Contributions from David Jenkins | Little White Lies

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Asteroid City – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Wes Anderson returns with one of his most dazzling, rich and playfully self-reflexive films to date, brought to eye-popping life by an all-timer ensemble.
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Fallen Leaves – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Another gorgeous tragicomic farce from Finnish maestro Aki Kaurismäki, a heartfelt cinephile ode to the possibility of love among the working classes.
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Killers of the Flower Moon – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Martin Scorsese’s wistful remembrance of tragedies that befell the Osage nation is a film of high seriousness and low spectacle.
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Pictures of Ghosts – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Brazil’s Kleber Mendonça Filho returns with this extremely charming personal survey of the grand picture palaces of Recife.
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About Dry Grasses – first-look review

by David Jenkins

More verbose magnificence from Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who makes three-and-half hours whiz by with this comic portrait of an untreatable misanthrope.
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Lost in the Night – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Mexican provocateur Amat Escalante makes a half-cocked bid for mainstream respectability in this intriguing tale of a young man’s torrid search for his missing mother.
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – first-look review

by David Jenkins

It’s an improvement on the execrable Crystal Skull, but James Mangold’s exhumation of the Spielberg adventure serial is both tame and unnecessary.
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The Delinquents – first-look review

by David Jenkins

This deadpan philosophical crime caper from Argentina’s Rodrigo Moreno is a meandering and hilarious delight from end to end.
Review

Pamfir

by David Jenkins

An in-your-face and vibrant gangster comedy set on the Ukraine-Romania border about a man who powers through life and directly into disaster.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Partnership

Found in Translation: On Return to Seoul’s bittersweet depiction of communication

by David Jenkins

How Davy Chou’s lilting identity crisis comedy traverses the bridges and barriers that come with language.

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