Reviews
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‘Summer Camp’ Review: Diane Keaton and Kathy Bates Revisit the Glory Days in Low-Stakes Comedy
Alfre Woodard, Eugene Levy and Dennis Haysbert costar in this breezy “reducing of age” film
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‘Young Woman and the Sea’ Review: Daisy Ridley Breaks Swimming Barriers in Biopic That Channels Greatness
This is an old-fashioned, first-rate Disney crowdpleaser from director Joachim Rønning
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‘Grand Tour’ Review: Miguel Gomes’ Sprawling Travelogue Traverses Space and Time
Cannes 2024: The Portuguese auteur fascinates and frustrates in this meandering and melancholic film
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‘Limonov: The Ballad’ Review: Ben Whishaw Shines in a Jukebox Musical of Urban Squalor
Cannes 2024: Kirill Serebrennikov’s film is about a Russian poet and rabble rouser, but it spends much of its time in New York City at its grimiest low
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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
