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May 2, 2025 
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Hey, movie fans!
If you’re ready for more Marvel (and Marvel sure hopes you are), the first of two summer-season movies from that studio has landed. In “Thunderbolts*,” a rough and tumble collection of superhero-esque figures comes together when the world gets dark. In her review, Manohla Dargis calls it “fitfully amusing, sometimes touching and resolutely formulaic.” We’ll take it!
Our critic has much more solemn words for another release this week: “Rust,” the Alec Baldwin-starring western whose cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, was fatally shot on the set. Dargis wrote, “In truth, this is no longer an ordinary movie; it is, rather, a deeply depressing coda to an appalling and entirely preventable tragedy.”
For something completely different, there’s “The Surfer,” which pits Nicolas Cage against a group of angry wave enthusiasts. And surprise, things get weird. The critic Alissa Wilkinson uses the occasion of this release to talk about some of Cage’s best screen performances.
And we have plenty of movie recommendations for at-home viewing this week. A few come from Paul Feig, the director of the streaming comedy-thriller “Another Simple Favor.” A few are for lovers of breakneck action movies like “Havoc.” A few are international. And a few are for the kids.
Enjoy the movies.
