognizable as his tough grandma.

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