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All We Imagine As Light review – dreamlike and gentle modern Mumbai tale is a triumph

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Cannes film festival Payal Kapadia’s glorious Cannes competition selection is an absorbing story of three nurses that is full of humanity

Furiosa: a Mad Max Saga review – striking film has an achingly cool lead, stunning action & tremendous Anya Taylor-Joy

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“WE don’t need another hero,” warbled Tina Turner as the end credits rolled on 1985’s Beyond Thunderdome.

Furiosa: a Mad Max Saga review – striking film has an achingly cool lead, stunning action & tremendous Anya Taylor-Joy

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“WE don’t need another hero,” warbled Tina Turner as the end credits rolled on 1985’s Beyond Thunderdome.

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Review – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Less Fast, Less Furious

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Some films arrive in such a surprising and compelling way that they instantly become legend. “Where were you when Mad Max: Fury Road came out?” Fury Road is a film that brings cinema to life in spine-tingling fashion. Cinematic maths…

‘Beating Hearts’ Review: Gilles Lellouche’s Melodramatic Romance Epic Loses the Magic

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Cannes 2024: Adèle Exarchopoulos stars in a film that starts strong before going off a cliff

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Top 8 Bollywood films on OTT that were ahead of their time

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Bhaiyya Ji Movie Review: Powerhouse talent Manoj Bajpayee's 100th film has been released in theaters today. Directed and written by Apoorv Singh Karki, Bhaiyya Ji tells the story of a man seeking revenge for wrongs done to his family. The…

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‘An Unfinished Film’ Review: Lou Ye’s Docufiction Covid Chronicle Captures the Strange Slippage of Time

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Nostalgic docufiction that morphs into a lockdown thriller, Lou Ye’s “An Unfinished Film” is the second work at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (alongside Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides”) in which a “Sixth Generation” Chinese…

Beating Hearts review – operatic French gangster film suffers from bloat

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Cannes film festival Gilles Lelouche’s new movie aims for a Springsteenesque blue-collar energy but buckles under the weight of its own naivety

‘The Count Of Monte-Cristo’ Review: Sumptuous And Thrilling French Version Of Classic Revenge Tale Feels New All Over Again – Cannes Film Festival

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Take your pick. There have been countless film and tv productions adapting Alexandre Dumas’ classic 19th century tale of revenge and deception, The Count Of Monte-Cristo. We have seen it in different versions in 1934, 1954, 1975, 2002 and…

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'Hit Man' Review: Glen Powell's Parade of Killers

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The actor stars as a man who plays various hit men for the police in Richard Linklater’s mischievously entertaining film, which is being released in select theaters before landing on Netflix next month.

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‘Animale’ Review: A Bullish Sophomore Effort from French Director Emma Benestan

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From Jekyll and Hyde to the Wolfman, to much more recent twists on atavistic transformations, the concept of shape-shifting has always been a popular one in fiction — with storytellers turning the dial up or down on the potential social…

AMAR SINGH CHAMKILA Review: The Reinvention Of Storyteller Imtiaz Ali?

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Amar Singh Chamkila is an immensely fascinating story, told in a way that captures audiences’ interest from the first scene. It’s the return of director Imtiaz Ali, in so many ways, but with a film that is quite a departure from his usual…

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review is gory, thrilling and insane

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George Miller re-visits his oil-soaked franchise with another brutal, female-dominated action film

Hit Man review: Glen Powell delivers the movie-star goods in Netflix action comedy

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Richard Linklater’s latest film works as proof of Powell’s versatility: he’s goofy and sweet one minute, tough the next

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Shane Gillis Netflix Sitcom ‘Tires’ Is a Self-Funded Showcase That Spins Its Wheels: TV Review

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At this month’s Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola and Kevin Costner each unveiled passion projects they opted to finance themselves after institutional backers initially passed. This week, three auteurs make a trend — except…

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

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The Revisited series takes a look back at the fourth film in the Resident Evil franchise, Resident Evil: Afterlife

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‘September Says’ Review: Oddball Teenage Sisters Bonded By Bullying In Ariane Labed’s Directing Debut – Cannes Film Festival

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Weird sisters have been spinning their witchy webs in stories dating back to Greek mythology, which included a macabre trio of sisters who passed a single eye between them. There is something of that sense of a closed circle of unknowable…

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Pieces of a Woman review – shame runs riot after a home birth ends in disaster

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Battersea Arts Centre, London Netflix turned Kata Wéber and Kornél Mundruczó’s play into an Oscar-nominated film. Now a world-class ensemble from Poland’s TR Warszawa bring it out its nuanced brilliance

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Turbo movie review: Mammootty and Raj B Shetty deliver a knockout in this self-aware commercial action flick

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Mammootty is once again set to appear on the big screen and this time the actor arrives with an action-packed mass movie. The film starring the Megastar in the lead role also features Kannada actor Raj B Shetty and Telugu actor Sunil in…

Review: ‘Jurassic World: Chaos Theory’The “Nublar Six” Reunite To Uncover Another Dino-Mystery

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The Jurassic World movies, while fun, haven’t been as well-received as Spielberg’s original film (which still holds up more than 30 years later), but one fun bonus to the Jurassic Park franchise surprisingly was the Jurassic World: Camp…