“This is it. The moment of truth.” Fresh off her second Best Actress Oscar win for her performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, Emma Stone’s newest collaboration with the director will be arriving a lot sooner than expected. Lanthimos’ anthology […]

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(The 61st New York Film Festival runs September 29-October 15. Check out Matt Delman’s Poor Things movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The enjoyably eccentric Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has a growing body of work […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Amanda, in theaters now via Oscilloscope. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is a lot of deadpan dialogue delivery in Amanda, Italian director Carolina Cavalli’s debut feature, recalling the […]

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Five years after working together on The Favourite, director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) and star Emma Stone reunite for a more jaw-dropping British tale. Poor Things is Lanthimos’s first feature in five years and opens in theaters early this […]

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Despite the film’s Kafkaesque qualities, Loach finds time to paint a multi-dimensional portrait of a loving family, which makes it all the more devastating when it all falls apart.

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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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