‘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
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‘Ali & Ava’ Film Review: Interracial Romance Is Rich in Details
Cannes 2021: British director Clio Barnard’s film is also an acting showcase for Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook
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‘Flag Day’ Film Review: Sean Penn Directs His Daughter in Rocky Family Drama
Cannes 2021: While the true-life film sometimes struggles with disparate tones, it’s a solid, subtle drama that opts in most cases for restraint over excess
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‘Compartment No. 6’ Film Review: Finnish Drama Is a Slow-Moving Train to Revelation
Cannes 2021: The story of a Finnish architecture student and a Russian boor sharing a train compartment is deliberate in pace and wintry in tone
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‘The Divide’ Film Review: Catherine Corsini Tackles French Troubles With Gallows Humor
Cannes 2021: The film wrangles the country’s various cultural, racial and social tensions under one leaky roof
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‘The Storms of Jeremy Thomas’ Film Review: Documentary Is the Ultimate Self-Referential Cannes Movie
Cannes 2021: British producer Thomas is a Cannes legend, a regular in the Main Competition with a penchant for films that explore the boundaries of sex and violence
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‘Unclenching the Fists’ and ‘Murina’ Reviews: Cannes Dramas Explore Women’s Struggles for Control
Cannes 2021: Many films at this year’s festival have engaged in a multifaceted conversation about young women around the globe trying to find some agency in their own lives
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‘Benedetta’ Film Review: Paul Verhoeven Delivers Beauty, Belief and Nun-on-Nun Sex
Cannes 2021: In this erotic drama, the Dutch provocateur has managed to encompass all the themes and obsessions that have marked his five-decade, three-language career
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‘The Worst Person in the World’ Film Review: Charming Romantic Drama Offers Unfolding Delights
Cannes 2021: Veteran Norwegian director Joachim Trier has made his most appealing and marketable film to date
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‘Where Is Anne Frank’ Film Review: Animated Feature Puts Holocaust Heroine in Timely Fantasy
Cannes 2021: ”Waltz With Bashir“ director Ari Folman has made another sophisticated animated film that tells a wartime story to which the filmmaker has a personal connection
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‘Cow’ Film Review: Gritty Documentary Gives Us a Cow’s Life, From the Cruel to the Sexy
Cannes 2021: Andrea Arnold’s film is a piece of pure cinema that’s also loaded with political meaning
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‘Black Widow’ Film Review: Scarlett Johansson Adds a Dash of 007 to the MCU
Her presumed exit from the series allows her to tap out as Florence Pugh taps in
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What’s New on DVD in July: ‘Shiva Baby,’ Cannon Films, ‘Working Girls,’ and More
Alonso Duralde spotlights the best new physical-media releases
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‘Jane by Charlotte’ Film Review: An Intriguing Portrait of Jane Birkin, by Her Daughter
Cannes 2021: Charlotte Gainsbourg’s documentary about her mother attains levels of intimacy and emotion alongside moments of banality
