Ben Croll
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Cannes 2025 Critic’s Take: Who Will Ride a Wave to Mainstream Success?
TheWrap magazine: New films from Spike Lee, Joachim Trier and Julia Ducournau could follow recent Cannes crossover hits like “Anora” and “Anatomy of a Fall”
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‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ Review: Jacob Elordi Gives a Soulful, Years-Spanning Performance
Berlinale: Justin Kurzel adapts Richard Flanagan’s prizewinning novel in this five-part, genre-mashing limited series
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‘Blue Moon’ Review: Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater Luxuriate in Old Showbiz Drama
Berlinale: The purposefully stagey film chronicles the life of American lyricist Lorenz Hart
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‘Dreams’ Review: Jessica Chastain Partners Again With Michel Franco to Diminishing Results
Berlinale: The Oscar winner and co-star Isaac Hernández show little vanity (and much of everything else) in a pair of bold performances
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‘Mickey 17’ Review: Robert Pattinson Is Comedy Gold in Bong Joon-ho’s Madcap Sci-Fi Satire
Berlinale: The “Parasite” filmmaker is back with a gnarly feast that verges on gluttony
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‘Horizon 2’ Review: Kevin Costner’s Slow and Flat Sequel Unlikely to Win New Fans
Venice Film Festival: The second part of the filmmaker’s planned four-part American Saga is more soap opera than spectacle
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‘April’ Review: Abortion Drama Is a Singular Horror Show
Venice Film Festival: Director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s distinct film follows an OB-GYN who performs illegal abortions in Georgia
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‘Queer’ Review: Daniel Craig Boozes and Cruises in Luca Guadagnino’s Transportive Lust Story
Venice Film Festival: The James Bond actor perfects the art of longing in the “Call Me by Your Name” filmmaker’s William S. Burroughs adaptation
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‘The Room Next Door’ Review: Pedro Almodóvar Doesn’t Quite Find the Life in Contemplating Death
Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore join the Spanish filmmaker for a series of monologues on mortality
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‘The Brutalist’ Review: Brady Corbet’s Epic Charts Sweeping Immigrant Story
Venice Film Festival: Adrien Brody anchors this three-and-a-half-hour treatise on American ambition
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‘The Order’ Review: A Paunchy Jude Law Dominates Neo-Nazi Drama
Venice Film Festival: Director Justin Kurzel’s most accomplished work to date offsets broody fatalism against natural splendor
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‘Babygirl’ Review: Nicole Kidman Goes Dom-Com for Safe, Commercial Kink
Venice Film Festival: The A24 film is a descendant of “Fifty Shades” without much bite
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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Review: Sequel Is a Tim Burton Buffet, For Better and Worse
Venice Film Festival: Jenna Ortega and Winona Ryder star in the long-awaited follow-up
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How the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Created a Haven for Cinema in a World of Trouble
In the midst of international tumult, the Czech festival showcased notable films like the Norwegian drama “Loveable”
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Karlovy Vary Film Festival Winners List: ‘A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things’ Takes Top Prize
“Loveable” and “Three Days of Fish” also won at the Czech Republic fest