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‘Marcello Mio’ Review: Christophe Honoré’s Charming Comedy Boasts a Terrific Chiara Mastroianni

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Cannes 2024: With a delightful cast playing versions of themselves, this film is a funny look at acting, performance, and familial legacy

‘Ghost Cat Anzu’ Review: Innovation Meets Narrative Struggle In Animated Feature – Cannes Film Festival

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Ghost Cat Anzu is an intriguing conceptualization for an animated film, existing in a realm similar to Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away yet also standing as its antithesis. This French-Japanese co-production from Miyu Productions and Shin-Ei…

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Kevin Costner’s Horizon Part 1 brutally flamed in reviews out of Cannes

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Ouch! Kevin Costner’s new Horizon: An American Saga Part 1 is not sitting too kindly with critics after its Cannes premiere. Costner directed, starred in, produced, and helped finance the new Western epic, which will feature four films.…

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Review: BOY KILLS WORLD

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I was looking forward to Boy Kills World. The trailer looked like good fun with great action. Boy Kills World’s story is: A fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he…

‘Marcello Mio’ Review: Chiara Mastroianni & Catherine Deneuve Play Themselves In An Amusing Family Affair Like No Other – Cannes Film Festival

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Talk about an identity crisis! In a wonderfully funny and completely original comedy, French star Chiara Mastroianni in a bit of an existential crisis mode decides one day to morph into her very famous father, the late great Marcello…

‘Marcello Mio’ Review: Christophe Honoré’s Slight Meta-Movie Puts Chiara Mastroianni in the Spotlight

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Cannes: The daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni is at the center of the film, basically a very Fellini-esque episode of “Call My Agent!" stretched to feature length.

Anora review – stellar turn from Mikey Madison in sex work non-love story

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Cannes film festival Sean Baker’s tragicomedy features Madison as an escort betrayed by a bratty oligarch’s son who she marries in a film that offers a more realistic take than Pretty Woman

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‘Eephus’ Review: A Wry and Lovely Baseball Movie That Pitches Slowballs of Quiet Wisdom

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Yogi Berra, perhaps the greatest catcher in history, is quoted in Carson Lund’s “Eephus,” a movie about players who, unlike Berra, are never going to trouble the Baseball Hall of Fame’s induction committee. To homage so lofty a legend in…

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Kevin Costner’s Horizon may be ‘dull and incoherent’ – but bad reviews won’t stop Yellowstone fanboys

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At a time when westerns are out of vogue, the ‘Dances with Wolves’ star is daring to mount a four-film franchise in the genre. Its first instalment is getting torn apart by critics, writes Louis Chilton, but ‘Yellowstone’ has proved we…

‘Anora’ Review: Mikey Madison Gives Her All In Sean Baker’s Subversive Screwball Comedy – Cannes Film Festival

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Sean Baker’s previous film, 2022’s Red Rocket (2022), began with *NSYNC’s Spotify-topping “Bye Bye Bye,” but Anora starts with the slightly lesser-known “Greatest Days” by British boy band Take That. Musically, it’s a bold choice, at odds…

‘Anora’ Review: Sean Baker Whips Up a Wild Stripper Romance Thriller Comedy, or Something Like That

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Cannes 2024: The film swings wildly back and forth while also hanging onto its heart, and it's just too much fun to worry about how much Baker is cramming in

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review — Chris Hemsworth saves prequel from being a complete Waste[land]

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Chris Hemsworth being the best part of a film in 2024 was not on my bingo card. Anya Taylor-Joy may portray the title character in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, a prequel origin story for Charlize Theron’s character in Fury Road. But it’s…

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‘Furiosa’ Review: Summer Revs Up With This Blockbuster Prequel

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The new ‘Mad Max Saga’ has some incredible moments, but it never quite attains the level of greatness of previous films in this series. Continue reading…

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A review of 'Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti' directed by Bolanle Austen-Peters

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The film, which hit cinemas last weekend, offers fresh perspectives on the life of the famous educator, activist, wife, mother, and giver of good trouble than any Social Studies class ever would.

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Rumours review – close encounters for Cate Blanchett and the magnificent G7

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Cannes film festival Seven world leaders – including Charles Dance’s dozy US president – are trapped in a forest in this amusing but bizarre apocalyptic comedy

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Maria Bakalova wows in a leggy tweed suit as she joins Sebastian Stan at The Apprentice photocall during Cannes - as it gets lukewarm reviews and Trump campaign say they will sue filmmakers

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Maria Bakalova wowed in a leggy tweed suit as she joined her co-star Sebastian Stan at The Apprentice photocall during Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday.

The Apprentice verdict: Trump biopic receives lukewarm reviews from Cannes critics after campaign says it will sue makers of movie that shows then property mogul 'raping' his wife Ivana

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The film, directed by Ali Abbassi and written by Gabriel Sherman, follows Trump during his career as a real estate baron in the 1970s and 80s.

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The Apprentice review roundup: What critics are saying about docudrama on Donald Trump’s early years

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Origin story of former US president premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Monday

Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 review: a visual step forward even more contemptuous of interactivity than the first

Three questions before we start:; 1) Do you like Robert Eggers' film The Northman?