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‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Review: Stirring Doc Intertwines the DNA of Nan Goldin’s Art and Activism
Laura Poitras’ Golden Lion–winner tracks the artist’s life and her commitment to taking on the Sackler family’s presence in the museum world
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‘Bones and All’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Makes Sparks Fly and People Die in Cannibal Road Movie
Luca Guadagnino’s film feels like a mad science experiment to see if “Raw” can coexist with “Badlands” in the body of a gooey Young Adult love tale
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‘EO’ Review: Cannes’ Oldest Director Gives Us a Silly, Entertaining Trifle About a Donkey
Jerzy Skolimowski seems mostly interested in making his camera swoop and soar and perform stupid pet tricks
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‘Stars at Noon’ Review: Claire Denis Keeps Things Chilly in a Balmy Spy Thriller
Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn are gorgeous and privileged as they make their way through intrigue (and the COVID-19 pandemic)
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‘TAR’ Review: Cate Blanchett Is at Her Peak in Razor-Sharp Character Study
Todd Field’s drama engages playfully and provocatively with hot-button topics as Blanchett delivers yet another fiery performance
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‘Onoda’ Review: French Director Makes Japanese Biopic With American Influences
Arthur Harari’s near three-hour drama borrows from John Ford to tell the story of a WWII Japanese soldier who didn’t give up for 29 years
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‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Gross-Out Comedy Is Overlong and Understuffed
”The Square“ filmmaker Ruben Östlund returns with a social commentary that relishes in toilet humor
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‘Dead for a Dollar’ Review: Walter Hill Captures the Best and Worst of Low-Budget Westerns
The film’s handful of grace notes are overpowered by lots of cut-short scenes that seem to signal the director’s impatience
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‘Casablanca Beats’ Film Review: World Cinema Hip-Hop Musical Is a Blitz of Movement and Music
Nabil Ayouch’s film argues that the power of personal expression can turn the world on its head
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‘No Bears’ Film Review: Jafar Panahi Continues to Create Powerful Art, Even When Officially Banned
Venice Film Festival 2022: The Iranian auteur crafts what might be his most powerful work yet in exile, one that addresses his own shortcomings as well as his country’s sanctions against him
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‘Blonde’ Film Review: Ana de Armas Recreates Marilyn and Norma Jeane, in Black and White and Technicolor
Venice Film Festival 2022: Director Andrew Dominik pivots between the nightmare of fame and hooray-for-Hollywood grandeur with surrealist flair
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‘The Whale’ Film Review: Darren Aronofsky Handles a Heavyset Character With a Heavy Hand
Venice Film Festival 2022: This claustrophobic adaptation of a play simultaneously feels like a departure and entirely of a piece with his filmography
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‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Film Review: George Miller’s Fantasia Explodes All Your Blockbuster Expectations
Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba star in a visually imaginative exploration of storytelling
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Karlovy Vary Film Festival Wraps With Edgy Films, Digital Dreams to ‘Reflect the Full Cinematic Culture of the Year’
The ”ambiguous“ film festival’s artistic director Karel Och reflects on one of its best years of programming yet
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Karlovy Vary Film Festival Explores Israeli-American Connections in ‘America’ and ‘June Zero’
Karlovy Vary 2022: Ofir Raul Graizer crafts an intimate love triangle, while Jake Paltrow explores Israeli history through characters on the periphery
