‘Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo’ Film Review: Abdellatif Kechiche Trolls Cannes With NSFW Excess
Cannes 2019: This sexually explicit three-and-half-hour-long provocation feels like a director self-immolating
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‘Echo in the Canyon’ Film Review: Documentary Takes a Hazy Look at a Key Moment in Rock History
Music legends crafted immortal sounds in Laurel Canyon, but this well-meaning film can’t quite wrap its arms around the story
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‘After Maria’ Film Review: Devastating Doc Explores the Human Toll of a Hurricane’s Aftermath
Caught between homes in disarray and government bureaucracy, women displaced by Hurricane Maria struggle to move forward
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‘The Traitor’ Film Review: Sturdy Mafia Biopic Loses Something in Translation
Cannes 2019: Actor Pierfrancesco Favino delivers an exquisite movie star turn
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‘The Secret Life of Pets 2’ Film Review: Cartoon Offers Outdated Messages About Marriage, Manliness
Come for the adorable puppies, stay for the toxic masculinity and antediluvian notions regarding love and family
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‘Oh Mercy’ Film Review: Is This Cop Drama a Pilot In Disguise?
Cannes 2019: Idiosyncratic director Arnaud Desplechin breaks form with this standard-issue procedural
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‘Matthias & Maxime’ Film Review: Xavier Dolan Finds Maturity at the Ripe Old Age of 30
Cannes 2019: The Canadian director has always been a maestro of oversized emotions, but the warmth and restraint of “Matthias & Maxime” is what gives it life
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‘Booksmart’ Film Review: Debut Director Olivia Wilde Delivers Witty Coming-of-Age Comedy
Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein create a believable friendship in a tale of young nerdy girls out for a wild grad night
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‘Woodstock’ Film Review: Anniversary Doc Takes Boomers on an Evocative Trip Down Memory Lane
Tribeca 2019: Those “Three Days That Defined a Generation” get another look in a movie that pales next to the 1970 classic concert film
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‘Aladdin’ (2019) Film Review: Guy Ritchie Delivers Chintzy Live-Action Remake With Will Smith
Seemingly set in a sanitized corner of Adventureland, the real fantasy offered here is getting to be in Will Smith’s entourage
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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ Film Review: Sisters Hide From the World in Riveting Shirley Jackson Adaptation
Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Sebastian Stan and Crispin Glover are electrifying in Stacie Passon’s second feature
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‘Photograph’ Film Review: Mumbai Romance Feels Sweet but Slight
There’s plenty of charm — and contrivance — in the latest from Ritesh Batra (“Our Souls at Night,” “The Lunchbox”)
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‘For Sama’ Film Review: Syrian Documentary Finds Wrenching Personal Take on Conflict
Cannes Film Festival 2019: The Syrian tragedy has been the subject of numerous nonfiction films, but directors Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts put the children at its center
