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May 12, 2018 — An urgent dispatch from the conflict in eastern Ukraine is winning plaudits from critics.
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May 12, 2018 — The nineties-era love story returns the French director to critical favor.
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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 10, 2018 — The underground scene of Leningrad in the early 80s is the real star here.
In Theaters
May 10, 2018 — Repertory Picks On Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, Ronald Neame’s globe-trotting 1980 film Hopscotch will pop up in Minneapolis for several screenings at the Trylon Cinema, as part of a ten-film series celebrating the careers—both joint and solo—of real-life best friends...
On the Channel
May 10, 2018 — A new series on the Criterion Channel looks back at the political turmoil that brought down the 1968 Cannes Film Festival.
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May 9, 2018 — “One of the best Welles documentaries” makes the case for the director as a brilliant graphic artist.
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May 9, 2018 — The first film from Kenya in Cannes’s Official Selection has already been banned at home.
May 9, 2018 — In this followup to Embrace of the Serpent, a mob story is interwoven with Wayúu Native American rituals.
Visual Analysis
May 9, 2018 — Under the Influence In 1988, David Simon was a journalist shadowing detectives at the Baltimore Police Department for his first book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. On midnight shifts, one of the sergeants would regularly screen movies for his squad,...