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The Girl With the Needle | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Casa de los Babys: von Horn Hits a Bleak Streak You know you’re in for something dark and dreary when a film opens upon a character in a world where despair has coagulated into grim apathy. Such is the case...
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Cannes Review: The Girl with the Needle Finds Magnus von Horn Reinventing Himself as a Chronicler of the Macabre
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Almost a decade since his debut feature The Here After premiered at Directors’ Fortnight, Swedish director Magnus von Horn is finally in Cannes Competition with the black-and-white period film The Girl with the Needle. Previously there was Sweat––the Polish-language jab...
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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“The question is, do you have what it takes to make it epic,” says an undaunted Chris Hemsworth. It’s a call to action that comes toward the end of “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” George Miller’s apocalyptic epic western prequel...
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When The Light Breaks | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Grieving Rights: Runarsson Explores Interrupted Mourning For his fourth narrative feature, Iceland’s Rúnar Rúnarsson returns to themes of emotional disruption with When the Light Breaks. The film’s Icelandic title, Ljósbrot, roughly translates to ‘refraction of light,’ which is arguably a...
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Roger Corman’s Greatest Legacy Was Giving So Many People Their Big Break
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Roger Corman, who died last week at 98, was so important and influential that a thorough account of his impact would require a book (there have already been many – and documentaries, too). But the most impressive achievement of all is...
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Woman Thou Art Loosed: Miller Wades into the Wasteland In all likelihood, George Miller presumably will be closing out his filmography the same way it began, fleshing out the iconic dystopian desert world he created back in 1979 with Mad...
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Cannes Review: Wild Diamond Shines Bright, But Deprives Hyper-Femininity from Sensual Core
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From her debut feature, French filmmaker Agathe Riedinger wants a sparkling yet still-realistic account of the thorny relationship between youth and fame. Wild Diamond is the first film to screen in this year’s Cannes Official Competition and it owns it,...
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Babes Review: Pamela Adlon’s Directorial Debut is a Sweet and Raunchy Comedy about Pregnancy
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Transitioning the naturalistic comic sensibilities that made Better Things a success, Pamela Adlon’s feature debut Babes manages to co-opt the rhythms of a romantic comedy to explore the relationship between two best friends at opposite points of their lives. Eden...
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Live From Cannes!!! Meet the Jury For Our 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel
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Except for the pandemic year, we’ve hosted our bi-daily (sometimes tri-daily) Palme d’Or competition Cannes Critics’ Panel since 2011. Over the years, our panel has gained some steadfast members (a few have been with us since the inaugural edition), while...
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Donnie Yen’s Caine Gets His JOHN WICK Spinoff Next Year
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The John Wick spinoff is finally happening. Variety is reporting that Donnie Yen is all set to reprise his character, Caine, in the next spinoff from the original quad of films. You know what this means? Over two hours of...
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