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“SPECIES”
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THE STORY – Margot, a young intern at the most competitive ER in the country, has trouble keeping up in this stressful environment. As she’s confronted with multiple patients her age presenting unusual symptoms, her own body starts to show disturbing...
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Fatherland | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Every Mann for Themselves: Pawlikowski Remains Chilly with Cold War Permafrost Two iconoclastic German writers are locked in a spiritual duel for relevance at the onset of a tenuous new world order in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, arguably more frosty than...
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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’
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After gaining international recognition with Berlinale entries in Silver Bear for Best Director About Elly (2009) and Golden Bear winning (plus Oscar winning) A Separation in 2011, Asghar Farhadi made the move to Cannes with 2013’s The Past (Bérénice Bejo...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interviews With The “LifeHack” Cast & Director
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“LifeHack” is a 2025 British screenlife action thriller film directed by Ronan Corrigan, starring Georgie Farmer, Yasmin Finney, Roman Hayeck-Green, James Scholz, Jessica Reynolds, and Charlie Creed-Miles. It follows a group of friends who hack for fun, pranking online scammers....
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“GABIN”
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THE STORY – In northern France, Gabin, the youngest of the Jourdel family, finds himself destined to take over his father’s butcher shop. Тorn between family loyalty and a desire to break free, his dreams lie elsewhere: to train a contest...
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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’
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Post My Summer of Love (2004) and The Woman in the Fifth (2011), it’s with his fourth feature where Paweł Pawlikowski become someone to factor as a Croisette conversation whatever future output after showcasing Ida – it garnered 70 international...
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
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The Story of O: Schoenbrun Approaches the Horrific Desire Inside Us All The inextricable union of victim, victimizer, and witness becomes a metatextual balancing act in Jane Schoenbrun’s formidable third film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a gonzo...
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The Criterion Channel’s June Lineup Features Odysseys, Weddings, James Bond, and Brian Eno
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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is this summer’s l’objet de cinéma, the 70mm-sized monolith around which most else will have to orient. There are ways to be creative about it. One such case would be Odysseys, a seven-film series that features...
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“TANGLES”
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THE STORY – When Alzheimer’s begins to erase her mother’s vibrant personality, Sarah leaves her exciting life as an activist and artist in 90’s San Francisco to return to her eccentric family in the conservative small town she recently fled. Initially...
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Cannes Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Is a Joyful Addition to Jane Schoenbrun’s Box of Mysteries
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When asked about formative movie experiences, Jane Schoenbrun has spoken of the month spent watching all the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels at 11 years old. It’s tempting to say that the seeds of their latest movie, Teenage Sex and...
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