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‘Scrambled’ Review: Leah McKendrick’s Darkly Funny Mid-Life Confessional Suffers A Severe Case Of T.M.I – SXSW
‘Scrambled’ Review: Leah McKendrick’s Darkly Funny Mid-Life Confessional Suffers A Severe Case Of T.M.I. → Read More
‘Late Night With The Devil’ Review: Richly Detailed ’70s Meta-Horror From Colin And Cameron Cairnes – SXSW
Having a premiere at SXSW last year turned out to be a charm for directing duo The Daniels, and although awards lightning most likely won’t strike this year for this somewhat niche horror pastiche,… → Read More
‘Late Bloomers’ Review: Karen Gillan Stars In Messy Coming-Of-Age Story – SXSW
Lisa Steen’s debut feature Late Bloomers is an intimate, defiantly female-fronted indie showcasing Karen Gillan. → Read More
Berlin Review: Giacomo Abbruzzese’s ‘Disco Boy’
What do a Belarusian emigrant and an African freedom fighter have in common? It’s a question that Giacomo Abbruzzese’s feature debut, which had its world premiere in Competition at the Berlin Film … → Read More
Berlin Review: Helen Mirren in Guy Nattiv’s ‘Golda’
War is coming in Guy Nattiv’s Golda, onscreen and off. But despite the media’s best efforts to turn the casting of British, non-Jewish actor Helen Mirren as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir into a… → Read More
BAFTA Film Awards Winners – Updating Live
Refresh for latest…: It’s BAFTA Sunday here in London with the annual BAFTA Film Awards ceremony about to kick off at the Royal Festival Hall on an improbably clement evening. Richard E Grant is ho… → Read More
Berlin Review: Byun Sung-hyun’s ‘Kill Boksoon’
Most big Korean action movies are backloaded, wrapping up with three to five endings, but Byun Sung-hyun’s Kill Boksoon, which premiered as a Berlinale Special, has everything going on up front. So… → Read More
Berlin Review: Tina Satter’s ‘Reality’
“Do you have any pets?” When the FBI called at Reality Winner’s Georgia home in June 2017, the agency didn’t exactly start out playing hardball; in fact it, took the better part of hour even to sta… → Read More
Berlin Review: Jesse Eisenberg In John Trengrove’s ‘Manodrome’
There’s a rich history of movies being entirely at odds with their cryptic titles—step forward Quantum of Solace—but for his follow-up to The Wound, South African director John Trengrove has picked… → Read More
Contenders Film: The Nominees Kicks Off Today With 12 Films Vying For Oscar Prize
Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees showcases 12 panels featuring some of the year’s biggest movies as well as its most artistic critical hits. → Read More
Berlin Review: Emily Atef’s ‘Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything’
Emily Atef’s latest feature is something of a curate’s egg, a well-made foray into high-end romantic lit that’s saddled with some off-putting baggage about the reunification of Germany post-1989. T… → Read More
Sundance Review: Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s Remarkable Trans Drama ‘Mutt’
Although trans rights are now the subject of a simmering culture war in America and the U.K., that conflict is largely predicated on the increasing visibility of trans women at a time where self-ID… → Read More
Sundance Review: Kitchen-Sink Whimsy In Charlotte Regan’s ‘Scrapper’
The cost of living crisis has hit the U.K. hard, but you wouldn’t guess from the trio of films screening in the official selection at Sundance. Rye Lane, in Premieres, is a goofy love story set in … → Read More
Sundance Review: Andrew Bowser’s ‘Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls’
Genre comedies are a mixed bag, and for every cult gem like 2010’s Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, the Sundance Midnight strand has been known to throw in a bomb. In its opening moments, Andrew Bowser’s … → Read More
Sundance Review: The Weird World Of Eddie Alcazar’s ‘Divinity’
There’s a certain type of dystopian sci-fi that turns up in Sundance every few years, a kind of ‘EPCOT on acid’ that causes a big ripple then rapidly fades away (see Escape From Tomorrow, a paranoi… → Read More
Sundance Review: Randall Park’s Heartwarming ‘Shortcomings’
For anyone wondering how a film called Crazy Rich Asians ever came to be the poster child for diversity and inclusion, Randall Park’s humorous rebuttal is, almost literally, that film’s poor distan… → Read More
2023 Oscars: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Earns Nine Nominations
At the start of awards season, Edward Berger’s All Quiet On The Western Front was a lock for International, but few could have foreseen how much further it would go. Alongside that nomination, the … → Read More
Sundance Review: Brandon Cronenberg’s ‘Infinity Pool’ Gets Under The Skin
JG Ballard meets Ben Wheatley in Brandon Cronenberg’s latest. Which is a bit of a surprise, since the two have already met: in 2015, in the latter’s dystopian satire High-Rise. There are (literal) … → Read More
Sundance Review: Adura Onashile’s Tender Mother And Daughter Story ‘Girl’
Premiering in the World Dramatic Competition, Adura Onashile’s debut feature Girl takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, but, given its themes of identity and belonging, this tender story of a refugee m… → Read More
Sundance Review: Eve Hewson Breaks Out In John Carney’s ‘Flora And Son’
Working at the opposite end of the spectrum to Baz Luhrmann, Ireland’s John Carney seems content to make low-key, localized musicals that are almost custom-sized for Sundance. True, some fingers we… → Read More