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Calling out papal bull in the twisty, provocative, and subversive “Conclave”.
Few other films this year will match the absurd satiric heights of director Guy Maddin’s “Rumours”.
“Looking Forward” is constantly vacillating between the things that give you hope and the things that give you despair.”
At The Boston Palestine Film Festival: a recognition of what remains and a restoration of what is lost.
Three fine documentaries at the NYFF: two delved into political matters, the third looked around New York City in 1965.
Cédric Kahn’s conventional but fiery true-life courtroom drama hones in on French racism and anti-semitism.
It’s Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Roy Cohn that hangs in this not-very-good movie like a Rembrandt on the cracked plaster of a La Quinta suite by the airport.
Critic John DiLeo argues that even the Academy Awards can make mistakes. And, in the process, he constructs an alternate history of who should or should not have been Oscar nominees.
The New York Film Festival’s Revivals section offers a preview of valuable recent restorations. Even if these superb movies don’t all make it to American theaters, they’re likely to pop up on physical media or VOD.
This is a work of towering, masterful, sustained cinematic rage set at the dawn of the Reagan Era.
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