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‘Summer Camp’ Review: Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard in a Would-Be Romp Full of Strained Teachable Moments
Set during a reunion for boomers, writer-director Castille Landon’s comedy also stars Eugene Levy and Dennis Haysbert.
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‘Young Woman and the Sea’ Review: Daisy Ridley in Paint-by-Numbers Inspirational Biopic
The 'Star Wars' and 'Magpie' actress faces the seas in Joachim Ronning's portrait of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
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‘Black Dog’ Review: Man Bites Dog, Becomes His Best Friend in Gorgeously Offbeat Canine Caper From China
Director Guan Hu ('The Eight Hundred,' 'Mr. Six') won the top prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar for his darkly comic thriller starring Canadian-Taiwanese actor Eddie Peng.
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‘Faye’ Review: HBO’s Faye Dunaway Doc Is a Revealing Portrait of the Complicated Woman Behind the Screen Icon
Director Laurent Bouzereau takes in the Oscar winner’s career highs and lows, her personal life, her bipolar disorder and her “difficult” reputation.
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‘Universal Language’ Review: An Amusingly Offbeat Homage To Iranian Cinema, by Way of Winnipeg
The second feature by Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin ('The Twentieth Century') won the first-ever Directors’ Fortnight audience award in Cannes.
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A Trans Drug Kingpin, Masturbating Zombies and Emma Stone: THR’s Critics Pick the 20 Best Films of Cannes 2024
A Danish drama about an unwanted pregnancy, a portrait of two nurses chasing romance in Mumbai and a Corsican mafia thriller are among other standouts from the world's pre-eminent film festival.
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‘Flow’ Review: An Enchanting Eco-Fable About Community That Makes Artisanal Magic Out of 3D Animation
Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis’ second feature tails a cat that bands together with other animals on a survival journey following a cataclysmic flood.
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‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’ Review: Michel Hazanavicius’ Mawkish Animated Holocaust Fable
The French Oscar winner ('The Artist') premiered his latest, about a Jewish baby abandoned in the woods during World War II, in the main Cannes competition.
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‘Santosh’ Review: Two Women Form an Unlikely Alliance in a Gripping Indian Police Procedural
In Sandhya Suri’s narrative feature debut, a widow and a notorious police inspector try to solve the gruesome murder of a teenager.
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‘The Great Lillian Hall’ Review: Jessica Lange Is Superb as an Actress With Early Dementia in a Lovely Valentine to Theater
Kathy Bates, Pierce Brosnan, Jesse Williams and Lily Rabe also star in the HBO film, directed by Michael Cristofer.
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‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Review: Mohammad Rasoulof’s Powerful Indictment of Iranian Oppression Through the Eyes of One Unraveling Family
The writer-director ('There Is No Evil'), who fled Iran after receiving an eight-year prison sentence, unveiled his new film in Cannes’ main competition.
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‘Atlas’ Review: Jennifer Lopez and Simu Liu in Another Netflix Movie Made to Half-Watch While Doing Laundry
The star plays a data analyst forced to team up with an AI robot in order to prevent an apocalypse orchestrated by a different AI robot in Brad Peyton's film co-starring Sterling K. Brown.
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‘Beating Hearts’ Review: Love Conquers All, Including Good Taste, in Overwrought French Crime Romance Starring Adèle Exarchopoulos
French actor turned director Gilles Lellouche’s sophomore effort also features François Civil and Vincent Lacoste.
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‘All We Imagine as Light’ Review: A Moving and Luminous Chronicle of Two Women Searching for Connection in Mumbai
Payal Kapadia’s competition entry stars Kani Kusruti and Divya Prabha as a pair of nurses who've settled in India’s largest city.
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‘The Village Next to Paradise’ Review: Somali Family Drama Doubles as a Potent Portrait of Life in the Shadow of War
In his Cannes-history-making feature, Somali filmmaker Mo Harawe portrays an ambitious family living under the threat of drone strikes and death.
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‘Filmlovers!’ Review: Arnaud Desplechin’s Eloquent Hybrid Doc Celebrates the Audience Part of the Movie Equation
Through narrative vignettes and nonfiction musings, and with a cast that includes Mathieu Amalric and ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ star Milo Machado-Graner, the French director explores the experience of watching movies.
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