Reviews
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‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’ Review: Michel Hazanavicius’ Animated Holocaust Drama Struggles With Restraint
Cannes 2024: This flawed yet fascinating film is best when it’s poetically delicate
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‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Review: Profoundly Brave Film Captures the Struggle of Iran’s People
Cannes 2024: Blazing with sober force and white-hot rage, it leaves little room for subtlety in unsubtle times
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‘Atlas’ Review: Jennifer Lopez Stars in Artificial, Unintelligent Sci-Fi Thriller
Brad Peyton’s middling mech suit-‘em-up for Netflix costars Sterling K. Brown and Simu Liu
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‘All We Imagine as Light’ Review: An Intimate Peek Into the Grind of Big-City Mumbai Life
Cannes 2024: The film marks the first from an Indian filmmaker to compete for the Palme d’Or in three decades
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‘Beating Hearts’ Review: Gilles Lellouche’s Melodramatic Romance Epic Loses the Magic
Cannes 2024: Adèle Exarchopoulos stars in a film that starts strong before going off a cliff
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‘Santosh’ Review: Shahana Goswami Commands the Screen in Story About Indian Policing
Cannes 2024: Sandhya Suri’s feature debut subverts the standard police procedural
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‘Motel Destino’ Review: Karim Aïnouz’s Erotically Charged Thriller Has Plenty of Visual Spark But Fizzles Out
Cannes 2024: Though its colors often pop off the screen, its direction, writing and performances remain disappointingly flat
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‘Armand’ Review: Renate Reinsve Is Riveting in Fearsome Chamber Drama
Cannes 2024: Though she won Best Actress at the festival for her performance in 2021’s ‘The Worst Person in the World,’ Reinsve’s latest is her best work to date
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‘Parthenope’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino Whips Up More Great Beauty in Melancholic Tale
Cannes 2024: Gary Oldman has a small but essential role in another languorous romance from the Italian director
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‘Marcello Mio’ Review: Christophe Honoré’s Charming Comedy Boasts a Terrific Chiara Mastroianni
Cannes 2024: With a delightful cast playing versions of themselves, this film is a funny look at acting, performance, and familial legacy
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‘Anora’ Review: Sean Baker Whips Up a Wild Stripper Romance Thriller Comedy, or Something Like That
Cannes 2024: The film swings wildly back and forth while also hanging onto its heart, and it’s just too much fun to worry about how much Baker is cramming in
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‘The Shrouds’ Review: David Cronenberg’s Exploration of Grief Is as Sad as It Is Creepy
Cannes 2024: Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger star in a movie inspired by the 2017 death of the director’s wife
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‘The Kingdom’ Review: A Confident Debut Worthy of History’s Great Mob Films
Cannes 2024: Filmmaker Julien Colonna and breakout newcomer Ghjuvanna Benedetti have a bright future in Hollywood
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‘The Apprentice’ Review: Donald Trump Movie Starring Sebastian Stan Plays Like a Tragic Frankenstein Tale
Cannes 2024: With Stan as a young Trump and Jeremy Strong as lawyer Roy Cohn, the film is amusing at times and disturbing at others
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‘Garfield: The Movie’ Review: An Animated Adventure With More Heart (and Lasagna) Than Laughs
Chris Pratt and Samuel L. Jackson star in the first halfway decent movie based on the classic comic strip
