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  • ‘The Odyssey’

    There's nary a dull moment in Christopher Nolan's vast, thrilling, slightly aloof epic, but despite a fine, bone-weary turn from Matt Damon as Odysseus, it's more sensually than emotionally felt.

  • ‘Hadestown: The Musical’

    Showcasing a 2025 performance in London's West End, it captures the crowd-pleasing vibrance of the mythological New Orleans-meets-rock opera stage show, which is as much a happening as a musical.

  • ‘Motor City’

    Potsy Ponciroli's audacious crime thriller — a Scorsese opera without dialogue — is a tale of love and vengeance that creates its own needle-drop mystique.

  • ‘Her Private Hell’

    Nicolas Winding Refn gets lost in his private filmmaking hell in a movie (his first in a decade) that's like David Lynch on bad acid crossed with the world's most avant-garde perfume commercial.

  • ‘Amadeus’

    Jefferson Mays shines as a funny and frothing Salieri in a gorgeously mounted, essential revival.

  • ‘Bug’

    Carrie Coon's gutting performance elevates this horror thriller.

  • ‘Paranormal Activity’

    Only nominally related to the Blumhouse horror franchise, the haunted-house show ditches hidden cameras for live scares.

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