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Filmmaker Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme” opens with an exhilarating sequence that suggests his most ambitious film yet. It’s 1950,...
The screams from an audience watching “The Omen” in 1977 can be heard throughout the Cinema São Luiz in the...
CANNES – Let me be the first, perhaps second, possibly third critic to refer to Harry Lighton’s directorial debut, “Pillion,”...
CANNES – In the opening moments of “Bono: Stories of Surrender,” filmmaker Andrew Dominik’s black and white concert film about...
Taking a big creative swing as a public figure whose personal and professional life has been minutely scrutinized since childhood...
Self-consciously drawing attention to their own workings, the films of German director Christian Petzold have always displayed a degree of...
CANNES – There has to be something quietly reassuring about the world that a movie about a first-generation French Algerian...
CANNES – A musical inspired by the 2018 feminist protests in Chile that included many students, Sebastián Lelio’s fascinating and...
Writer/director Ari Aster has now spent his last two films explaining himself. One of the most divisive sequences in “Beau...
CANNES – Citizens arrested without justifiable cause. Enemies of the state are imprisoned with no chance of due process. An...
