Curt on the movies

‘Wicked: For Good’ picks up with Elphaba pitted against her best friend on a quest to prove to the people of Oz that their Wonderful Wizard is actually a fraud.

After the death of their son, Hamnet, Agnes and William Shakespeare process their grief in dramatically different ways in Chloé Zhao’s emotional powerhouse, ‘Hamnet’.

In the latest adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, the genius scientist Victor Frankenstein plays God and gives life to a monstrous creature, with horrifying consequences.

A struggling actor in Japan takes on work with a company that rents out performers for real people’s personal lives in ‘Rental Family’.

Glen Powell stars in ‘The Running Man’, set in a dystopian future, about one man’s entry into a life or death gameshow in the hopes of winning enough money to provide for his family.

After the death of their mother, two sisters have their lives upended further when their estranged father returns home, in Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’.