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SEEKING MAVIS BEACON
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(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out  Bears Rebecca Fonté’s movie review of Seeking Mavis Beacon. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) As a member of Generation X, I’m used to a lot of firsts....
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Teyana Taylor, Alana Haim, Wood Harris & More Join Paul Thomas Anderson’s Next Feature
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With production beginning in Northern California for Paul Thomas Anderson’s next feature, the casting announcements are finally starting to flow in. After Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, and Sean Penn were announced, we learned this week that newcomer Chase Infiniti is...
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Maika Monroe Hunts Nicolas Cage in First Teaser for Oz Perkins’ Longlegs
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In an era of marketing where most studios just drop a full-length trailer on YouTube and in theaters, hoping viewers will be impressed enough to buy tickets even though they’ve often already unveiled the best parts, the distributors that go...
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Posterized February 2024: Drive-Away Dolls, How to Have Sex, The Taste of Things & More
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A lot of generic posters are hitting theater walls this month. That doesn’t mean I still didn’t almost put Argylle (February 2) below just because I cannot believe no one told them their teaser looked like a Minion that ate...
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A Conversation with Simon Rex, Talia Ryder, Earl Cave, Nick Pinkerton & Sean Price Williams (THE SWEET EAST)
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The Sweet East was written by Nick Pinkerton and directed by Sean Price Williams. The film stars Talia Ryder, Simon Rex, Jacob Elordi, Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy O. Harris, Earl Cave and Rish Shah. The film follows Lillian (Talia Ryder) as...
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Skin Deep
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Leyla (Mala Emde) and Tristen (Jonas Dassler) are a couple in crisis. Leyla is dealing with depression and a disinterest in engaging with the world around her. Around others, she’s subdued and has since stopped working. The image of Leyla...
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Argylle Review: An Ugly, Exhausting Stale Corpse of a Blockbuster
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It takes a very specific kind of brain trust to craft something as uniquely baffling as Argylle. If you’ve been to a multiplex in the last 7 or 8 months, you’ve likely borne witness to its obnoxious trailer. If you...
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Rotterdam Review: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Shadow of Fire Examines the Scars of War with Harrowing Restraint
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Shinya Tsukamoto’s Shadow of Fire begins as a troubling but measured film, but about a half-hour in something happens that shatters its quietude. Suddenly, a man who to this point has been impotent and deferential throws a small boy out...
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Rotterdam Review: Creature Horror The Soul Eater Offers Anachronistic Genre Thrills
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You don’t need to have lived in the proverbial middle of nowhere to understand the kind of terror Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s The Soul Eater mines from the fictional Roquenoix. As shot by Simon Roca, this remote hamlet in...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Luis Buñuel, Nicholas Ray, SAPPH-O-RAMA & More
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtA massive run of Luis Buñuel’s Mexican films begins; “To Save and Project,” continues. Film at Lincoln Center“Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 1970s” brings films by Tati,...
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