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‘Girls on Wire’ Review: A Sensitive but Unsteady Portrait of Chinese Generational Trauma and Sisterhood
In Vivian Qu's third feature, two estranged cousins confront old wounds after they are reunited under dangerous and dramatic circumstances.
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‘Cleaner’ Review: Daisy Ridley and Clive Owen Slum Through a Competent but Deja Vu-Drenched B-Movie
A window cleaner attempts to thwart the plans of terrorists while dangling outside a high-rise building in the new action-thriller.
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‘Olmo’ Review: Fernando Eimbcke’s Coming-of-Age Story Strikes a Winning Balance Between Melancholy and Gentle Farce
Set in 1979 New Mexico, the comic drama revolves around a teen boy’s attempt to juggle fun with serious family responsibilities.
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‘All I Had Was Nothingness’ Review: A Powerful Behind-the-Scenes Look at Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’
Director Guillaume Ribot revisited outtakes from the nine-hour Holocaust documentary to reveal how it was made and the toll it took on its creator.
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‘The Ice Tower’ Review: Marion Cotillard Toplines a Twisted French Fairytale That’s ‘Frozen’ Meets ‘Mulholland Drive’
The latest feature from French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic ('Earwig,' 'Evolution') follows an orphaned teenage girl who stumbles into a haunting real-world fable.
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‘Islands’ Review: Sam Riley and Stacy Martin in a Sun-Soaked Noir That Lets Its Tension Slacken in the Closing Stretch
Set around a luxury hotel in the Canary Islands, Jan-Ole Gerster’s drama follows a Brit tennis coach whose inertia is shaken up when he gets entangled with a guest after her husband goes missing.
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‘Reflection in a Dead Diamond’ Review: An Exquisite and Flashy Cinematic Jewel Box With Nothing Much Inside
The latest genre movie homage from French directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani follows a retired secret agent reminiscing about his action-packed past.
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‘Köln 75’ Review: John Magaro Hits the Right Notes in a Frustrating Music Drama That Marginalizes the Headliner
Mala Emde plays Vera Brandes, the 18-year-old music promoter without whom Keith Jarrett's celebrated piano recording, ‘The Köln Concert,’ might not have happened.
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‘Dreams’ Review: Jessica Chastain Is Chilling in Michel Franco’s Scalding Study of Love and Privilege
Mexican ballet dancer Isaac Hernández co-stars as an undocumented immigrant who pins his bid for permanency in the U.S. on his relationship with a wealthy San Francisco philanthropist.
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‘The Botanist’ Review: A Graceful Chinese Coming-of-Ager With Dreamy Images More Captivating Than the Story
First-time director Jing Yi sets his feature in the northern province of Xinjiang, in a remote community just across the border from Kazakhstan.
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‘Mickey 17’ Review: An Amusing Robert Pattinson Gamely Tackles a Double Role in Bong Joon Ho’s Scattershot Sci-Fi Follow-Up to ‘Parasite’
The actor plays a repeatedly reconstituted “expendable” in this dark comedy set in a nascent ice planet colony, also starring Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Colette and Mark Ruffalo.
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‘Ari’ Review: An Intensely Performed if Loose-Limbed Portrait of an Emotionally Unstable French Man Trying to Fix His Life
Director Léonor Serraille ('Mother and Son') worked with both seasoned and amateur actors in a partially improvised drama that explores the lives of wayward 20somethings.
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‘Hot Milk’ Review: Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw and Vicky Krieps in a Watery Psychological Drama Lacking in Texture
Screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes her directing debut adapting Deborah Levy’s novel about the prison of a strained mother-daughter relationship.
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‘Living the Land’ Review: A Richly Detailed, Novelistic Chronicle of Life in Early-’90s Rural China
Writer-director Huo Meng’s Berlin competition entry follows an extended family of farmers scraping by as their country gradually evolves into an industrial powerhouse.
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‘A Letter to David’ Review: An Israeli Filmmaker Considers the Fate of an Actor Turned Hostage in a Harrowing Film Essay
Nancy Spielberg (Steven Spielberg's sister) produced writer-director Tom Shoval's portrait of David Cunio, who starred in his 2013 film 'Youth' and was taken hostage on October 7th, 2023.
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‘Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2025: Live Action’ Review: A Mix of Issue-Driven Dramas That Mostly Favor Subject Matter Over Storytelling
The five films hail from Croatia, South Africa, India, the Netherlands and the U.S., tackling a multitude of hot-button topics currently plaguing the globe.
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