Dave White
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‘A Couple’ Review: Frederick Wiseman Turns Sophia Tolstoy’s Diaries Into Scripted Drama
The acclaimed documentary filmmaker and French actress Nathalie Boutefeu collaborate on a quietly bracing examination of love gone wrong
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‘Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams’ Review: Luca Guadagnino Lovingly Lionizes Ferragamo
The legendary Italian designer spun a life of invention, tenacity, art and commerce
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‘Hellraiser’ Review: Horror Reboot Is an Elegant Return to Clive Barker’s ‘Repulsive Glamour’
An updated, reimagined world of supernatural suffering makes good on the perverse promise of Pinhead and the Cenobites
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‘My Donkey, My Lover & I’ Film Review: French Lovelorn-Summer-Holiday Genre Gets a Braying Boost
A César-winning performance from “Call My Agent!” star Laure Calamy grounds this lighter-than-air hot-weather comedy
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‘Flux Gourmet’ Film Review: Peter Strickland’s Culinary Art-Happening Hungers for Sonic Truth
The director of “The Duke of Burgundy” and “In Fabric” wrings catharsis from Fluxus and reflux
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‘In Front of Your Face’ Film Review: Hong Sang-soo Weaves a Gentle Hymn to the Joy of Life
South Korean screen vet Lee Hye-young returns as a woman determined to live in the present
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‘Hit the Road’ Film Review: Panah Panahi’s Stunning Debut Feature Detours Into the Unknown
The anxious uncertainty of life in exile embeds itself in a tender and tragic tale of an Iranian family’s journey
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‘Întregalde’ Film Review: Bitter Romanian Comedy Strands Do-Gooders in a Moral Wilderness
The latest from Radu Muntean (“Tuesday, After Christmas”) fuses horror tropes to low-key social realism
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‘Air Doll’ Film Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda and Bae Doona Take on the Inner Life of a Sentient Sex Toy
The acclaimed “Shoplifters” filmmaker’s 2009 fantasy exploration of human disconnection finally gets a U.S. release
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‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Film Review: Romanian Oscar Entry Explores the Meaning of XXX Privacy and Hypocrisy
A structurally inventive comedy from provocative filmmaker Radu Jude wrestles with history, misogyny, religion, and stubborn provincial morality
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‘Labyrinth of Cinema’ Film Review: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Head-Spinning History Lesson
The late filmmaker’s final work is an extravagant message of peace to a world forever at war
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‘The Jesus Music’ Film Review: Amy Grant, Stryper and TobyMac Dominate an Eager-to-Please Documentary
The Contemporary Christian Music industry is afraid of its own shadow — and so is the film
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‘Days’ Film Review: Tsai Ming-liang Finds Men Living in a Lonely Place
The latest from the acclaimed Taiwanese filmmaker is a spare, nearly silent story of urban solitude and human connection
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‘Mandibles’ Film Review: Absurdist French Comedy Doubles Down on the Dumb
The latest from Quentin Dupieux (“Rubber”) turns a giant insect puppet and a nonsense plot into a happy road trip to nowhere
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‘Undine’ Film Review: Christian Petzold’s Romantic Drama Plumbs the Depths of European Myth
German actors Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski breathe life into doomed lovers at the intersection of fantasy and history