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The Shrouds review – David Cronenberg gets wrapped up in grief

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Cannes film festival Elaborate necrophiliac meditation on loss and longing stars Vincent Cassel as an oncologist who has founded a restaurant with a hi-tech cemetery attached

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‘Ernest Cole, Lost And Found’ Review: Raoul Peck Chronicles The Life And Work Of South African Unsung Hero Ernest Cole – Cannes Film Festival

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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, directed and written by Raoul Peck and narrated by Lakeith Stanfield, invites us into the life and voice of one of South Africa’s influential yet unsung heroes of photojournalism and activism. Through words and…

‘Death Becomes Her’ Review: Promising Pre-Broadway Musical Makes for a Campy Improvement on the Cult Film

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A more-than-respectable entry in the endless parade of movies-to-musicals, this genuinely funny, effervescently performed pre-Broadway take on the 1992 Robert Zemeckis dark comedy “Death Becomes Her” has a better, and more sympathetic,…

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NIGHTMARE IN WAX Reviews and free on Plex and Tubi

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‘Frozen into zombies… doomed to unbearable horrors!’ Nightmare in Wax is a 1969 horror film directed by Bud Townsend (Terror at Red Wolf Inn) from a screenplay by Rex Carlton …

‘The Kingdom’ Review: A Confident Debut Worthy of History’s Great Mob Films

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Cannes 2024: Filmmaker Julien Colonna and breakout newcomer Ghjuvanna Benedetti have a bright future in Hollywood

Demi Moore, 61, says full-frontal nudity scenes in The Substance were easier to perform with co-star Margaret Qualley, 29, as she made her feel 'very safe' - amid rave reviews at Cannes for new film

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Demi Moore has revealed her shock full frontal nudity scenes in acclaimed new film The Substance were easier to perform with co-star Margaret Qualley by her side.

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis bad reviews truth bomb

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Francis Ford Coppola hasn’t heard a bad review yet at Cannes for Megalopolis, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Though it was the talk of the town at Cannes and received a 10-minute standing ovation, the Coppola-financed film…

The Apprentice review – cartoon version of chump-in-chief Donald Trump’s early years

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Cannes film festival Ali Abbasi’s film presents young Donald as an amoral narcissist, wastes the talent of Jeremy Strong and includes a grisly rape scene that is quickly glossed over

‘The Apprentice’ Review: Donald Trump Movie Starring Sebastian Stan Plays Like a Tragic Frankenstein Tale

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Cannes 2024: With Stan as a young Trump and Jeremy Strong as lawyer Roy Cohn, the film is amusing at times and disturbing at others

‘The Apprentice’ Review: Sebastian Stan And Jeremy Strong Soar As Young Donald Trump And His Ruthless Mentor Roy Cohn In Devilish Origin Story – Cannes Film Festival

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Don’t be confused about the title The Apprentice. This is not a movie version of the NBC reality TV series in any way, but instead a smart, sharp and surprising origin story of the man who hosted it. In this case the actual “apprentice” is…

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Turbo Movie: Review, Cast, Plot, Trailer, Release Date – All You Need To Know About Mammootty-Raj B Shetty’s Film

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Turbo is an action entertainer made by Vysakh of Pulimurugan and Pokkiriraja fame. The screenplay is written by Midhun Manuel Thomas whose Abraham Ozler featured Mammootty in an extended cameo.

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The Garfield Movie review: This cartoon cat’s bizarrely tragic origin story has to be seen to be believed

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The feline curmudgeon, voiced by an unsurprisingly miscast Chris Pratt, is here revealed to hate Mondays and love lasagne for sincere and sappy reasons, in a film that resembles little more than a charmless box-ticking exercise

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The Coffee Table Review

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A pitch black comedy horror movie and easily the most messed up film of the year which you will not easily forget.

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Sister Midnight at Cannes 2024: All You Need to Know About Radhika Apte's 'Vampire' FIlm That Has Got Rave Reviews From Its Premiere

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Radhika Apte's new film, Sister Midnight premiered at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, making it the only Indian film to get selected. Read everything about it here!

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Demi Moore, 61, stuns at The Substance photocall during return to Cannes Film Festival after 25 years - as the horror receives rave reviews and a 13-minute standing ovation

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Demi Moore's incredible 'third act' continued as she made a stunning appearance at the The Substance photocall during Cannes Film Festival on Monday morning.

Kevin Costner's Horizon epic slammed by critics on Rotten Tomatoes and receives scathing reviews despite 10 minute standing ovation at Cannes

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Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American Saga has been slammed by critics, despite earning a 10-minute standing ovation from the audience at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.

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Mongrel review – Zen-like tale of compassion and suffering among migrant care workers

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Cannes film festival Close attention is required for this sombre but impressive Taiwanese feature debut about exploited illegal staff, and their patients and gangmasters

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IF fans hit back at critics as John Krasinski’s Ryan Reynolds film gets damning Rotten Tomatoes score

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Movie was rated ‘Rotten’ on the popular review aggregator website

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Film Review: THE GARFIELD MOVIE (2024): Mark Dindal’s Animated Reboot Features a Wise-Cracking Chris Pratt but Skimps out on Plot Development

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The Garfield Movie (2024) Film Review, a movie directed by Mark Dindal, written by Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove and David Reynolds and starring Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong,…

The Garfield Movie review: Fun feline adventure that isn’t really a Garfield film

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Review of Garfield: The Movie, an animated film featuring the vocal talents of Chris Pratt and Samuel L. Jackson.