‘Dune’ Film Review: Huge Sci-Fi Epic Is Relentlessly Dark But Thrilling
Timothée Chalamet stars in Denis Villeneuve’s dazzling and frustrating take on Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 novel
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‘Last Night in Soho’ Film Review: Edgar Wright Salutes London’s Sleazy Glamour and Dangerous Romance
Great performances and brilliant needle-drops bolster Wright’s best film since ”Shaun of the Dead“
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‘The Last Duel’ Film Review: Matt Damon’s Medieval Hero Outshines Ridley Scott’s Muddled Mystery
Great performances and stunning cinematography can’t save a would-be
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‘Halloween Kills’ Film Review: Michael Myers Lives to Kill Yet Again in Effective Sequel
Jamie Lee Curtis’s Laurie is joined by characters we haven’t seen since the 1978 original, as Haddonfield fights back against its collective nightmare
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‘Old Henry’ Film Review: Tim Blake Nelson Is a Reluctant Hero in Intimate Western Gem
Writer-director Potsy Ponciroli has made a dark, sorrowful meditation on aging, guilt and redemption
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‘Inu-Oh’ Film Review: Feudal Anime Mixes Headbanging Pyrotechnics and Political Defiance
Venice 2021: Masaaki Yuasa blends genres and ideas in a brilliantly intense and unhinged animated feature
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‘The Card Counter’ Film Review: Oscar Isaac’s Gambler Is Haunted by His Torturous Past
Paul Schrader once again plumbs the themes that typify his screen output, but he finds new grace notes along the way
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‘7 Prisoners’ Film Review: Brutal Brazilian Drama Examines Modern-Day Slavery and Exploitation
Venice 2021: Rodrigo Santoro plays a cruel boss who’s merely part of a pyramid of economic abuse in this social-realist powerhouse
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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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‘Sundown’ Film Review: Tim Roth Is an Enigma in Riveting and Banal Mexican Drama
Venice 2021: Director Michel Franco lets his story unfold incrementally and mysteriously
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‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Film Review: Like the Band, the Movie Is Potent and Excessive
Venice Film Festival 2021: Bernard MacMahon’s documentary includes rare interviews with the surviving members of the band
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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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‘The Lost Daughter’ Film Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Captures the Secret Life of Mothers
Venice 2021: Her debut as a writer-director (adapting Elena Ferrante’s novel) is a masterpiece of mood and subtlety
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‘Spencer’ Film Review: Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana Makes for a Brilliant and Silly Drama
Venice 2021: Chilean director Pablo Larrain’s film has the potential to become a gothic, almost camp classic
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‘The Hand of God’ Film Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s Autobiographical Coming-of-Age Tale Sticks to the Shallow End
Venice 2021: The ”Great Beauty“ director clearly wants his own ”Amarcord,“ but he seems to lack a point of view about his own origins
