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Festivals

My Father’s Dragon – first-look review

by Callie Petch

Cartoon Saloon return with a poignant tale of a boy who sets out on a quest to find a dragon in peril.
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Festivals

Walk Up – first-look review

by Weiting Liu

A filmmaker and his estranged daughter visit an old friend in Hong Sang-soo’s latest riff on the connection between art and romance.
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Review

The Woman King

by Rógan Graham

Gina Prince-Bythewood delivers her masterpiece in this quietly radical action epic with a stunning lead turn from Viola Davis.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Incoming

Pope of trash John Waters will return to directing with an adaptation of his own novel

by Charles Bramesco

Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance marks Waters’ first time behind the camera in 18 years.
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Festivals

Mutzenbacher – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Ruth Beckermann enlists a hundred men to read passages from the controversial 19th century novel Josefine Mutzenbacher: The Life Story of a Viennese Whore.
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In Praise Of

Chaos in the kitchen with The Bear and Boiling Point

by Henry Boon

This year, one television series and one film have captured the highs and lows of working in a professional kitchen.
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Incoming

Everything we know so far about Terrence Malick’s Way of the Wind

by Finlay Spencer

True to form, the elusive American auteur is taking his precious time over his forthcoming Bible epic.
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Review

The Cordillera of Dreams

by Marina Ashioti

Master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán turns his gaze to the enigmatic Andean mountain range as he examines the troubled histories of Chile.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Festivals

Coma — first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Bertrand Bonello’s bouncing off the walls in this free-associative grab-bag of early lockdown anxieties.
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Incoming

What is Luca Guadagnino adding to his extended cut of A Bigger Splash?

by Charles Bramesco

The director’s cut, titled An Even Bigger Splash, will restore 70 minutes of footage cut from the film. To what effect?