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Toronto 2025 Review: CHRISTY, Sydney Sweeney Shines in Standard Sports Biopic
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Sydney Sweeney stars as boxer Christy Martin in David Michôd's sports biopic. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Toronto 2025 Review: HEN, The Chicken Comes First
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A parable of corruption in Greece as told through the ingenuity and survival instincts of a chicken, it says something when the most normal film in a director’s filmography is an endurance thriller told entirely from the point of view...
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Toronto 2025 Review: TRAIN DREAMS, Where the New World Is an Old Place
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Nature is vast and indifferent. It is often cruel. And yet the sunrises and the sunsets are glorious, any life is extraordinary, and regardless of the time, place or circumstances of one’s birth, there are unfathomable wonders intermingled with pain...
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BANG BANG Review: Still Combative, Even in Retirement
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Tim Blake Nelson stars in director Vincent Grashaw's punchy drama. Andrew Liner, Daniel Durant, and Jordan Gelber also star. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA INFINITY CASTLE Review: And You Thought Darth Vader Was Evil
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Directed by Haruo Sotozaki, the first installment in an animated trilogy is often dizzying, yet more often simply dazzling. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Beyond Fest 2025: Park Chan-wook’s NO OTHER CHOICE and Lanthimos’s BUGONIA Will Bookend an Incredible Program
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Look, we know that L.A. has had a fuck-off kind of year, but, jokingly now, fuck off. We have been going through this massive announcement for this year’s lineup at Beyond Fest and if watching movies makes up for all...
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Toronto 2025 Review: AMOEBA, Coming of Age with Ghosts and Gods
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Most cultures, both past and current have some sort of rite of passage, some ritual, for those of the age we call teenagers. Perhaps it's not as formal as it was in years passed, since those teenage times tend to...
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Toronto 2025 Interview: Shu Qi Talks GIRL, Finding a Film Grammar for Girlhood, and What’s Next
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Hong Kong-Taiwanese legend Shu Qi discusses her directorial debut. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Venice 2025 Review: FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER Finds Jim Jarmusch Up to His Old Tricks
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The auteur revisits tropes from decades ago, leaving the ensemble cast little to work with. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Toronto 2025 Review: THE TALE OF SILYAN, A Miracle of Filmmaking
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The myth that I have always associated with storks is that of them delivering babies via the chimneys of Europeans. I remember vividly the first time I drove through the Romanian countryside and saw a nest on every post, and...
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