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‘Women Talking’ review: Writer/director Sarah Polley returns with a harrowing and hopeful chamber piece of the power and fortitude of women [A] | Telluride Review

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‘Women Talking’ review: Writer/director Sarah Polley returns with a harrowing and hopeful chamber piece of the power and fortitude of women [A] | Telluride Review

Ryan McQuade September 3, 2022

In a small colony, in an undisclosed location in the United States, lies a community of Mennonite-like religious conservatives living in a massive imbalance of... Read More

‘Bardo’ review: Inside a grand, spectacular vision, director Alejandro G. Iñárritu makes his most personal film to date [B+] | Telluride Film Festival

Ryan McQuade September 3, 2022

When we first find Silverio Gama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), renowned Mexican journalist turn successful documentarian, he is having a wild set of dreams. From floating... Read More

‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ review: Laura Poitras’ profound portrait of artist and activist Nan Goldin is one of year’s best films [A+] | Venice Film Festival

Roberto Ruggio September 3, 2022

Who is Nan Goldin? For people who are not photography enthusiasts, this name probably doesn’t sound familiar. I had personally never heard of her, so... Read More

‘Athena’ review: Romain Gavras explores a civil war at its most brutal, despairing and devastating [A-] |Venice Review

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‘Athena’ review: Romain Gavras explores a civil war at its most brutal, despairing and devastating [A-] |Venice Review

Roberto Ruggio September 2, 2022

What does it take to push a home, a city, a country into chaos? Is it an accumulation of injustice or can it just take... Read More

‘Un Couple’ review: Frederick Wiseman’s first ever ‘fictional’ film imbues Tolstoy in his strange, artful ode to a woman [B] | Venice Film Festival

Adam Solomons September 2, 2022

Un Couple has been described as legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s first fictional, feature-length film. In truth it is neither. The 64-minute series of monologues performed... Read More

‘Tár’ review: Maestra Cate Blanchett tears up the rulebook with her best work in years in Todd Field’s wildly entertaining and expressionistic return [A-] | Venice Film Festival

Adam Solomons September 1, 2022

Cate Blanchett has never been a bad actress, but she has rarely been this good. To say she “stars” in wildly entertaining, surprisingly funny drama... Read More

49th Telluride Film Festival lineup: World premieres of ‘Empire of Light,’ ‘Women Talking;’ tributes set for Cate Blanchett, Sarah Polley

Erik Anderson September 1, 2022

The Telluride Film Festival has revealed the lineup for their 49th edition, known as “The Show,” which will feature world premieres of Empire of Light... Read More

‘Love in the Villa’ review: Charming leads Kat Graham and Tom Hopper can’t save unfunny and cliché-ridden rom-com [D+]

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‘Love in the Villa’ review: Charming leads Kat Graham and Tom Hopper can’t save unfunny and cliché-ridden rom-com [D+]

Lauren Coates September 1, 2022

Amidst the hundred million-dollar limited series and relentless stream of middling action flicks, it seems that Netflix does, in fact, seem to still have time... Read More

‘White Noise’ review: Noah Baumbach’s 1980s family drama builds up steam and lets off a whimper [B] | Venice Film Festival

Adam Solomons August 31, 2022

Edgier and more expressionistic than anything we’ve seen from a director whose commercial sensibility can sometimes border on cautious, White Noise is a markedly ambitious,... Read More

Rian Johnson and Bob Ducsay to receive Variety Creative Arts Collaborators Award at Middleburg Film Festival

Erik Anderson August 31, 2022

Filmmaker Rian Johnson and his frequent collaborator, editor Bob Ducsay will receive the inaugural Variety Creative Collaborators Award, which will be presented at the Middleburg... Read More

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