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The Bend in the River Review: Aching For What Was and May Never Come Again
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Telluride coverage. Th…
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Black Zombie Trailer Digs Up the Unsettling Origins of a Horror Staple
A selection at SXSW Film Festival 2026, Hot Docs 2026, Fantasia International Film Fe…
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Locarno Review: Lê Bảo’s Entrancing Hearing Stimulates the Senses
Lê Bảo’s Hearing opens in the drunk cacophony of a bar somewhere in Saigon, but …
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The End of Oak Street Review: David Robert Mitchell Makes Fun, Forgettable Return
The End of Oak Street opens with a rollicking gusto, Michael Giacchino’s assured hea…
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Léa Seydoux’s Life Unravels in First Trailer for Marie Kreutzer’s Gentle Monster
Following up Corsage , Marie Kreutzer returned this year with her Cannes premiere Gen…
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Between the Narrative and the Physical Reality of the Image: Rob Tregenza on Fast
When, a few years ago, I agreed to interview the filmmaker Rob Tregenza on the eve of…
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Josephine Trailer: Sundance Grand Jury and Audience Award Winner Arrives This November
After winning both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance earlier this y…
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Locarno Review: Denis Côté’s Nobody’s Violence Is an Astonishingly Alive Thriller
In 2006, Denis Côté was diagnosed with a degenerative kidney disease; in 2022, around…
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Paper Tiger Trailer: Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson Enter James Gray’s Criminal World
Between its Cannes premiere this May and North American debut at NYFF next month, Ja…
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Locarno Review: I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming Charts an Oddly Mute Queer Romance in Wartime Ukraine
It is late at night and Kiev is fast asleep when Isabelle Stever’s I Rarely Wake Up D…
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