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  Thanksgiving-Ruining Comedy The Oath Makes America Funny Again

  October 18 at 7 a.m.

  That impulse — to continually stoke our fury with Twitter takes, cable news shouters and breaking news updates — gets lanced throughout The Oath, which writer-director-star Barinholtz has set in a now just as fevered as ours

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  Danish Thriller The Guilty Dazzles Without Ever Leaving a Call Center

  October 18 at 6 a.m.

  Pretty much the whole film consists of phone exchanges between Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren), a police officer who has been temporarily demoted to working the phones, and others out in the field as he struggles to save a woman who is being abducted by her ex-husband

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  Jamie Lee Curtis Rules, but the New Halloween Works Against Her

  October 17 at 7 a.m.

  We meet Laurie in her super-sealed woodsy compound, almost 40 years to the day after the murders that took place in 1978 — this film negates all the previous Halloween sequels

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  Chalamet, Carell Face Cycles of Addiction in Tender Beautiful Boy

  October 17 at 6 a.m.

  For Nic and his family, rehab becomes sobriety becomes relapse, a pitiless cycle of hope and disappointment too many of us will experience at one time or another, either as addict or loved one

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  Clever but Empty, Bad Times Throws Back to the Tarantinoid '90s

  October 12 at 7 a.m.

  Bad Times is a much better time in its mysterious middle, which tingles with darkly comic possibility, than in its final 40 minutes, when Goddard’s cards are on the table

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  France’s The Apparition Makes a Fine Mystery Out of a Sighting of Mary

  October 12 at 6 a.m.

  Young Anna (Galatea Bellugi), intense and charismatic in the manner of another teenaged French seer, reports that Mary has imparted to her a message calling for the building of a church and caring for the world’s poor