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The Italian director Luca Guadagnino isn’t known for restraint, and his newest film “Challengers” is a big, stylish melodrama about obsession and betrayal in the world of tennis. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a lot of fun, and made with more energy and zeal than most mainstream movies.

The Oscar-nominated actor Dev Patel steps behind the camera for the first time with the bloody, pulpy thriller “Monkey Man.” It follows a standard revenge movie plot, but Nathan Weinbender says it stands apart with its mayhem and its sense of righteous anger.

Right on the heels of the horror hit “X” comes its prequel “Pearl,” which is currently available on VOD. Nathan Weinbender says the film is even better than its predecessor.

The horror franchise that began with "X" and "Pearl" is now a trilogy. Director Ti West and star Mia Goth return to that sleazy world with "MaXXXine" but Nathan Weinbender says it’s too unfocused and overburdened with film references to stack up to its predecessors.

With its buzzy marketing, “Longlegs” has been an unexpected horror hit. Nathan Weinbender says that it’s a stylishly made and ultimately promising nightmare that loses steam as it goes along and has to explain its plot.

The latest from Marvel, “Deadpool & Wolverine,” finally teams up the irreverent Merc with a Mouth and the glowering X-Men leader. Nathan Weinbender says the movie is designed to please fans, but barring a few good jokes, it doesn’t offer anything new to the Deadpool formula.

A laid-off worker goes to desperate and violent extremes for a new job in Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice.” Nathan Weinbender says it’s one of the Korean master’s very best movies.

The fourth film in the long-running horror series, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” is a crazed, bloody apocalyptic nightmare directed by Nia DaCosta. Nathan Weinbender says it’s one of the standouts of the franchise.

“Send Help” is a bloody survivalist thriller from “Evil Dead” and “Spider-Man” director Sam Raimi. Nathan Weinbender says Rachel McAdams’s central performance is more ferocious than the movie itself.

“Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” is as strange and unwieldy as its title. Nathan Weinbender says the new time-travel satire from Gore Verbinski is equal parts inventive and undisciplined.