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4 New Movies You Should Rent This Month
Including the most successful original blockbuster in 15 years.
A commentary on cultural appropriation in the clothes of a genre flick, Coogler’s masterful movie is the most financially successful original blockbuster in 15 years, a reminder of how many people will open their wallets when there’s something this worth seeing. In January 2025, the Weeknd released an album called Hurry Up Tomorrow, which was accompanied four months later by this companion piece in which the man also known as Abel Tesfaye plays a loosely fictionalized version of himself, alongside Barry Keoghan and Jenna Ortega. Opening with a breathtaking sequence that terrifyingly details a restaurant crashing multiple stories to the ground, it’s a film that not only nearly ties together the entire franchise but gives the legendary Tony Todd a beautiful posthumous send-off.
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