“A pandemic and mid-tier movie drought have ravaged theaters, taking their Twinkies off the shelves. But with Bullet Train, shamelessly glutenous cinema is back and I’m here for it.”
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“…I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some of my favorites (or some of the more intriguing ones) to have played through the middle of the festival.”
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“…here are a few selections that got me through the first weekend of the festival.’
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“Viva Lee, alongside her co-stars Muriel Dutil and Khamisa Wilsher, enchant with their non-verbal performances.”
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“Hemsworth makes Spiderhead entirely worthwhile, a rare feat for what amounted to an early summer Netflix dump. That’s because Hemsworth understood the assignment.”
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“An aggravating premise isn’t enough, though, for me to downplay the beauty within Digger.”
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Tsangari, a filmmaker, longtime producer for Yorgos Lanthimos, and pioneer of the Greek Weird Wave, is a 21st century master of deadpan humor.
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“…Sandler - like most everyone involved in the making of Hustle - is a no-holds-barred basketball enthusiast; and Hustle is nothing if not a work of obsession.”
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“Despite the film’s name, Navalny is not a biography of Alexie Navalny...It is, quite frankly, some much deserved anti-Kremlin messaging. And, as such, it is certainly well made.”
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“The B-side to Men takes its greatest qualities - its uneasiness, its Biblical metaphor, the brilliant performances of Buckley and Kinnear - and brings them to the edge of incomprehensibility.”
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“To parse out the fiction and nonfiction of these stories is where The Thief Collector is at its most engaging…”
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