The story may be bleak, but the discovery of a talent as bright as DaCosta's is as hopeful as it gets.

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Certainly, the danger of assenting to bureaucracies and hierarchies is the wellspring of Lanthimos' creative output, and The Favourite, however different in tone and style, continues his earlier explorations.

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I met with writer/director Peter Hedges (Dan in Real Life) on Saturday, October 20, 2018, at the Middleburg Film Festival, to discuss his latest film, Ben Is Back (which I also reviewed). It tells the hard-hitting tale of a young […]

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I met with writer/director/actor Joel Edgerton (The Gift) on Saturday, October 20, 2018, at the Middleburg Film Festival, to discuss his feature adaptation of Garrard Conley’s eponymous 2016 memoir, Boy Erased (which I also reviewed). The film is brisk and […]

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As we learn – if we didn't already know – watching They'll Love Me When I'm Dead, Welles was a deeply problematic human being, but there's no doubt that he was an incomparable filmmaker.

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It's not a pretty story, but nor is addiction.

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With remarkable emotional reserve, he walks us through material that could quickly descend into histrionics, maintaining his cinematic cool as he explores the complex drama with sharp observational skills.

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