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Anne Hathaway Caps Her Prolific Year With Verity, a Darkly Funny Erotic Thriller (opens the original)
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Anne Hathaway has had quite a year. So far she has played a fashion journalist, a pop star, a queen in ancient Greece, and a suburban mom battling dinosaurs. Her prolific output in 2026 continues with what might be her juiciest role this year, a bestselling crime novelist hiding dark secrets. In Verity, an adaptation of the popular book by Colleen Hoover, Hathaway finds herself in an erotic thriller, a genre that today is often maligned but still has seductive power. Michael Showalter, who got h
Dads, Dogs, and Coups—Oh My! Latin American Film Fest Returns to AFI Silver (opens the original)
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Unintentionally or not, the programmers at AFI Silver have found a lot of similarities when they decided on the slate for this year’s Latin American Film Festival. From Sept. 16 through Oct. 7, these films explore the limits of our most valued relationships—family, pets, and countries—and what happens when they start to break. In our brief guide to the festival, we review some complementary highlights so you can find a sensibility that best matches your own. If you’re hankering for more politica
South Korean Creature Feature Hope Has a Thrilling First Act. Then the Rest Happens. (opens the original)
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It has been more than 50 years since Jaws made Steven Spielberg a household name, but you can still see its influence today. In the first hour of the Korean creature feature Hope, the similarities must be deliberate. Director and writer Na Hong-jin, who was born one year before Jaws hit theaters in 1975, also follows a police chief in a small seaside town as he deals with mysterious deaths from a strange creature. For a while, Na shows only the wake of the creature’s destruction, not the creatur
The Bloody Good Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Has an Erotic Edge (opens the original)
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Many directors spend their careers exploring new ways to consider their favorite obsessions. Take Martin Scorsese acknowledging his guilt over his role in glorifying violence, Steven Spielberg and his hope that aliens could unite humanity, or the body horror of Julia Ducournau. Once you realize that certain thoughts gnaw at a director throughout their body of work, their films have a greater potential to impart a larger impact. Sometimes, in doing this, a filmmaker creates something universal, b
The Samurai and the Prisoner Elegantly Remixes Disparate Influences (opens the original)
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In The Samurai and the Prisoner, the new historical mystery set in feudal Japan, the biggest puzzles are hidden in plain sight. It follows an episodic structure, with the stoic hero solving crimes that defy logic, all while he keeps his personal agenda—one that frustrates his advisers and underlings—to himself. In adapting Honobu Yonezawa’s 2021 novel, writer-director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who is best known for influential horror films like Cure (1997) and Pulse (2001), creates a dense story with la
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