A sense of doom hangs over Charlotte Wells’s superb Aftersun. Eleven-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio, naturalistic…
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The three segments that form Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s airy, polished Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy aren’t…
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Lost Soul is really Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr.…
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Lake of the Dead benefits from its crisp black-and-white photography and its strong sense of…
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It’s almost impossible to discuss Michel Franco’s 2021 drama Sundown without spoilers, and it’s hard…
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About halfway through Éric Gravel’s Full Time, the struggling and constantly stressed Julie (Laure Calamy)…
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Mark Lewis’s Rat is a documentary about rats. As always, thanks for reading! Fine, if…
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Mark Waters’s The House of Yes is, appropriately, artificial. Crisply stylized dialogue and arch, consciously…
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X made me breathe a sigh of relief, which is an odd thing to say…
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