The huge party at the film’s center is among the great parties of recent American cinema.
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The film finds Marianne Jean-Baptiste channeling an anger that feels excruciatingly real.
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Just as its style is enervating, Emilia Pérez settles for mundane portraiture.
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Grief may be its starting point, but the film has much more on its mind than that.
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Writer-director Rungano Nyoni’s second feature is as acerbic as it is unforgiving.
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Plante discusses whether online culture encourages people to hide themselves in society.
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Perry’s Cubist portrait finds a fitting balance between reverence and mischievousness.
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Folie à Deux is a film caught between a rock and a hard place of its own making.
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Miguel Gomes casts a satirical eye on a globetrotting journey’s basis in colonial conquest.
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The film’s images and words are an imprint of tremendous state violence.
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