‘Brightburn’ Film Review: The Kid’s Not All Right, Nor Is James Gunn’s Superhero Horror Lark
An origin-of-evil story cribbed from a famed superhero’s mythos amounts to little more than a collection of uninspired horror tropes
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‘Continuity’ Theater Review: Climate May Be Changing But Hollywood Never Will
Bess Wohl’s new comedy takes place on the set of a big-budget thriller that’s unraveling on and off camera
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‘Parasite’ Film Review: Bong Joon-ho Tackles Disparity With Delicious Dark Comedy
Cannes 2019: This darkly funny thriller with a searing social conscience is a remarkable success, but will the jury see past its genre?
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‘Diamantino’ Film Review: Giant Puppies and Soccer Dominate Goofball Comedy
A scattershot mix of camp and political sensibilities, this bizarre movie certainly doesn’t play by the rules
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‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Film Review: A Contemplative Quentin Tarantino Still Blows the Roof Off Cannes
Cannes 2019: Big, brash, ridiculous, too long, and in the end invigorating, the film is a grand playground for its director to fetishize old pop culture and bring his gleeful perversity to the craft of moviemaking
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‘The Tomorrow Man’ Film Review: Blythe Danner and John Lithgow Overcome Boundaries to Find Love
He’s obsessed with the future and she’s stuck in the past, but in Noble Jones’ impressive debut, together they can live in the now
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‘Frankie’ Film Review: Isabelle Huppert and Marisa Tomei Shine in Quiet Family Drama
Cannes 2019: Ira Sachs’ melancholy tone poem follows French and American actors in a picturesque European setting
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‘Lux Aeterna’ Film Review: Gaspar Noe Wants to Mess You Up, Again
Cannes 2019: The Argentinian maestro of transgression has unleashed another assault on his audience, but it’s almost mesmerizing in its perverse single-mindedness
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‘Octet’ Theater Review: Internet Addicts Harmonize in a ‘Black Mirror’-Inspired Musical
Eight people who can’t shake their digital obsessions make beautiful harmony together
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‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ Film Review: Ravishing Drama Is a Feminist Tale From a Pre-Feminist World
Cannes 2019: Laced with bittersweet romanticism, director Céline Sciamma’s strong prize contender is fundamentally about the act of looking
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‘Mac Beth’ Theater Review: High School Girls Reenact the Bard With Much Sound but No Fury
Erica Schmidt’s trainwreck of a production is an insult to both Shakespeare and teenage girls
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‘A Hidden Life’ Film Review: Is This Where Terrence Malick Gets His Mojo Back?
Cannes 2019: Anchored in story in a way his last few movies have not been, this World War II drama is the director’s most monumental work since “The Tree of Life”
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‘The Lighthouse’ Film Review: Robert Pattinson Rocks Cannes With a Portrait of Madness
Cannes 2019: Before he has a chance to don Batman’s cowl, Pattison teams with Willem Dafoe to rip into this black-and-white fever dream with demented glee
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‘Vivarium’ Review: Jesse Eisenberg Satire Bites Off More Than It Can Chew
Cannes 2019: Eisenberg and Imogen Poots star in director Lorcan Finnegan’s film set in a purgatorial pre-fab suburb, but it never follows through on its interesting ideas
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‘Family Romance, LLC’ Film Review: Love’s for Sale in Werner Herzog’s Odd New Film
Cannes 2019: A curious little meditation on the commodification of everything up to and including love, the film is slight but has moments of pure Herzogian rhapsody
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‘The Whistlers’ Film Review: Romanian Wild Ride Runs on Black Humor
Cannes 2019: Corneliu Porumboiu’s film is an oversized, deliciously twisted ride that slips in references to John Wayne and Alfred Hitchcock
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‘The Wild Goose Lake’ Film Review: Chinese Action Flick Is Indulgent but Fun
Cannes 2019: Director Diao Yinan puts his own spin on some familiar action tropes
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‘Port Authority’ Film Review: Searching for Family in New York’s LGBT Ball Scene
Cannes 2019: Danielle Lessovitz’s debut feature is a rough but vital film for the age of “Pose” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
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‘Pain and Glory’ Film Review: Antonio Banderas Plays Pedro Almodóvar – Sort Of
Cannes 2019: Almodóvar’s gentle memory piece replaces the youthful provocation of his early films with mature reflection
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‘The Climb’ Film Review: For a Change, Cannes Does Comedy
Cannes 2019: Director Michael Angelo Covino wrings genuine surprise from some of the staples of modern American humor
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‘Little Joe’ Film Review: Cannes Gets a Horticultural Horror Flick
Cannes 2019: Jessica Hausner stages a gonzo genre freakout about a specially-bred flower that develops sinister powers
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‘Perfect’ Film Review: Beautiful, Pointless Sci-Fi Saga Remains Aggressively Skin-Deep
There’s so much to look at and listen to in this sumptuously crafted film, but almost nothing to think about
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‘I Lost My Body’ Film Review: Bizarre Animated Film Finds Graphic Poetry in a Severed Hand
Cannes 2019: The story of a hand trying to find the body it once belonged to could nudge director Jeremy Clapin toward the top rank of film animators
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‘Happy Talk’ Theater Review: Susan Sarandon Plays a Drama Queen in New Jesse Eisenberg Comedy
Sarandon returns to the New York stage for the first time in a decade for an uneven new dramedy
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‘Sorry We Missed You’ Film Review: Once Again, Ken Loach Sings the Working Class Blues
Cannes 2019: Loach’s new film could make him the first director to win three Palme d’Or awards, but he struggles to find anything fresh to say in his usual arena
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‘Rocketman’ Film Review: Elton John Gets a Musical Fantasy That Sometimes Achieves Liftoff
Cannes 2019: Dexter Fletcher’s film abandons the biopic model to freely mix fantasy and reality in an extravagant, fun and frustrating jukebox musical
