On the surface level, ‘All of You’ is a film about how often technology distracts us from connection, but it also works as a lesson that true love is measured by the lengths we go to protect the relationships that matter most.
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Romance stories are a dime a dozen, but Kogonada’s ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ dares to be different. However, despite the star power of its two considerably talented stars, this unconventional love story fails to leave a mark.
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Thanks to its assured sense of style and magnifying performances from Tessa Thompson and Nina Hoss, director Nia DaCosta crafts her best-ever film with a modern adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and takes ‘Hedda’ in more daring directions than its original author ever envisioned.
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While Oliver Hermanus stuns with its patient visual language and soul-shocking musical sequences, ‘The History of Sound’s structure — and a miscast Paul Mescal — leaves a lot to be desired by the time the movie reaches its admittedly devastating epilogue.
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For Channing Tatum fans, this is definitely not a film to miss – as always, he is a standout as his natural charisma brings a lot of life to ‘Roofman’ and makes the film more than worthwhile. Other audience members may not be convinced.
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While ‘The Lost Bus’ follows the 2018 Northern California Camp Fire, the prevalence and recency of what seems to be an evermore common occurrence of mass wildfires in California makes the timely release of this project all the more topical.
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Óliver Laxe crafts an unrelentingly cruel picture with the explosive ‘Sirāt’, questioning human morality at the center of his scorching, pulse-pounding thriller.
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Because director Francis Lawrence is such a storied visual artist, ‘The Long Walk’ can mostly overcome its shoddily written screenplay as it continuously coddles the audience through a slow paced stroll of Stephen King’s first work.
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Alex Russell eviscerates our social media-obsessed era with the riveting and often terrifying ‘Lurker’, thanks to incredible turns from Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe.
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Spike Lee’s adapts Akira Kurosawa’s original with ’Highest 2 Lowest’ - undoubtedly the best remake of his career, anchored by another magnifying lead turn from Denzel Washington, who continues to prove why he’s the greatest to have ever done it.
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In a summer movie landscape overcrowded with superhero blockbusters, ‘She Rides Shotgun’ is a refreshing change of pace, delivering a powerful story of unconditional love and lost innocence set against a thrilling backdrop.
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While it may not be as narratively and thematically strong as ‘Past Lives’, Celine Song still delivers a jaw-droppingly affecting meditation on love and its intrinsic connection to life with ‘Materialists’.
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While ‘On Swift Horses’ boasts compelling performances from its star-studded cast, the film’s lack of identity makes it difficult for audiences to latch onto its story and thematic underpinnings.
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Rami Malek shines in ‘The Amateur’, as the Oscar-winning actor delivers a performance in this action-thriller that feels tailor-made for him.
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Thanks to a magnifying lead turn from Susan Chardy, Rungano Nyoni ensures you will not forget ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’, as one of the year’s most important movies.
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In this story of the past coming back to haunt an opera director during a production of ‘Salome’, director Atom Egoyan gives us ‘Seven Veils’, a film which is all that Egoyan fans could ask for.
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Paolo Sorrentino looks at youth’s deepest regrets as time goes by in ‘Parthenope,’ a study on how we we choose to spend the finite period we have on this planet.
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Walter Salles attempts to denounce Brazil’s military dictatorship in his family drama ‘I’m Still Here’ but accomplishes very little despite a committed performance by Fernanda Torres.
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While stars Nicole Kidman and Antonio Banderas give their all in ‘Babygirl’, the film is hindered by a severe lack of chemistry with its lead star and a profoundly miscast Harris Dickinson.
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Tim Fehlbaum’s attempt at criticizing the normative ideals of journalistic objectivity in ‘September 5’ turns into a total and complete failure by being afraid of engaging itself with the backdrop it presents.
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