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After Trump Win, Hollywood Prepares for Megamergers – and Volatility
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Dry Ground Burning
A gang of tough queer women controls an illicit oil refinery in this grim neorealist documentary drama, set in Brazil’s largest shanty town.
Read More >>The Forger
Maggie Peren’s evocation of young, reckless Jewish forger Cioma Schönhaus during the dark days of Hitler’s Berlin is strong on physical atmosphere but can’t balance his devil-may-care spunk with a sense of what awaits should he be caught
Read More >>Route Ten
What on the surface appears to be a formulaic road movie thriller about a couple of siblings tormented by a white Jeep on a desert road turns into a surprising critique of the Saudi old guard in which the younger generation declares its liberation from toxic patriarchy.
Read More >>West Side Story
Spielberg uses every tool in his toolbox for this dynamic but emotionally limp restaging of the classic musical, whose themes he underscores for the Trump era.
Read More >>The Exam
Cheating on a high school exam for a good cause gives top Iraqi Kurdish writer and director Shawkat Amin Korki (‘Memories on Stone’) a fertile moral field to examine the traps surrounding female empowerment in ‘The Exam’.
Read More >>Flee
Denmark’s shortlisted Oscar contender is a warmly personal animated documentary about a refugee coming to terms with his sexuality and painful family history.
Read More >>Lamb
Noomi Rapace stars in Iceland’s boldly original Oscar submission, a twisted folk-horror thriller about fantastic beasts and family trauma.
Read More >>The Lost Daughter
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel strays too far from Italy to be convincing, but a stunningly good Olivia Colman saves the day.
Read More >>Petite Solange
A keenly observed if somewhat underwhelming chronicle of divorce, and how it upends the life of a teenage girl.
Read More >>Communion
In his exploration of a man’s descent into madness during the present pandemic, director-actor Nejib Belkadhi makes a rare of-the-moment drama, inflected with humor and surrealism, that captures our unease in ways likely to outlast COVID’s grip on our psyches.
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