‘How to Talk to Girls at Parties’ Film Review: Punks Meet Aliens in Messy Mash-Up
Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman are among the stars of John Cameron Mitchell’s awkward film, which could have been a midnight-movie hit in another era
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‘Summer 1993’ Film Review: Sensitive Debut Follows Motherless Girl to New Family
Reflecting on her own childhood tragedy, Spanish filmmaker Carla Simón tells a heartwarming, honest story of a six-year-old’s resilience
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‘Mary Shelley’ Film Review: Elle Fanning, and the Author She Plays, Deserve a Better Movie
This ironically lifeless biopic of the “Frankenstein” author seems more interested in judging her life choices than celebrating her genius
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‘The Gospel According to André’ Film Review: Vogue’s André Leon Talley Recalls His Stylish Life
From the Jim Crow-era South to Paris to the Olympus of fashion journalism, André Leon Talley is a deity of taste and vision
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‘The Misandrists’ Film Review: Bruce LaBruce Sends Up Feminist Ideology in Dated Satire
The Canadian provocateur jabs at a version of feminism that hasn’t been prevalent for decades
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Film Review: So-So Prequel Says Nothing New About Beloved Characters
Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover have chemistry to burn, but it’s wasted here on fan service
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‘Fahrenheit 451’ Film Review: Michael B. Jordan Remakes Ray Bradbury for the Age of Fake News
Cannes 2018: Ramin Bahrani directed a new adaptation starring Michael Shannon
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‘The Wild Pear Tree’ Film Review: Cannes Competition Ends With Exasperating, Talky Drama
Cannes 2018: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Winter Sleep” won the Palme d’Or in 2014, but his new “The Wild Pear Tree” has plenty of the former’s verbose sprawl with little of its gravitas and heft
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‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Film Review: Terry Gilliam Finally Delivers Messy Fun
Cannes 2018: The director has lost none of his Monty Python irreverence despite the years of calamity that befell this seemingly doomed production
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‘Knife + Heart’ Film Review: Gay Porn Murder Story Pays Tribute to Exploitation Cinema
Cannes 2018: Yann Gonzalez’s lascivious film is an appealingly stylish destination for our eyes and ears, even if its storytelling can sometimes falter
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‘Capharnaum’ Film Review: Nadine Labaki’s Searing Drama Brings Tears, Ovations
Cannes 2018: Film about undocumented boy is a kind of “Slumdog Millionaire” scrubbed of empty flash and infused with blistering geopolitical resonance
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‘Whitney’ Cannes Review: Beyond the Bombshells Is a Straightforward Music Documentary
Cannes 2018: Where the Oscar-winning “Amy” was a full-on record, Kevin Macdonald’s Whitney Houston doc is more of a greatest hits compilation
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‘Show Dogs’ Film Review: Sloppy, Unfunny Comedy Merely a Collection of Pet Peeves
There’s a reason talking animal movies often get a bad rap, and this Vegas-set dud is a perfect example
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‘Dogman’ Film Review: Good Man Goes Bad in Muscular Italian Drama
Cannes 2018: Without much dialogue, director Matteo Garrone lets his story play out in the confrontations between two very different criminals
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‘Burning’ Film Review: Korean Auteur Lee Chang-dong Returns With Breathtaking Drama
Cannes 2018: Sections of the film rank among the most accomplished displays of cinematic poetry since 2011’s Palme d’Or winner “The Tree of Life”
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‘First Reformed’ Film Review: Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke Channel Robert Bresson
Hawke’s tormented cleric is part Bresson’s anti-hero, part Travis Bickle
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‘On Chesil Beach’ Film Review: Saoirse Ronan Drama Only Starts Out Like a Sex Comedy
After a light beginning as a nervous young couple approaches the wedding bed, the touching Ian McEwan adaptation gets darker and sadder
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‘Book Club’ Film Review: Women-of-a-Certain-Age Sex Comedy Has Poignancy Beneath the Pratfalls
The men are fine, but more scenes with just the quartet of powerhouse actresses would have been even better
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‘At War’ Film Review: Vincent Lindon Improvises His Way to the Front of the Cannes Best Actor Race
Cannes 2018: Lindon stars in French director Stephane Brize’s escalating tale of futile anger and post-globalized doom
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‘That Summer’ Film Review: Little Edie at Grey Gardens, Before ‘Grey Gardens’
A fascinating look at an aborted documentary project that led to the legendary film about Jackie Kennedy’s “eccentric” relatives
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‘The House That Jack Built’ Film Review: The Real Shocker Is How Dull Lars von Trier’s Film Is
Cannes 2018: Lars von Trier’s gleeful look at a sadistic killer is actually boring when it isn’t grossing you out
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‘Deadpool 2’ Film Review: Ryan Reynolds Gives His All to a Joke Told the Second Time
The laughs and the action are still there, but not the ante-upping that makes a comedy sequel rise above
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‘Asako I & II’ Film Review: Leisurely Japanese Drama Explores Nature of Love
Cannes 2018: director Hamaguchi Ryusuke tells story of a young woman whose first love abandons her, so she finds another man who looks just like him
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‘Happy as Lazzaro’ Film Review: Alice Rohrwacher Charts the Course of a Holy Fool
Cannes 2018: Rohrwacher’s fable, the second of this year’s competition films from a female director, is both transporting and maddening
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‘Climax’ Film Review: Is It a Movie, or an LSD Trip?
Cannes 2018: Director Gaspar Noé unleashes a troupe of Europe’s most nimble dancers to vogue you, krump you and pop-lock you through one very bad trip
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‘Three Faces’ Film Review: Once Again, Jafar Panahi Is Modest But Profound
Cannes 2018: The Iranian director is officially forbidden from making films for 20 years, but “Three Faces” is the latest exceptional work he’s made in the face of that ban
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‘Girls of the Sun’ Film Review: A Middle Eastern Feminist Hero Slays ISIS
Cannes 2018: The story of a female Kurdish unit brings to vivid life the stories we have all read but found so hard to imagine
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‘The World Is Yours’ Film Review: Romain Gavras’ Pop Comedy Is an Absolute Blast
Cannes 2018: Music-video director Romain Gavras has created a “Blues Brothers”-like jaunt for a generation raised on Adderall and French hip hop
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‘To the Ends of the World’ Film Review: At Last, Here’s France’s Vietnam War Movie
Cannes 2018: Guillaume Nicloux brings a touch of European art film to the conflict that has inspired American films like “Platoon” and “Apocalypse Now”
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‘Girl’ Film Review: Transgender Teen Drama Is a True Cannes Discovery
Cannes 2018: The gentle but wrenching film about a teenager who “just wants to be a girl” is the first work from 26-year-old Belgian director Lukas Dhont
