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L'Immensità (Sundance Institute)S
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February 13, 2023

Sundance 2023: A Little Prayer & L’Immensita

A pair of films about family explore the ties that bind and tear apart.
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June 26, 2022

Tribeca 2022: Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz riff on their star personas in Official Competition

Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat’s charming takedown of the movie industry features giddy turns from two of the world’s greatest stars. (This review is part..
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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June 19, 2020

With “Wasp Network,” Olivier Assayas loses his sting

Olivier Assayas' latest is a clunky thriller that resists cinematic convention to its detriment.
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September 29, 2019

NYFF 57: “Pain & Glory” Is Sumptuous, Autobiographic Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar graces us with a shaggy but rewarding portrait of a middle-aged director wrestling with his demons, with an arresting turn by Banderas.
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May 26, 2019

Cannes Review: Pedro Almodóvar Interrogates the “Pain and Glory” of His Own Career

As self-reflective as it is starkly modernist, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest is navel gazing at its finest.