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'Janet Planet' Review: Annie Baker's Mother-Daughter Duet

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The Pulitzer-winning playwright makes her directorial debut with this delicate film about a woman and her 11-year-old child in Massachusetts.

Annecy Review: 'Diplodocus' is a Peculiar Meta Story About Creativity

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Yet another animation creation unlike anything ever seen before. The Polish animated film Diplodocus is finally finished & ready to wow everyone. It just premiered at the 2024 Annecy Film Festival in the out-of-competition Annecy Presents…

The Stormtrooper Scandal review: How an absurd Star Wars scam laid bare the stupidity of the art world, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: What director Stuart Bernard inadvertently revealed in this film is how fake the entire art world has now become.

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Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal review Chandu Champion; dub Kartik Aaryan's performance as 'outstanding, spectacular'

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Kartik Aaryan's recently released film, Chandu Champion, is winning the hearts of the audience. Many celebrities, including Shabana Azmi, Vidya Balan, Javed Akhtar, Kapil Dev, and Milap Zaveri, have reviewed Kabir Khan's directorial…

‘The Exorcism’ Review: Russell Crowe Is Fighting Demons Again But This Time The Devil Is In The Details

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The Exorcist directed by William Friedkin and written by William Peter Blatty is considered, still, perhaps the greatest horror film of all time, certainly the most popular. The 1973 movie was even nominated for 10 Oscars and won 2,…

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Horror film Munjya: See it's OTT platform, reviews and more

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Dipika Kakar and Shoaib Ibrahim make for the most adorable pair. They have been getting all the love from their fans. Dipika and Shoaib's happy family moments make us wish to have such a beautiful life. They are just perfect together and…

The Exorcism review: Russell Crowe horror is possessed by too many ideas

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There’s a killer premise (several, actually) and some good acting buried inside The Exorcism. Based, in part, on the urban legends and real-life tragedies surrounding the production of The Exorcist, the film boasts an eye-witness source.…

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Chestnut review: A forgettable slice-of-life film for the Sally Rooney set

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At some point in their journey, every queer woman is forced to learn a particularly tough lesson: If a girl ever tells you how much she loves kissing her friends when she’s drunk, you run. Just run! There’s nothing for you there but pain,…

The Merry Widow Review: This Widow is merrier than ever at Glyndebourne

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Cal McCrystal work on One Man, Two Guvnors and the two Paddington films, inspires his direction of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow to create perhaps the merriest show ever seen at this glorious opera house in Sussex.

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Kinds of Kindness Review: Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone Let Freak Flag Fly

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The most popular thing to do when watching an anthology film is finding the connective thread. Whether they’re exercises in genre cinema or quirky odes to magazine journalism, the inherent appeal of three or more stories playing to you in…

'Kinds of Kindness' Review: Yorgos Lanthimos's Warped Fables

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With performances by Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons, the writer-director’s loosely connected three-part film will make audiences squirm with its episodes of bodily mutilation and violence.

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Review: ‘Thelma’June Squibb And Richard Roundtree Are A Perfect Action Duo In Josh Margolin's Delightful First Feature

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*NOTE: This review was originally part of our 2024 Sundance Film Festival coverage.* As an “old lady action-movie,” Thelma is everything you want it to be. Directed and written by first-timer Josh Margolin and inspired by his own…

The End We Start From cast, locations, and reviews as Jodie Comer film lands on Netflix

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Jodie Comer, Joel Fry, Katherine Waterston, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Gina McKee star in The End We Start From which is an adaptation of Megan Hunter's novel of the same name

Rite Here Rite Now review – soft-metallers Ghost offer skits and shreds in fan-service film

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Concert footage, theoretically bolstered with frontman Tobias Forge’s feeble skits, seems likely to please only the diehard types

THE BIKERIDERS Review: Jeff Nichols Soulfully Deconstructs '60s-Era Masculinity

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Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy star in a new film by Jeff Nichols.

The Exorcism review: Russell Crowe makes his second Catholic demon-hunting film in a year worth watching

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While this new film lacks the Italian-accented camp of 2023’s ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’, it makes up for it with some decent B-movie thrills... at least until its climax

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Annecy Review: 'Memoir of a Snail' is Another Stop-Motion Wonder

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"Life's a beautiful tapestry that needs to be experienced... It's small pleasures savored..." You never know when you'll stumble across a film so touching, so profound, so wholesome in every sense, that it will leave a lasting impression…

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Ullozhukku Movie Review: Critics Laud Urvashi and Parvathy Thiruvothu's 'Brilliant' Performances In Christo Tomy's Directorial

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Ullozhukku, a Malayalam drama directed by Christo Tomy, is set to hit theatres on June 21. Early reviews of the film have praised its screenplay and powerful performances.

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The Review: ‘Deadland’ – A Haunting Thriller That Defies Death

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In the eerie world of Deadland, where the border between life and the afterlife blurs, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Angel Waters (portrayed by Roberto Urbina) grapples with a chilling mystery that isn’t of the ordinary. Directed by Lance…