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‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Wins Palme d’Or at 2023 Cannes Film Festival
By Steve Pond | May 27, 2023 @ 11:39 AMCannes 2023: Acting awards go to Koji Yakusho for ”Perfect Days“ and Merve Dizdar for ”About Dry Grasses“
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‘Asteroid City’ Review: Wes Anderson Buries His Sci-Fi Story Under Fancy Piles of Eccentricity
By Steve Pond | May 23, 2023 @ 10:22 AMCannes 2023: Anderson’s movie looks amazing, of course, but it might well be the least involving film he’s ever made
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‘Fallen Leaves’ Review: Deadpan Comedy Brings Heart and Wit to a Tale of Lost Souls
By Steve Pond | May 22, 2023 @ 9:06 AMCannes 2023: Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki has complete control of a delicate tone that could easily go awry
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Cannes So Far: Sentimental Audiences Meet Unsentimental Movies
By Steve Pond | May 22, 2023 @ 6:00 AMCannes 2023: In its first six days, the prestigious festival showered love on Martin Scorsese and Harrison Ford but also showcased chilling films about the Holocaust and terrorism
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‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Review: Justine Triet’s Family Drama Keeps the Audience Guessing
By Steve Pond | May 21, 2023 @ 4:19 PMCannes 2023: Sandra Hüller plays a woman who may have murdered her husband in sophisticated film that delights in ambiguity
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‘The Breaking Ice’ Review: Portrait of Aimless Youth Has Beauty and Purpose
By Steve Pond | May 21, 2023 @ 3:37 AMCannes 2023: Anthony Chen has created a luminous “Jules and Jim” riff that manages to be both meditative and propulsive
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Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Brings the House Down in Cannes
By Steve Pond | May 20, 2023 @ 2:03 PMCannes 2023: The director unveiled his three-and-a-half-hour drama, and the festival audience was ready for more
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‘Banel & Adama’ Review: First-Time African Filmmaker Mixes Reverie With Calamity
By Steve Pond | May 20, 2023 @ 7:35 AMCannes 2023: Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s debut feature is a lyrical love story set in a parched, tradition-bound village in Senegal
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‘The New Boy’ Review: Cate Blanchett Drama Delivers an Unsettling Blend of Religion and Magic
By Steve Pond | May 19, 2023 @ 5:09 PMCannes 2023: Director Warwick Thornton, with help from Blanchett as actor and producer, tells a mystical story that ties into shameful Australian history
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Sean Penn Slams Movie Producers, Calls Healthcare System a Racket in Cannes Press Conference
By Steve Pond | May 19, 2023 @ 4:57 AMCannes 2023: Penn’s ”Black Flies“ costar Tye Sheridan also shared that he let the veteran actor give him an IV in preparation for the brutal paramedic drama
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‘Black Flies’ Review: Saving Lives Is Hell in Brutal Sean Penn Drama
By Steve Pond | May 18, 2023 @ 5:30 PMCannes 2023: Penn and Tye Sheridan play paramedics in Jean-Stephane Sauvaire’s unrelentingly ugly film
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‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ Review: It Might Be Silly, But It’s Indy
By Steve Pond | May 18, 2023 @ 3:44 PMCannes 2023: Director James Mangold whips up an exuberant action flick that relies on the charm and charisma of Harrison Ford
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‘Youth’ Review: Look Inside Chinese Sweatshops Is Long, Sobering – and Occasionally Fun
By Steve Pond | May 18, 2023 @ 9:01 AMCannes 2023: Wang Bing’s documentary drops us into clothing factories where teenagers and young adults both work and live
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Johnny Depp in Cannes: ‘What You’ve Been Reading About Me Is Fantastically, Horrifically Written Fiction’
By Steve Pond | May 17, 2023 @ 5:39 AMCannes 2023: ”I don’t have much further need for Hollywood, myself,“ the actor also said at a press conference
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‘Jeanne du Barry’ Film Review: Cannes Fuss Over Johnny Depp Overwhelms an Inert Period Piece
By Steve Pond | May 16, 2023 @ 2:51 PMCannes 2023: The drama from writer-director-actress Maïwenn has lots of style but precious little energy