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Festivals

Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 – first-look review

by Luke Hicks

Kevin Cost­ner deft­ly keeps the wheels turn­ing on his hyper ambi­tious four-part west­ern saga, despite a luke­warm recep­tion and scrapped release.
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Love – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Dag Johan Haugerud’s explo­ration of human desire is a sad­ly all too ster­ile affair.
Person blowing out candles on birthday cake in a kitchen setting.
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The End – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Joshua Oppen­heimer returns with an ambi­tious, post-apoc­a­lyp­tic musi­cal whose the­mat­ic flights of fan­cy are always just a lit­tle too strident.

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In Retrospect
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Youth (Homecoming) – first-look review

by Anna McKibbin

The final chap­ter in Wang Bing’s epic tril­o­gy exam­ines love old and new in Chi­na’s Zhili province.
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Top Ranking

Double Threat: A history of actresses directing

by Little White Lies

An expan­sive, 50-film chronol­o­gy look­ing back at the his­to­ry of films direct­ed by female actors.
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Long Read

The irrelevance of gender in the films of Pedro Almodóvar

by Meghana Kandlur

In the cin­e­ma of Pedro Almod­ó­var, gen­der proves more flu­id and arbi­trary than in much of con­tem­po­rary cinema.
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Pavements – first-look review

by Luke Hicks

Alex Ross Per­ry cre­ates a unique docu-fic­tion about cult indie band Pave­ment, blur­ring the lines between real and fake to excel­lent comedic effect.
Two people conversing on a dimly lit stage, illuminated by red lighting and a spotlight.
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Joker: Folie à Deux – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Todd Phillips recruits Lady Gaga to his cir­cus act as Joaquin Phoenix repris­es his role as the crime-com­mit­ting clown about town in this shock­ing­ly ama­teur musi­cal effort.
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The Quiet Son – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Vin­cent Lin­don stars as a wid­ow­er try­ing to steer his young song away from the far right in the Coulin Sis­ters’ frus­trat­ing drama.
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Queer – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Luca Guadagni­no heads on down to Mex­i­co with Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in his free­wheel­ing take on William S. Bur­roughs’ epony­mous novel.