Waves crash against the jagged coastline of an Irish fishing village, their rough cadence just one reminder of nature’s abiding power in a place composed of harsh, unyielding elements. The sky is a clouded gray, and the wind cuts sharp and deep enough to hit bone. Such a forbidding clime keeps the community at the center of A24’s “God’s Creatures,” small and close-knit but also superstitious and patriarchal.

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Sandra Bullock has starred in over fifty films in her career, but, if one can believe it, there hasn’t been a movie with her released since the 2018 Netflix thriller “Birdbox.” But, fear not, Bullock fans. The actress has three films set for releases over the next year, like the assassin thriller “Bullet Train” alongside Brad Pitt and the romantic adventure film “The Lost City Of D” with Channing Tatum.  

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Sam Taylor-Johnson has assembled an impressive cast for her next feature film, “Rothko,” which is set in the art world. The ensemble cast includes Russell Crowe, as well as Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Stuhlbarg, Aisling Franciosi, and Jared Harris.

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The film is written by Lara Wood, and is adapted from the book “The Legacy of Mark Rothko” by Lee Seldes.

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Even at what seems like the end of the world, it is impossible to escape the toxicity of the patriarchy. In FX’s “Black Narcissus,” an adaptation of Rumer Godden’s same-named bestselling 1939 novel (adapted as a film in 1947, starring Deborah Kerr in her breakout role), men of both Eastern and Western cultures remain certain of their superiority. The rigidity of Christian ideology, and the narrow role for women within it, was shaped by men; the strict caste system of various ethnic groups in the Himalayas, in particular those with royalty, was shaped by men.

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Many who’ve seen Jennifer Kent’s new revenge epic “The Nightingale” have sensed a traumatic link to her prior outing, “The Babadook” (2014). In both films, a stranded woman is confronted with malice beyond her imagination. Whether inflicted by a black-cloaked demon or the British Empire, the ensuing scars come to redefine her humanity.

But trauma is just the subject matter of “The Nightingale” and “The Babadook.” If there’s a commonality in authorship between the two films it’s that Kent is implicitly and explicitly challenging audiences with her portrayals of pain.

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When Jennifer Kent delivered the breakout 2014 horror film “The Babadook,” she gave us a bone-chilling exercise in fear. And not only did she take audiences aback with her family horror, but Kent also announced herself as an exciting new voice in the horror genre and one that all eyes are still on.

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Thankfully, she didn’t have to wait too long to make her follow-up feature.

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