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Shosana | 2023 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
September 14, 2023Winterbottom Cranks Yet Out Another One, This Time A Forgettable Thriller With No Bite Michael Winterbottom...
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Sisterhood (HLM Pussy) | 2023 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
September 11, 2023Nora El Hourch’s Fiery Sisterhood is La Haine for the #MeToo Generation Arriving like a molotov...
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Without Air | 2023 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
September 10, 2023A Teacher Fights For Her Job In Katalin Moldovai’s Simmering Indictment of Hungary’s Culture Wars Agnieszka...
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Hors-saison | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 9, 2023Lover Come Back: Romance Rekindles in Brizé’s Elegant Exploration of Regret The universal dilemma of romantic...
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Woman Of… | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 8, 2023Pieces of a Woman: Szumowska & Englert Compose Compassionate Portrait of Trans Woman “Testosterone is power,”...
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Lubo | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 8, 2023Children of a Lesser God: Diritti Highlights Swiss War Crimes in Prolonged Drama The actual history...
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Daaaaaali! | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 7, 2023Good Golly, It’s Dali: Dupieux Dreams Surreal in Distinctive Biopic It seems surrealism’s pioneer Salvador Dali...
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Holly | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 7, 2023The Girl with All the Gifts: Torch Tiptoes into Genre with Aloof Drama Belgian director Fien...
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The Summer With Carmen | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 7, 2023The Write Stuff: Life Becomes Art in Mavroeidis Sun Dappled Debut Hindsight is 20/20, especially when...
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Following the Sound | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 6, 2023Not in the Script: Sugita’s New Form of Companionship Takes on Heartaches and Heartbreaks Rewriting the...
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Enea | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 5, 2023Deal or No Deal: Castellitto Distracted by Design in Drug Pusher Drama Director Pietro Castellitto embarks...
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Green Border | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 5, 2023The Good Pole: Holland’s Humanitarian Drama a Steady Drizzle of Misery Porn The difference between an...
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The Palace | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 5, 2023It’s Only the End of the World: Polanski Checks Out with Broad Satire As many are...
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Evil Does Not Exist | Review
September 4, 2023The Killing of a Sacred Dear: Hamaguchi Explores Ills of Urbanization Ryūsuke Hamaguchi explores the doctrine...
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Making Of | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 4, 2023The Working Class Goes to the Back Lot: Kahn Prosaically Processes a Director’s Strife What should...
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Love Is a Gun | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 4, 2023Lucky Number Seven: The Grabbing Hands Grab All They Can in Lee Hong-Chi’s Debut Working as...
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Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 3, 2023Sentimental Succubus: Louis-Seize Finds Love is All Consuming in Vampire Rom-Com “Love means never having to...
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Vermines | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 3, 2023The Spider’s Stratagem: Vanicek Weaves Familiar Web with Debut Creature Feature Creature features have an odd...
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Le Vourdalak | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 3, 2023Love in the Blood: Beau Resurrects Russian Vampire Clan in Eccentric Genre Throwback Chuck Palahniuk wrote...
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The Universal Theory (Die Theorie Von Allem) | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 3, 2023Multiverse of Sadness: Kroger Captivates with Cryptic Cold War Sci-Fi Exploit Although it will invariably be...
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Adagio | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 2, 2023Rome, Smoking City: Sollima Languorous Thriller Tiresomely Tests Narrative Cliches The most apropos element of Stefano...
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Sobre todo la noche (Foremost the Night) | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 2, 2023Other Mothers: Iriarte’s Debut a Murky Mix of Neo Noir and Melodrama For his film debut...
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Interviews
Interview: Jennifer Reeder – Perpetrator
September 2, 2023With an output of three feature films in just four years and several short films in-between,...
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Foreign Film News
Exclusive: Céline Rouzet’s Clips for En attendant la nuit (For Night Will Come)- 2023 Venice Film Festival
September 2, 2023Among the four (at last count) vampire-related titles to surface on the Lido this year we...
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Hoard | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 2, 2023M is for the Many Things You Gave Me: Grief Becomes the Remedy in Carmoon’s Debut...
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Finalmente L’Alba (Finally Dawn) | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 1, 2023Cruel Intentions: Costanzo Pays Homage to the Demi-Monde of the Italian Film Industry After adapting Elena...
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Sidonie au Japon | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 1, 2023Second Chance Romance: Girard Haunts Huppert in Erstwhile Ghost Story Isabelle Huppert conjoins two of her...
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Foreign Film News
Exclusive Poster: Pondering the Future in Nehir Tuna’s “Dormitory”
September 1, 2023Selected as a competition offering in the Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section, Nehir Tuna‘s lands a...
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Bastarden (The Promised Land) | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 1, 2023The Good Earth: Arcel Inherits the Wind with Romanticized Historical Recuperation After making his English language...
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L’ordine del tempo | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
August 30, 2023Time After Time: Cavani Commits Time Crimes in Overwrought Farce What does time mean when we’re...
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Comandante | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
August 30, 2023And the Sea Will Tell: De Angelis Sells the Soft Side of Fascism Napolitano director Edoardo...
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Foreign Film News
Exclusive: Clip for Andrés Peyrot’s God is a Woman – 2023 Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week
August 29, 2023Tomorrow the Venice International Film Festival sets its sails on its 80th edition and among the...
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Foreign Film News
Exclusive: Clips for Héléna Klotz’s Spirit of Ecstasy – 2023 TIFF Platform Programme
August 28, 2023Among the ten competition films selected for TIFF’s prestige Platform programme, Héléna Klotz makes her long-awaited...
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Film Festivals
2023 San Sebastián: Xavier Legrand, Isabella Eklöf, Kitty Green & Christos Nikou Added to Comp
August 25, 2023Two surprise world premieres (highly anticipated sophomore features) are part of the last batch of competition...
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FYC
2024 Oscars: Felipe Gálvez’ “The Settlers” is Chile’s Nomination for Best International Film
August 24, 2023Canada announced Zaynê Akyol‘s Rokej, Germany announced Ilker Çatak‘s The Teachers Lounge (a future SPC release)...
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Foreign Film News
Nothing for Nathan: Producer Saïd Ben Saïd Reteams with Paul Verhoeven for “Sans compter”
August 23, 2023French film producer Saïd Ben Saïd sort of resurrected the career of Paul Verhoeven with the...
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Interviews
Interview: Ellie Foumbi & Joe Mastantuono – Our Father, the Devil
August 22, 2023Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father, the Devil (Mon Père, le Diable) is an exceptionally haunting, masterful film....
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Reviews
Piaffe | Review
August 21, 2023Horse Girl: Oren Gets Hot to Trot in Strange, Alluring Debut What is it about horses,...
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FYC
2024 Oscars: Anna Hints’ “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” is Estonia’s Nomination for Best International Film
August 18, 2023The first docu to throw their hat into the derby, the Sundance break-out hit Smoke Sauna...
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Film Festivals
2023 NYFF: Trân Anh Hùng, Garth Davis, Hayao Miyazaki, Harmony Korine & Steve McQueen in Spotlight Section
August 17, 2023Last year’s Spotlight Section managed to nab pair of highly sought-after titles in Bones and All...
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Film Festivals
2023 NYFF: Bradley Cooper’s Maestro Selected as Spotlight Gala
August 16, 2023To premiere on the Lido (Saturday, September 2nd) smack dab when Telluride is up and running,...
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Foreign Film News
I Dig Your Eyes: Big World Pictures Arrests Giacomo Abbruzzese’s “Disco Boy”
August 15, 2023Finally, it is Big World Pictures that have landed one of the best films from the...
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Reviews
Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation | Review
August 14, 2023Death in the Garden: Chebbi Debuts Eerie, Nuanced Murder Mystery In a supremely frightening sense, the...
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Film Festivals
2023 TIFF: Radu Jude, Denis Côté, Kleber Mendonça Filho & Phạm Thiên An Cement Wavelengths
August 11, 2023And now we can officially state that the TIFF selections are now complete with the Wavelengths...
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Love Life | Review
August 11, 2023Love the One You’re With: Fukada Explores Love and Death as Unhappy Accidents The instability of...