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Time and Water Review: Mourning The Death of Iceland’s Glaciers and Much, Much More
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The…
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Renoir Review: A Gradually Rewarding Coming-of-Age Story
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The f…
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Pressure Review: Earnest, Engaging D-Day Thriller Hinges on the Storm Report
Can you make an engaging film about predicting the weather? Pressure , directed by An…
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The Last Viking Review: an Ode to Oddballs, Mads Mikkelsen, and the Beatles
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. The f…
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Power Ballad Review: Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas Strike a Chord
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 SXSW coverage. The fil…
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The Best Films of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival
The 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has now concluded, with Cristian Mungiu’…
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Cannes Review: Radu Jude’s Diary of a Chambermaid Is a Humurous, Slight Meta Take on Mirbeau
Radu Jude has been rolling through features since his international breakout Aferim! …
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Cannes Review: With Coward, Lukas Dhont Sets Queer Love Story In Trenches of WWI
Cinema has taken viewers to the trenches of World War I so often that audiences might…
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Cannes Review: La Bola Negra Feels Like an Epic, Long-Lost Novel
If 19th- and 20th-century storytelling was defined by grandiose literature, the 2…
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Cannes Review: La Gradiva Is a Remarkable Debut of Extraordinary Sensitivity
Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva —winner of the Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize—begins …
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