10 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week

This week’s ten films range from adaptations and thrillers to animation and offbeat comedies, gathering critics’ takes on everything from romantic tragedy to sensory overload. Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights finds Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff, though the review says Fennell’s embellishments "grow more exaggerated and distracting, and her hold on the story becomes increasingly tenuous." Cold Storage is called "a B-movie throwback" with "few thrills" but "appealing actors and a fleet running time." Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is noted for lagging around the middle, yet "things are guaranteed to get extremely weird." My Father’s Shadow, the Critic’s Pick set in Nigeria, earns praise for "that sharp contrast of beauty with an undercurrent of pain" and carries the line: "The memories that pain you when someone leaves are the same ones that will comfort you later." Scarlet is described as ending up "caught in an awkward push-pull between Shakespeare’s text and the fantastical spaces" of Mamoru Hosoda’s v

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