All Reviews articles – Page 2
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Reviews‘Coward’ review: Two Belgian soldiers are drawn together amid the horrors of war in Lukas Dhont’s intimate queer drama
Newcomers Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne drive Dhont’s First World War Cannes Competition title
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Reviews‘The End Of It’ review: Striking future-set study of mortality hangs on a layered performance from Rebecca Hall
Maria Martinez Bayona’s Cannes Premiere title also stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Noomi Rapace and Beanie Feldstein.
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Reviews‘La Bola Negra’ review: Penelope Cruz and Guitarricadelafuente star in sprawling exploration of Spain’s queer culture
The works of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca inform Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s Cannes Competition title
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Reviews‘Roma Elastica’ review: Marion Cotillard anchors fractured, excessive Italian 1980s drama
Bertrand Mandico’s Cannes Midnight title also stars Noemie Merlant and Isabella Ferrari
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Reviews‘Victorian Psycho’ review: Maika Monroe is gloriously gonzo in fun, feminist 19th-century horror
Jason Isaacs, Ruth Wilson and Thomasin McKenzie also star in Zachary Wigon’s intense Cannes Un Certain Regard title
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Reviews‘Elephants In The Fog’ review: Sensitive, stirring debut is set at the heart of Nepal’s transgender community
Screenwriter and short filmmaker Abinash Bikram Shah’s engaging first feature bows in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘9 Temples To Heaven’ review: A poignant family road trip across contemporary Thailand produced by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title balances ritual, memory and familial tensions with a light touch
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Reviews‘I’ll Be Gone In June’ review: A German exchange student navigates post-9/11 America in modest, engaging debut
Katharina Rivilis’s Cannes Un Certain Regard title is produced by Wim Wenders
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Reviews‘Yesterday The Eye Didn’t Sleep’ review: Poetic, slow-burn debut unfolds within a Bedouin community in Lebanon
Palestinian director Rayakan Mayasi’s first feature premieres in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘Orange-Flavoured Wedding’ review: Adele Exarchopoulos leads Christophe Honore’s propulsive, poignant 1970s ensemble drama
Honore’s latest work also stars Vincent Lacoste and Paul Kircher
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Reviews‘The Man I Love’ review: A powerful Rami Malek drives Ira Sachs’s compelling, opaque queer drama
Sachs’s Cannes Competition title plays out in 1980s New York City
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Reviews‘A Man Of His Time’ review: A superb Swann Arlaud powers Emmanuel Marre’s ambitious, overlong Vichy France drama
The Cannes Competition title follows real-life opportunist Henri Marre as he seeks to make a mark in 1940s France
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Reviews‘Red Rocks’ review: Bruno Dumont assembles a charming young cast for his beguiling childhood fantasy
Dumon’s distinctive, accessible new feature bows in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
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Reviews‘Diamond’ review: Andy Garcia directs and stars as a noirish detective in disappointingly superficial LA story
Rosemarie Dewitt, Brendan Fraser, Vicky Krieps, Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman also appear in Garcia’s second directorial feature
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Reviews‘Death Has No Master’ review: Asia Argento finds herself adrift in heady, uneven Venezuelan drama
Jorge Thielen Armand’s hallucinatory thriller premieres in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
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Reviews‘Goodbye Cruel World’ review: ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ star Milo Machado-Graner shines in dreamlike Cannes Critics’ Week closer
Actor-turned-filmmaker Felix de Givry’s debut follows a bullied teenager who vanishes from his provincial town
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Reviews‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’ review: Clio Barnard’s Birmingham friendship drama builds on its strong performances
The ‘Ali & Ava’ director’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title stars Joe Cole, Lola Petticrew and an excellent UK cast
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Reviews‘Low Expectations’ review: Understated Norwegian depression drama stars singer Marie Ulven
Ulven, aka Girl in Red, impresses in Eivind Landsvik’s debut of burnout and recovery
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Reviews‘The Samurai And The Prisoner’ review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s handsome Japanese period drama is a staid siege mystery
Kurosawa’s Cannes Premiere title lacks the action of his previous pictures
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Reviews‘Six Months In A Pink And Blue Building’ review: Intimate, precise portrait of childhood, memory and sexuality in Mexico City
Bruno Santamaría Razo’s Cannes Critics Week title effectively blends documentary and fiction