No fun: boredom predominates in Bong Joon Ho‘s Mickey 17, for the characters and the audience alike ...

Vincent (Jean-Baptiste Durand): Martine’s hot-tempered son and a childhood friend of Jérémie’s. Walter (David Ayala): A ...

Locally sourced: this year’s edition of the True/False Film Festival was a haven for principled cinephilia, with highlights ...

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An example: a brilliant Brazilian director and friend, João Jardim, made a beautiful documentary in 2001 called Window of the Soul that he brought to me for the mix. The first scene is a close-up of a ...

For the New Woman, a new melodrama: Coming Home instead of Written on the Wind. David Ehrenstein examines this hip, old-fashioned genre. By David Ehrenstein in the September-October 1978 Issue The ...

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A year after delivering, in Beast, one of the few recent portrayals deserving of the term “fearless,” Jessie Buckley ecstatically announces herself as neither an actress who can carry a tune nor a ...