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May 13, 2018 — It was decades ago, during one of the bitterest Montreal winters of his youth, that the acclaimed author and essayist Adam Gopnik had one of the experiences that made him a cinephile for life. The movie theater right down the street from...
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May 13, 2018 — Critics may differ on Jia’s sprawling gangster movie, but all agree that Zhao Tao is outstanding.
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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 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 12, 2018 — Critics are split over this Egyptian road movie, the only debut feature in competition.
May 10, 2018 — What goes into staging the perfect on-screen kiss? Director Sofia Coppola and actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett look back on shooting a passionate make-out session in The Virgin Suicides.
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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...