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‘Parallel Mothers’ Film Review: Pedro Almodóvar Both Fulfills and Upends Expectations
This tale of maternity gives you the melodrama and art-direction you expect from the Spanish auteur, but with a provocative and unpredictable spin
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‘Red Rocket’ Film Review: Sean Baker Finds a Touch of Donald Trump in His Porn-World Hustler
The film may be another Baker indie drama about sex workers, but it’s also got plenty to say about the last four years
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‘France’ Film Review: Léa Seydoux Is Stuck in Hollow Look at the Hollowness of Fame
Bruno Dumont’s film was greeted with boos at the Cannes Film Festival
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‘Benedetta’ Film Review: Paul Verhoeven Delivers Beauty, Belief and Nun-on-Nun Sex
In this erotic drama, the Dutch provocateur has managed to encompass all the themes and obsessions that have marked his five-decade, three-language career
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‘Drive My Car’ Film Review: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Trip Starts Strong But Then Sputters
Japanese director’s drama is bursting with interesting flourishes and winsome tangents, but also with heavy-handed melodrama
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‘Bergman Island’ Film Review: Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps Star in Light and Airy Ingmar Bergman Riff
Mia Hansen-Løve has created a Russian nesting doll of a movie, commenting on itself while throwing manna to the cinephile masses
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‘Titane’ Review: ‘Raw’ Director Returns With Graphic, Gender-Exploring Body Horror Film
Julia Ducournau’s sophomore effort isn’t for the faint of heart
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‘Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon’ Film Review: Ana Lily Amirpour Whips Up a Heady Bourbon Street Cocktail
Venice 2021: The director’s third film stars Jeon Jong-seo and Kate Hudson and draws from superhero cinema, raver subculture and Southern Gothic fiction
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‘Official Competition’ Film Review: Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz Cut Loose in Breezy Comedy
Venice 2021: The actors’ megawatt charisma is enough to carry the show, at least for a while
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‘Stillwater’ Film Review: Matt Damon Plays a Roughneck in a Languid Thriller
”Spotlight“ director Tom McCarthy’s new film follows a well-trodden path while taking plenty of detours along the way
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‘Nitram’ Film Review: Somber Biographical Drama Tracks an Australian Mass Shooter
Cannes 2021: In Justin Kurzel’s film about the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, Caleb Landry Jones plays a real-life killer with pallid intensity
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‘Casablanca Beats’ Film Review: World Cinema Hip-Hop Musical Is a Blitz of Movement and Music
Cannes 2021: Nabil Ayouch’s film argues that the power of personal expression can turn the world on its head
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‘The Story of My Wife’ Film Review: Old Style Euro-Pudding Epic Wears Out Its Welcome
Cannes 2021: Ildiko Enyedi’s art-house bling is artfully decorated and impeccably tailored, but nothing happens
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‘Deception’ Film Review: French Philip Roth Adaptation Is an Awful Slog to Sit Through
Cannes 2021: Despite the handsome production values, director Arnaud Desplechin’s talky drama is a postcard for archivists and a curio for obsessives
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‘Petrov’s Flu’ Film Review: Provocative Russian Drama Is Exhilarating and Exhausting
Cannes 2021: Kirill Serebrennikov made a formidable piece of filmmaking that also uses its own virtuoso technique as a blunt-force tool against the audience
