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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother | Review
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Holy War: Mahershala Ali Unleashes Fatherly Vengeance Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is an ambitiously rich, arthouse flavored action film that marks a step up for filmmaker Bassam Tariq and is easily Mahershala Ali’s best role and performance since...
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The Debut | 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
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A Star Is Reborn: Julianne Moore Powers Jesse Eisenberg’s Latest With Peanuts & Monkey Blood Dreams of stardom can strike like lightning at any time. It’s not just a curse reserved for the young and naive. In Jesse Eisenberg’s mashup...
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Children of the Monkey (I figli della scimmia) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
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The Favorited Son: Landucci Looks at How Love Can Tear Us Apart While it never explicitly dwells on the feeling that the film’s patriarch may have been dealt the ultimate short end of the stick, Tommaso Landucci’s fiction debut is...
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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother | 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
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Holy War: Mahershala Ali Unleashes Fatherly Vengeance Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is an ambitiously rich, arthouse flavored action film that marks a step up for filmmaker Bassam Tariq and is easily Mahershala Ali’s best role and performance since...
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Back to Buenos Aires | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
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The Doctor and the Devils: Bechis Explores the Agony of Atonement The title for Argentinian director Marco Bechis’ latest title, Back to Buenos Aires, is apt in several ways. A return to his native country after fifty-five years, Bechis utilizes...
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A Bit of Light | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
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Under the Cherry Moon: Asgari Lets the Sun Shine In Ali Asgari continues to highlight the precariousness of navigating modern day Tehran with his latest feature, A Bit of Light, which speaks directly to citizens living day-to-day with the threat...
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One Minute to Midnight (Un peu avant minuit) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
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The Man Who Snubbed Women: Pariser Performs a Patriarchal Audit There’s something that feels a bit ‘too little, too late’ in Nicolas Pariser’s latest film Un peu avant minuit (One Minute to Midnight), reuniting him with Melvil Poupaud, the star...
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NAZA | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
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Destroy Everything You Touch: Abraham & Szor Explore the Cogs of the Palestinian Genocide Investigative journalists and documentarians Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham follow up their Academy Award winning 2024 debut No Other Land with an exploration of the ongoing...
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The Fire Within You (Il fuoco che ti porti dentro) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
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The Shrill Seekers: De Angelis Turns to Comedic Caricature For his latest venture, The Fire Within You, Edoardo De Angelis seems to be employing the idiom, ‘you can take the Napolitano out of Naples but you can’t take Naples out...
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A Good Little Soldier (Un bon petit soldat) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
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A HR Manager Never Cries: Brize Takes on Executive Hypocrisy When he’s not exploring intimate relationship melodramas, French director Stéphane Brizé has been one of the most prominent contemporary voices exploring toxic workplace scenarios of late stage capitalism and the...
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