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Oeuvre: Spielberg: The BFG

Unlikely as it is, The BFG marked a lot of firsts for its creative team—chief among them, that it was the first Roald Dahl adaptation done by Steven Spielberg. It even marked the first collaboration...

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A Working Man

There’s something oddly relatable about Jason Statham. The 57-year-old Brit who’s been beating up bad guys in mostly mid-tier—though occasionally inventive—actioners since his breakout in 1998’s Lock,...

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Death of a Unicorn

It may be early still, but A24 is not having a great start to 2025. Two of the three films that the studio has released so far this year (Parthenope and Opus) bowed to poor reviews. Only Rungano...

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Thank You Very Much

Technically, the entire point of Thank You Very Much is to peel back the layer of a joke until we can see all its cogs working—how it came to be told, where it’s headed and everything in between. To be...

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Viet and Nam

Viet and Nam has been banned in Vietnam. Vietnam’s Cinema Department claims the film’s portrayals of the country and its people are too negative, a decision that doesn’t come as a shock – Viet and Nam...

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Holy Cow

In Louise Courvoisier’s coming-of-age feature debut, no time is wasted transporting audiences to her small corner of the world. With the very first shot, we’re abruptly faced with a precious little...

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Rediscover: Palms

Artur Aristakisian did not intend to make a film. He simply felt he had to record footage, wandering around his native Kishinev (now Chișinău) with a camera during the strange and fractured time of...

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Grand Tour

Miguel Gomes is one of the more inventive directors in world cinema. He also proves how much a great artist can do with a small budget. Gomes’s last two projects encapsulate this well: a vivid,...

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Julie Keeps Quiet

The struggle to “make it” in sports is not a new concept in film. The idea almost lends itself to a feature-length project, as the challenges the character faces can be shaped into the first half of a...

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Holy Hell! Caché Turns 20

The reputation of auteurs is always a fun dinner topic. With the power of two decades of hindsight, it’s typically trivial to place notable films and filmmakers into broad categories; “underrated on...

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