In the Mood for Love & Death: Bonello Explores the Final Frontier of Emotional Intelligence Throughout the dizzying centuries-spanning odyssey of an unrequited love in BERTRAND BONELLO’s f...
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A Tree Grows in England: Loach Loses Steam in Klutzy Refugee Drama There’s no doubt KEN LOACH is one of the most prominent social-realist directors of his time, navigating the plight of po...
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Bad Luck Banging: Luck is a Fickle Mistress in Allen’s Amusing Gallic Debut For his fiftieth (and rumored to be last) film, WOODY ALLEN’s French language debut, COUP DE CHANCE (Stroke of...
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The Passionate Thief: Rohrwacher Finds Treasures Under the Tuscan Sun “The sun is following us,” whispers a willowy blonde in the enigmatic opening moments of ALICE ROHRWACHER’s fourt...
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All Dogs Go to Heaven: Besson Gets Bombastic with Retro Pulp The suspension of disbelief required to enjoyably settle into LUC BESSON’s latest film, DOGMAN, is significant, a B-movie screa...
Angel Heart: Sauvaire Serves Savior Complex in EMS Thriller “It’s easier with wings than without,” was the tagline for Wim Wenders’ 1987 film Wings of Desire, which could easily have...
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Desert Fury: Sen Gets Bleak in the Heat of a Cold Case Mystery Despite it being the title of innumerable films from around the world, LIMBO happens to feel like the most felicitous descripti...
The Polite Stuff: Lu Searches for Redemption Through the Walking & Talking Cure In the strangely alluring THE SHADOWLESS TOWER, (Bai Ta Zhi Guang) the fourteenth feature from Korean-Chinese...
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The Prime of Miss Jean Foodie: Hausner Satirizes Cult Behavior Through Caloric Deficit Expanding on the genre sentiments which guided her past titles HOTEL (2004) and LITTLE JOE (2018), Aust...
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Into the Woods: Lesage Explores Wounded Masculinities In Vincent Sherman’s 1943 Bette Davis-led melodrama Old Acquaintance, the complex relationship between a pair of female frenemies beco...
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