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Trump’s tale given Godfather treatment in The Apprentice

The Apprentice is sure to fire up strong opinions as the United States enters its election season.

The film sees a young and innocent Donald J. Trump taken under the wing of lawyer Roy Cohn who molds the 45th President of the U.S. into the confident and power-hungry man we know today.

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Saturday Night honors SNL with a comedic thriller

Saturday Night sees the origins of SNL take center stage in a refreshing and thrilling biopic.

Director Jason Reitman (Up in the Air, Juno) assembles a cast of young no-names and thrust them into stardom.

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The Substance changes the image of body horror

The Substance is a visually astonishing new wave of body horror.

The story follows an aging actress (Demi Moore) who is lured by a new treatment that allows her to co-exist with a "better version" of herself (Margaret Qualley).

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice brings back peak Tim Burton

You can feel Tim Burton's passion in every frame of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in a resurgence for the once-elite director.

After a decade of misses, flops, and mismatches - mostly involving Disney - Burton returns to one of his iconic properties and does it solid fan service.

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Affleck boosts bland space drama Slingshot

Casey Affleck flexes his lifting power again as he shoulders the load of Slingshot’s flat outer-space theatrics.

The Oscar winner stars as an astronaut on a crucial mission to tap the resources of Saturn moon Titan for a climate-ravaged Earth.

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Strange Darling is a can’t-miss indie queen

A casual date with a serial killer leads to one hell of a one-night stand in JT Mollner's Strange Darling.

Told in six non-linear chapters, the film has some extremely bold surprises up its sleeve.

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Blink Twice triples the bite of the resort thriller

With a hodge-podge of ideas bouncing around as influences -

White Lotus, The Glass Onion, and Get Out chief among them - Zoë Kravitz's directorial debut Blink Twice concocts a gruesome dish of girl power vengeance.

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Alien: Romulus plays it safe, and that’s just fine

There is nothing in Alien: Romulus that feels even remotely original - everything has been seen and done before in the franchise’s 45 years.

But this collection of greatest scares still screams after all these years.

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Hidden sci-fi gift fills mutant-sized X-Men void

With no definitive date for Disney’s plans for the official return of the X-Men and popularity at peak levels following the success of Deadpool and Wolverine, Hulu has a temporary solution now streaming.

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Kneecap rejuvenates the bland biopic like a drug

Unlike Bohemian Rhapsody, Ray, Rocketman, and every other cookie-cutter offering, Kneecap is a jolt of adrenaline.

Coming on the heels of this year's rock bottom debacle Back to Black, it is a sign that the genre need not be so predictable and square.

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