There’s a reason Sony released the first eight minutes of “Kraven the Hunter” before its theatrical bow. It’s the best part of the supervillain origin tale. Faint praise alert! Director J.C. Chandor’s film isn’t as snicker-worthy as Sony’s other 2024 dud, “Madame Web.” But it’s close. A pumped-up Aaron Taylor-Johnson looks like the Marvel Comics …

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Werner Herzog’s “Nosferatu the Vampyre” (1979) is among the most faithful film adaptations of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.”  It’s also one of the strangest. Herzog, Germany’s extraordinary chronicler of natural beauty, human obsession and unorthodox living, made a film that, while dutiful in the way it recreates the well-told vampire tale, is in line with his …

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