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Cannes Film Festival

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Festivals

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Russ­ian exile film­mak­er Kir­ill Sere­bren­nikov selects Auschwitz’s ​“Angel of Death“ as the sub­ject of the first film made in his new home, Germany.
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Festivals

It Was Just an Accident – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Iran­ian direc­tor Jafar Panahi deliv­ers a Palme-ready thriller explor­ing the high price of revenge on a poten­tial­ly evil man.
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Festivals

Eleanor the Great – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

June Squibb plays a spir­it­ed nona­ge­nar­i­an who moves back to New York from Flori­da in Scar­lett Johansson’s under­whelmed direc­to­r­i­al debut.
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Once Upon a Time in Gaza – first-look review

by Yasmine Kandil

Arab and Tarzan Nasser’s thriller trans­ports us to 2007, where two friends run­ning a drug deal­ing busi­ness out of a falafel cart soon come into con­flict with a cor­rupt police officer.
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Vie Priveé – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Jodie Fos­ter stars as a psy­chi­a­trist try­ing to solve a poten­tial mur­der in Rebec­ca Zlo­towski’s under­whelm­ing drama.
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Highest 2 Lowest – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Den­zel Wash­ing­ton stars in Spike Lee’s updat­ed ver­sion of Aki­ra Kuro­sawa’s High and Low, about a music mogul who is tar­get­ed by a venge­ful kidnapper.
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Festivals

Eagles of the Republic – first-look review

by David Jenkins

A slick screen icon becomes a polit­i­cal pawn in this brash movie indus­try satire-cum-polit­i­cal spy thriller from Tarik Saleh.
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Splitsville – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Two cou­ples find them­selves caught up in a love quad­ran­gle after one of them sep­a­rate in Michael Ange­lo Covi­no’s roman­tic comedy.
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Alpha – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Return­ing to Cannes after win­ning the Palme d’Or for Titane, Julia Ducour­nau shifts gears with a unique dra­ma inspired by the AIDS crisis.
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The Love That Remains – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Hlynur Pál­ma­son’s close-to-home new dram­e­dy doc­u­ments a year in the life of a fam­i­ly fol­low­ing the par­ents’ separation.