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‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ Review: Animated French Charmer Portrays the Magic and Terror of Early Childhood
Directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han adapt Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb's bestselling autobiographical novel, which follows a 2-year-old girl growing up in Japan in the 1960s.
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‘Unidentified’ Review: Haifaa al-Mansour’s Clever Saudi Murder Mystery Offers a Scathing Critique of Female Oppression, With a Twist
The latest feature by the 'Wadjda' director follows a self-taught detective investigating the murder of a young woman cast aside by her country.
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Claudia Cardinale, Enchantress of Italian Cinema, Dies at 87
She shuttled between sets in 1963 to make Visconti's 'The Leopard' and Fellini's '8 1/2,' then starred for Leone in 'Once Upon a Time in the West.'
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Critic’s Notebook: Robert Redford, an American Icon Who Dazzled the Screen With His Beauty and Captured a Nation With His Complexity
The star of classics like 'All the President's Men' and 'Three Days of the Condor' rose to fame in an era marked by pessimism and political strife, which would fuel his best work both as an actor and a director.
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Best of the Fall Fests: THR’s Critics Picks
A cathartic tearjerker about Shakespeare’s family, Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear threat thriller and a wrenching Gaza docudrama are among THR reviewers’ 15 faves out of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘Dog 51’ Review: Adèle Exarchopoulos in a Slick French Dystopian Thriller That’s Easy to Watch, and Even Easier to Forget
Gilles Lellouche co-stars in Cédric Jimenez's Venice Film Festival closer, set in a Paris of the near future.
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‘The Sun Rises on Us All’ Review: Two Terrific Actors Carry a Soul-Crushing Chinese Drama That Keeps Striking the Same Note
'People Mountain People Sea' director Cai Shangjun returns to competition in Venice with a story about two former lovers trying to move on from their dark past.
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‘On the Road’ Review: An Extremely Tough, Incredibly Tender Story of Two Men Falling in Love on Mexico’s Deadly Highways
Diego Luna is among the producers of writer-director David Pablos' new feature, about the evolving relationship between a truck driver and a sex worker.
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‘Silent Friend’ Review: Tony Leung and Léa Seydoux Share the Spotlight With Plants in a Rich and Strange Scientific Drama
Various species of trees and flowers are among the stars of Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi’s unusual new feature, which premiered in competition in Venice.
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‘Boorman and the Devil’ Review: An Enjoyably Exhaustive Doc Chronicles the Making of ‘Exorcist II: The Heretic,’ One of Hollywood’s Most Despised Sequels
John Boorman, Linda Blair and Louise Fletcher are among the cast and crew interviewed in David Kittredge’s deep dive into a notorious flop.
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‘Elisa’ Review: An Italian Crime Drama That Asks Lots of Intriguing Questions but Delivers Dull Answers
Barabra Ronchi ('Sweet Dreams') stars in the new feature by Leonardo Di Constanzo, about a woman who murdered her own sister but can’t remember committing the crime.
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‘The Fence’ Review: Matt Dillon Stars in Claire Denis’ Vividly Atmospheric but Jarringly Stagy Africa-Set Drama
The French auteur's latest, premiering at TIFF, takes place during one long night on a construction site marked by murder and sexual tension.
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