‘Red Rocket’ Film Review: Sean Baker Finds a Touch of Donald Trump in His Porn-World Hustler
Cannes 2021: The film may be another Baker indie drama about sex workers, but it’s also got plenty to say about the last four years
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‘Escape Room 2’ Review: Exciting, Illogical Sequel Sets New Elaborate Traps
‘Tournament of Champions’ might not make a lick of sense, but it’s a meticulously constructed thrill machine
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‘Blue Bayou’ Film Review: Justin Chon’s Timely Immigration Story Slips From Lyrical to Overwrought
Cannes 2021: The family drama tackles important U.S. policy issues but gets undercut by the melodrama
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‘Deception’ Film Review: French Philip Roth Adaptation Is an Awful Slog to Sit Through
Cannes 2021: Despite the handsome production values, director Arnaud Desplechin’s talky drama is a postcard for archivists and a curio for obsessives
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‘Titane’ Review: ‘Raw’ Director Returns With Graphic, Gender-Exploring Body Horror Film
Cannes 2021: Julia Ducournau’s sophomore effort isn’t for the faint of heart
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‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ Film Review: Cool Casting Can’t Save ’90s-Style Thriller
The talents of Angela Bassett and Michelle Yeoh, to name a few, are wasted in a film that’s retro in the worst ways
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‘A Hero’ Film Review: Asghar Farhadi’s Precise Moral Drama Moves Like a Thriller
Cannes 2021: Might there be Laurels for Farhadi as an Iranian man gets himself into a fine mess over a pot of gold?
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‘Petrov’s Flu’ Film Review: Provocative Russian Drama Is Exhilarating and Exhausting
Cannes 2021: Kirill Serebrennikov made a formidable piece of filmmaking that also uses its own virtuoso technique as a blunt-force tool against the audience
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‘Schmigadoon!’ TV Review: AppleTV+ Musical Comedy Is Uneven, But a Short and Sweet Confection
Broadway aficionados should find themselves getting to know all about this good-natured television tuner
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‘JFK Revisited’ Film Review: Oliver Stone Keeps Digging, But He Still Doesn’t Have the Answers
Cannes 2021: In Stone’s new documentary about the JFK assassination, every gun becomes a smoking one, until there’s so much smoke you can’t see anything clearly
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‘The French Dispatch’ Film Review: Wes Anderson Creates a Stylish, Exhausting Sampler Pack
Cannes 2021: The episodic film may be the ultimate Anderson movie, whipping everything he does into five jewel-box episodes without the need to make anything serve a larger story
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‘Bergman Island’ Film Review: Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps Star in Light and Airy Ingmar Bergman Riff
Cannes 2021: Mia Hansen-Løve has created a Russian nesting doll of a movie, commenting on itself while throwing manna to the cinephile masses
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‘Evolution’ Film Review: ‘Pieces of a Woman’ Filmmakers Offer a Powerful Meditation on Trauma
Cannes 2021: Director Kornél Mundruczó and writer Kata Wéber explore the complicated identity of Jews in and around Germany after World War II
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‘Three Floors’ Film Review: Italian Drama Just Doesn’t Work on Any Level
Cannes 2021: Director Nanni Moretti is a Cannes regular, but this film set in a middle-class apartment building is one of the worst efforts in a great career
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‘Drive My Car’ Film Review: The Trip Starts Strong But Then It Sputters
Cannes 2021: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s drama is bursting with interesting flourishes and winsome tangents, but also with heavy-handed melodrama
