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Jude Law and John Malkovich star in award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino's stylish and wildly unconventional follow-up to 2017's The Young Pope. The New Pope begins with Lenny Belardo (Law), aka Pope Pius XIII, in a coma after a heart attack as the Holy See searches for his replacement. British intellectual Sir John Brannox (Malkovich) is elected to the papal throne, assuming the name John Paul III. He soon finds that his predecesso