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January 25, 2020

Sundance 2020: “Jumbo” Kisses a Tilt-A-Whirl and Likes It

Portrait of a Lady on Fire's Noémie Merlant gets sweet on a theme park ride in this charming, if conventionally quirky dramedy.
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January 24, 2020

Sundance 2020: “The Painter and the Thief” Finds Activity in Passivity

Benjamin Ree documents the budding, murky friendship between a painter and the man who stole her painting.
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January 18, 2020

“Weathering With You” Is an Animated Ray of Sunshine

Makoto Shinkai's followup to Your Name is another charming coming-of-age tale with a supernatural twist.
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November 13, 2019

The Good Liar Review: Looking for Love in All The Con Places

Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen elevate an otherwise warmed-over thriller as two people wrapped up in a late-life romance gone terribly wrong.
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October 25, 2019

CIFF 10/24: “Seahorse”, “First Rainbow Coalition”, “Vast of Night” & More

Seahorse, The First Rainbow Coalition, and debut feature The Vast of Night highlight our last day of CIFF capsule reviews.
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October 24, 2019

CIFF 10/23: “Wild Sparrow”, “And Then We Danced”, “Knives Out” & More

Our penultimate CIFF dispatch breaks down Rian Johnson's star-studded caper Knives Out, the Georgian queer drama And Then We Danced..., and more.
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October 23, 2019

CIFF 10/22: “Painted Bird”, “Just 6.5”, “By the Grace of God”, “Hypnotist”

The Painted Bird, Just 6.5, Francois Ozon's By the Grace of God, and the documentary The Hypnotist dominate today's CIFF coverage.
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October 21, 2019

CIFF 10/20 Dispatch: “The Sleepwalkers”, “Present.Perfect.”, and More

Sunday's CIFF dispatch includes takes on Argentine drama The Sleepwalkers, live-stream doc Present.Perfect., Chilean doc Cordillera of Dreams, and more.
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October 20, 2019

Parasite Review: Pitch-Perfect Class Critique Crawls Out of the Woodwork

Bong Joon-ho's latest is a twisty, turny, crackerjack class thriller.
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October 19, 2019

CIFF 10/18 Dispatch: “The Apollo,” “Adoration”, “Our Mothers”, “Hala”

Friday's CIFF Dispatch talks up Harlem doc The Apollo, dark fairy tale Adoration, Guatemalan drama Our Mothers, and Minhal Baig's coming-of-age story Hala.