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May 14, 2018 — A fable, a social critique, and a frontrunner for the top prize.
May 14, 2018 — In the singular world of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, auteurist homage and social consciousness are joined by some of the most lovingly filmed dogs in contemporary cinema.
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May 14, 2018 — Few critics come to the defense of this story of an all-female Kurdish combat unit.
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May 12, 2018 — The five-part essay film is “infused in equal measures by despair and aspiration.”
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May 10, 2018 — The followup to Mrs. Fang is an oral history of China’s “Anti-Rightist Campaign” in the late 1950s.
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May 9, 2018 — Cannes’s Opening Night film is met with a first round of lukewarm reviews.
May 8, 2018 — Horror movies are often understood as products of the imagination, but in the case of Caroline Monnet and Daniel Watchorn’s work, the conventions of the genre are grounded in stories of real-life injustice. Set in a Canadian residential school for...
Essays
May 8, 2018 — In his uncharacteristic final masterpiece, the great Hollywood melodramatist Frank Borzage approaches the shadowy violence of film noir with his unique brand of romanticism.
May 6, 2018 — Cannes 2018 One of the major highlights of the ongoing, year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ingmar Bergman will be the presentation of a 4K restoration of The Seventh Seal (1957) as part of this year’s...
May 6, 2018 — The filmmaker and consultant had an immeasurable impact on cinema for over half a century.