After making one of the most innovative animated films with the Oscar-nominated I Lost My Body, Jérémy Clapin returns with his live-action debut that is just as imaginative, but with more chills. Meanwhile On Earth stars newcomer Megan Northam as […]

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After an in-competition premiere at Cannes last year, the latest film from daring auteur Catherine Breillat is finally making its way to U.S. theaters. Last Summer caused quite a stir on the Croisette last year, something the 75-year-old director’s films […]

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We never seem to be running short these days of a Quentin Dupieux comedy. The director’s first of two new movies from last year, Yannick, will arrive stateside on MUBI April 5. The official trailer has just been released by […]

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The documentary that took home the Golden Bear at last year’s Berlin Film Festival is finally coming to North American theaters. Nicolas Philibert’s On The Adamant explores life in a Parisian mental health facility along the Seine River. The Adamant […]

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“What is stronger, your fear or your love for me?” One of the most exciting, versatile filmmakers of today is without a doubt, Bertrand Bonello. The French writer-director (Saint Laurent, Nocturama) returns with his futuristic tenth feature that is sure […]

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As 2021 dawned, we found ourselves as a nation more consumed by the political drama unfolding around us than any narrative created by filmmakers. Truth was, for a while, far stranger than fiction. Eventually, however, we returned to something resembling […]

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Whatever its occasional flaws, then, Human Flow must be seen, reminding us of our common, if fractured, humanity.

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The emotional core of the film, dressed up in irony and even broad humor, is a quiet rage about the systemic crimes being committed in Africa with impunity.

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(A Prophet (Un prophète) is being distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. It opens on Friday, February 26, 2010, in New York and Los Angeles. Visit the film’s official website here.) How good is Jacques Audiard’s new prison thriller A Prophet […]

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