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The Daily
May 13, 2018 — Critics may differ on Jia’s sprawling gangster movie, but all agree that Zhao Tao is outstanding.
The Daily
May 12, 2018 — The five-part essay film is “infused in equal measures by despair and aspiration.”
The Daily
May 12, 2018 — An urgent dispatch from the conflict in eastern Ukraine is winning plaudits from critics.
The Daily
May 12, 2018 — Critics are split over this Egyptian road movie, the only debut feature in competition.
The Daily
May 10, 2018 — The followup to Mrs. Fang is an oral history of China’s “Anti-Rightist Campaign” in the late 1950s.
The Daily
May 10, 2018 — The underground scene of Leningrad in the early 80s is the real star here.
May 9, 2018 — In this followup to Embrace of the Serpent, a mob story is interwoven with Wayúu Native American rituals.
The Daily
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.