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The Whimsical, Intellectual Chemistry of Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton

<em>Three Thousand Years of Longing </em>gives the genie-in-a-bottle formula a fresh update and a deeply romantic spin.
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George Miller’s 2015 insta-classic is one of the most propulsive movies ever made. It tracks a caravan of souped-up vehicles blasting across the desert in a glorious postapocalyptic battle. His follow-up is, on the surface, quite the opposite. is primarily focused on a long conversation between two characters wearing bathrobes in a fancy Turkish hotel room. But that first impression sells the film short. Miller’s latest work, about an introverted professor (played by Tilda Swinton) and the

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