Ross’s remarkable film fashions mesmerizing, affecting poetry out of Whitehead’s prose.
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This exuberant biopic is as hard to resist as it is to believe that it got made in the first place.
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The film is an effulgent love letter to ’80s kid cinema, laced with a quirky, Kiwi dryness.
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In the context of the trilogy, Youth (Homecoming) feels both standalone and summative.
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Francis Ford Coppola’s 50-year-old dream is now an audacious, uncompromising reality.
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The film obnoxiously looks back at the first SNL with the 20/20 vision of hindsight.
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But how deeply can a film explore the psyche of a man who so nakedly shows us his worst?
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This year’s edition of the festival is a cinematic cornucopia unlike any other.
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The tone of Sora Neo’s film wobbles between a sober social commentary and outright satire.
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Araki discusses how society has and hasn’t caught up with his incendiary trilogy of films.
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