Whereas Arnaud Desplechin found his unique artistic vision smothered by the conventions of the police procedural in…
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At first glance, Sorry We Missed You may appear to be merely a re-tread of Loach’s 2016…
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“Is this the end of the world? Is this the death of light?” ponders a character roughly…
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Terrence Malick’s majestic A Hidden Life is orchestrated around dialectical clashes — the physical vs the metaphysical,…
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Robert Eggers delivers on the promise of his acclaimed 2015 slow-burn horror The Witch and then some…
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Just as he accomplished in his outstanding 2014 breakout hit Black Coal, Thin Ice, Diao Yinan uses…
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It’s almost criminal how aggressively Jessica Hausner’s English-language debut, Little Joe, works to drain the fun out…
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Following a trajectory introduced in 2009’s Honour of the Knights and continuing though to the great The…
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Quebecois director Xavier Dolan returns to Cannes It’s been a full decade since Xavier Dolan’s first feature,…
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Illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti makes his feature directorial debut with The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily, a well-mounted,…
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Willem Dafoe Stars in Abel Ferrara’s moving character study “That film made me a Buddhist. I got…
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A black-comic thriller from South Korean director of Memories of Murder and Snowpiercer Parasite combines the broad…
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The latest from French auteur regular Arnaud Desplechin For a while, it seemed that Arnaud Desplechin was…
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Dardenne Brothers Deliver a Coming-of-Age Tale of a Young Terrorist “A true Muslim doesn’t shake a woman’s…
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Cannes Film Festival 2019: Gaspar Noé’s ‘Lux Æterna’ Corrupts a Solid Notion With Shameless Self-Justification
Gaspar Noé’s pint-sized Lux Æterna is an exercise in self-aggrandizement disguised as a feminist deconstruction of the…
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French actor-writer-director Mati Diop returns to Cannes with the first feature competition entry ever directed by a…
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Longtime collaborator Antonio Banderas stars in Pedro Almodóvar’s semi-autobiographical Pain and Glory It’s not difficult to detect…
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Too Old to Die Young brings the genre provocateur Nicholas Winding Refn to Amazon for a 13-hour…
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The Climb is a Brilliant Reinvention of the Buddy Comedy. In the opening moments of Michael Covino’s…
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Cannes Film Festival 2019: ‘Beanpole’ is Beautiful, but Suffocating in its Measured Style
Kantemir Balagov follows Closeness, his accomplished-but-slight debut feature, with the significantly more ambitious Beanpole, an exploration of…
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