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The Ordinaries
A richly satirical sci-fi allegory with an edge of biting social commentary, director Sophie Linnenbaum’s impressive feature debut is far from ordinary.
Read More >>So Long Daddy, See You In Hell
Teenage rebels confront the sexually abusive leader of a cult-like commune in German director Christopher Roth’s timely, engrossing, based-on-reality drama.
Read More >>Paloma
Actress Kika Sena takes director Marcelo Gomes’s story of a young trans woman to another level as Paloma, a romantic mother and farm worker who dreams of a formal church wedding,
Read More >>Joyland
Winner of the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard, Saim Sadiq’s delicate first feature explores the destructive force of patriarchy in a Pakistani family and the fallout from a long-unemployed man’s work at an erotic dance theatre.
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CANNES GRAND PRIX, JOINTLY AWARDED – REVIEWED MAY 27 Lukas Dhont’s gut-wrenching second feature is a stunning ode to adolescent same-sex friendship and a powerful critique of the ways society normalizes aggression while demonizing physical tenderness.
Read More >>Triangle of Sadness
PALME D’OR IN CANNES – REVIEWED MAY 22 Swedish social satirist Ruben Östlund returns to Cannes with another sprawling but roaringly funny attack on wealth, beauty and privilege.
Read More >>Ice Merchants
A father and son make daily parachute jumps from their cliffside home to sell ice in João Gonzalez’s gripping and poignant animation.
Read More >>Mother and Son
Feted French writer-director Léonor Serraille plots a multi-decade family saga in her ambitious but uneven second feature.
Read More >>The Natural History of Destruction
Sergei Loznitsa’s latest archival cinema essay, inspired by W.G. Sebald’s book and organized within a quasi-symphonic structure, lays out the brutality of fire bombings in World War II and the ways the war machine refused to acknowledge the human costs.
Read More >>The Mountain
Thomas Salvador’s beguiling second feature innovatively combines a realistic first half with fantasy elements in the second without losing its earlier spirit, achieved through unpretentious storytelling, a superb visual eye and excellent special effects.
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