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My 5 favorite new to Netflix movies in November 2024

These are the new additions to the Netflix movie library that you should watch first — including "Whiplash", "Superbad" and more.

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'The Whale': Viewers need to examine how teens are represented in the Oscar-winning film

This story contains spoilers about The Whale.

The Conversation

The Whale is being lauded as Brendan Fraser's comeback, but even his Oscar-nominated performance can't evade its flaws

The Mummy star is an Oscars frontrunner for his role as a morbidly obese teacher in The Whale, but not even his affecting performance can quite transcend this flawed film.

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The church of Darren Aronofsky, where 'connection,' 'empathy,' 'love' are the sermon

Director Darren Aronofsky has a way of opening up performers to new emotional depths, explorations of inner pain that often seem to surprise even the actors themselves. So it has been with "The Whale," featuring a celebrated lead performance by Brendan Fraser.

Los Angeles Times

The 'cathartic release' of 'The Whale' explained by the play's actors and directors

The movie version of "The Whale" ends with a breath, a bright light and a beach. The last visual shows the sun shining, the tide rising and falling, and a younger, slimmer version of the title character, Charlie, staring out into the ocean as his daughter plays in the sand…

Los Angeles Times

In ‘The Whale,’ Brendan Fraser brilliantly embodies a man hopeful for others but tired of himself

Veteran actor delivers the best work of his career in Darren Aronofsky’s heartbreakingly moving story.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: Does Brendan Fraser give a great performance in 'The Whale'? It's complicated

When the camera looks at Brendan Fraser in "The Whale," what does it see? It sees a man named Charlie who weighs 600 pounds and is slowly expiring from congestive heart failure in a dimly lit Idaho apartment. It also sees a familiar Hollywood face attached to a most unfamiliar…

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'The Whale' review: Body issues

Charlie is a college writing instructor who never leaves his apartment. He conducts his classes online, disabling his laptop camera so the students cannot see him.

Bangkok Post

Movie review: Brendan Fraser shines in murky drama 'The Whale'

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” adapted from the play by Samuel D. Hunter (who also wrote the screenplay), about an obese man reckoning with his life over the course of a week, is a morally and emotionally messy film. It is so challenging to puzzle out the muddled messaging of…

Tribune News Service

The Whale review – Darren Aronofsky’s latest is a contrived disappointment

It’s hard to feel much sympathy for Brendan Fraser’s morbidly obese English teacher in this much anticipated but underwhelming return to movies

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