This year’s festival, which runs April 7-10, features 37 titles from 18 countries—22 feature films and 15 shorts.
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In Its Search for Historical Truth, Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’ Is Lush with Twists, Curves, and Swerves
This is top-shelf filmmaking but again, those colors! Pedro Almodóvar clearly lives in a different world than the rest of us poor bastards.
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‘The French Dispatch’ Is Stylish and Easy to Like. But Is it Easy to Love?
The film is jammed with enormously appealing performers, but they’re caught in the exquisite clockwork gears of Anderson’s brain.
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Scary Movies for the Discerning Halloween Enthusiast
Seven relatively below-the-radar scary movies that do interesting things with the genre.
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Fall Arts Preview 2021: Ten Films to Get Excited About
Wes Anderson riffs on The New Yorker, ‘Dune’ gets the blockbuster treatment, Jay-Z produces a Black cowboy epic, and more.
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A New Documentary Chronicles the Incredible Story of How a $1,175 Painting Was Later Sold for $450 Million
‘The Lost Leonardo’ one of the most flat-out fascinating documentary films you’ll ever see.
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In ‘The Night House,’ a Grieving Widow Stumbles Upon Some Seriously Unsettling Blueprints
The Rebecca Hall thriller gives “haunted house” a new meaning.
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The Directorial Debut of Edson Oda is an Ambitious, Existential trip to the Great Before
The film ‘Nine Days’ asks: What if there were a kind of metaphysical vetting process for earning the right to live a life on Earth?
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Marvel Origin Story ‘Black Widow’ Spins a Fierce Feminist Yarn about Sisterhood
‘Black Widow’ ends with young women caring for one another, shaking off the toxic bullshit of older generations, and choosing to do the right thing as they see fit.
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In ‘Undine,’ a Spin on a European Folktale Makes for a Spooky, Sophisticated Romantic Thriller
In her modern incarnation, Undine is trying to break the tragic patterns of her curse.