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DADDIO Review: Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn, Sitting in a Cab, Talking
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Writer/director Christy Hall's film is a two-hander starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Interview: Léa Drucker on Collaborating with Catherine Breillat on ‘Last Summer’
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Drucker discusses how she handled Breillat’s precise and often “tyrannical” directing style. The post Interview: Léa Drucker on Collaborating with Catherine Breillat on ‘Last Summer’ appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Last Summer (L’Été dernier) | Review
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One Deadly Summer: Breillat Agitates Another Sexual Taboo Suddenly, last summer, a successful lawyer who has it all risks throwing her life away with an illicit sexual liaison in Last Summer, the return of eternal provocateur Catherine Breillat for her...
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FAMILY PORTRAIT Review: A Disconcerting Disappearence Makes a Haunted Gathering
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For many families, the yearly portrait is not just a ritual, but an custom inviolate. Maybe there's only one person in the family that actually wants the portrait and might even enjoy the process - but it gets done nonetheless....
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SKINCARE Official Trailer: Elizabeth Banks Feels Very Threatened in Upcoming Thriller
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Austin Peters' vanity crime thriller, Skincare, has just released its official trailer and first teaser poster. With the always awesome Elizabeth Banks in the lead this comes hot on the heels of news that IFC Films picked it up for...
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Chattanooga 2024 Review: SWEET RELIEF, Or, BLUE VELVET for the 21st Century
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While many films, including some of its festival mates at the Chattanooga Film Festival this year, regurgitate some of David Lynch's images and ideas, Sweet Relief offers something comparable to, rather than derivative of the master of modern dark surrealism....
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Apple TV+’s Daring, Unpredictable Sunny is Summer TV Standout
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Apple TV+ is slowly shaping up to be one of the best streaming services around. Having recently brought us the likes of “Bad Sisters,” “Severance” and “Presumed Innocent,” they are also shelling out some of the most interesting thrillers in...
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Kinds of Kindness
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After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos Lanthimos is back in provocateur mode. Working more in the vein of his earlier, more surreal flicks like “The Lobster,” “Dogtooth” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,"...
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Here Trailer: Robert Zemeckis Crafts a Single-Perspective Epic Spanning Centuries
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It was just yesterday we learned Robert Zemeckis was taking another ambitious formal gamble in his career with Here. His adaptation of Richard McGuire’s comic, which spans a single space from 500,957,406,073 BCE to the year 22,175 CE, was shot...
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MaXXXine Review: Ti West Takes a Self-Aware Victory Lap
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If knives weren’t already being sharpened for Ti West prior to MaXXXine––the third installment in his X series of exploitation throwbacks––they likely will be at the ready once discerning horror fans experience it. On the surface, this is West returning...
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