‘Magellan’ Review: Gael Garcia Bernal Plays the Famous Explorer in Lav Diaz’s Exquisitely Shot Challenge of an Arthouse Epic
The 160-minute feature depicts the decade of devastation wreaked by European conquistadors in the Pacific...
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‘The Disappearance of Josef Mengele’ Review: An Artfully Directed, Intellectually Vacuous Holocaust-Ploitation Flick
The new feature from Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov ('Leto') follows the infamous Nazi doctor during the decades he spent evading
Jordan Mintzer
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‘Splitsville’ Review: Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona in a Winning Indie Comedy That Puts Two Divorcing Couples Through the Wringer
Director Michael Angelo Covino and co-writer/star Kyle Marvin return to Cannes after their feature debut 'The Climb' premiered on the
Jordan Mintzer
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‘Living the Land (Sheng Xi Zhi Di)’ 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
Jordan Mintzer
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‘The Things You Kill’ Review: A Slow-Burn Turkish Drama That Gets Weirder, and Deadlier, as the Plot Thickens
Premiering at Sundance, the latest feature from Iranian-American director Alireza Khatami ('Terrestrial Verses') follows a college professor whose private life
Jordan Mintzer
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Critic’s Appreciation: David Lynch, a Visionary Director Who Spoke to Our Darker Selves
Laying bare American life's hidden horrors and absurdities, the auteur behind 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Twin Peaks' held up a distorted
Jordan Mintzer
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‘Slingshot’ Review: Casey Affleck Stars as an Astronaut Whose Mind Plays Tricks on Him in Serviceable Space Thriller
Laurence Fishburne and Emily Beecham co-star in director Mikael Håfström’s story of three spacemen on a dangerous mission to the
