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Film Review: “La Bola Negra” — Spain’s Queer Past Transformed into a Sweeping Historical Epic

November 4, 2026
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Spanning three timelines, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s ambitious drama pairs intimate stories of repression and desire with grand cinematic spectacle.

Film Review: “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” — A Love Letter to a City That Won’t Love You Back

November 2, 2026
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Noah Segan’s melancholy crime drama pairs a quietly compelling John Turturro with richly textured New York locations, tracing an old-school thief’s struggle to survive in a city moving on without him.

Film Review: A Marriage Under Suspicion in “Gentle Monster”

October 31, 2026
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Léa Seydoux gives a powerful performance in Marie Kreutzer’s unsettling exploration of trust, betrayal, and the limits of knowing the person closest to you.

Film Reviews: Escaping Putin’s Russia, Serving Vichy France — Three Films at the New York Film Festival

October 18, 2026
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Julia Loktev’s six-hour portrait of exiled TV Rain journalists headlined a festival program along with a tale set in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s corrupt provincial Russia and Emmanuel Marre’s understated study of collaboration under Nazi occupation.

Doc Talk: The Simulation According to Musk

October 16, 2026
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In Alex Gibney’s exhaustive documentary, Elon Musk emerges as a visionary, a menace, and a man determined to escape the world he has helped imperil.

Film Review: Elizabeth Holmes, Replicant

October 14, 2026
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Nathan Fielder’s “You Can See Everything” turns the Theranos saga into a revelatory, Philip K. Dickian inquiry into artifice, identity, and truth.

Film Review: “Fjord” Puts Conviction on Trial

October 13, 2026
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Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner asks whether understanding others requires seeing their side—or questioning our own.

Film Review: “Digger” Can’t Dig Its Way Out of Its Own Artifice

October 1, 2026
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Tom Cruise delivers a virtuoso turn, but Iñárritu buries a potentially potent climate-change comedy beneath exposition, self-congratulation, and stunts.

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