Category: Movies

See For Me (Tribeca Film Festival)T
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January 7, 2022

Tribeca 2021: “See For Me” is an antiheroic take on “Wait Until Dark”

Randall Okita's twisty home invasion thriller makes ample use of its concept, and defies expectations for both good and ill.
The 355F
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January 6, 2022

Female-led actioner The 355 is a big fat zero

Simon Kinberg directs a shaky, dated girl-power actioner that wastes its overqualified cast.
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January 5, 2022

Asghar Farhadi toys with dramatic moral ambiguity in A Hero

Iran's premiere director pivots away from family stories to take a look at society at large.
Jacques Rivette's The NunK
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January 4, 2022

KinoKultur: Nunderestimating the sisters

A duo of nunsploitation films from Kino Lorber tests our preconceptions of faith-based cinema.
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January 3, 2022

Don’t pay a visit to The Tender Bar

George Clooney’s newest lacks personality or wisdom and strands its talented cast with a hazy script.
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December 31, 2021

The Lost Daughter casts a jaundiced eye on motherhood

Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a confident writing/directorial debut in an unsettling but empathetic drama about two women on vacation with all too much in common.
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December 31, 2021

Dickon Hinchliffe on the “lost mixtape” feel of The Lost Daughter

The composer talks about building a retro '60s sound for Maggie Gyllanhaal's haunting directorial debut.
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December 28, 2021

Criterion Corner: The Learning Tree, One Night in Miami…

Two astonishing debuts from Black filmmakers populate Criterion's December offerings.
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December 28, 2021

Cyrano struggles to stay on key

Joe Wright's newest interprets the classic tale as a musical with uneven results.
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December 28, 2021

The Humans finds familiar faces in disquieting places

Camera work redeems the film adaptation's revisiting of common ground.