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Review

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

by Trevor Johnston

The Japanese master delivers his second smash hit of the year with a series of vignettes on human relationships.

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Festivals

Qiu Jiongjiong and Amanda Kramer in focus at IFFR 2022

by Forrest Cardamenis

Rotterdam International Film Festival offered a rich programme in its second virtual edition, with intriguing sidebars on two vastly different artists.
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Six Spanish modern classics to watch after Parallel Mothers

by Megan Wallace

From the Basque-language drama Loreak to the snuff film-inspired Tésis, there’s more to Spanish cinema than Almodóvar.
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Incoming

Alex Garland pivots into outright horror with the first trailer for Men

by Charles Bramesco

In the upcoming film, Jessie Buckley brings her grief to a solo holiday in the English countryside.
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Review

Death on the Nile

by Hannah Strong

Kenneth Branagh directs and stars in a second Agatha Christie adaptation, but we’d rather he hadn’t.

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In Retrospect
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Review

Petrov’s Flu

by Mark Asch

Kirill Serebrennikov presents a fascinating, intense portrait of a comic book artist who suffers from a strange illness.

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Not Movies

Julia Garner scams her way to the top in Inventing Anna

by Leila Latif

The latest ripped-from-the-headlines drama is glossy but potentially as toxic as its girlboss villain.
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Incoming

The 2022 Oscar nominations give cinephiles plenty of cause for optimism

by Charles Bramesco

The Academy voters shied away from the sort of film generally considered ​“awards bait” and instead went for critical darlings.
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Interviews

Johnny Knoxville: ‘It’s not Jackass unless you’re standing on your own dick’

by Hannah Strong

The clown prince of MTV reflects on returning to Jackass 20 years after it all began, and if the new stunts still hurt like they used to.
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Review

Flee

by Ella Kemp

A gay Afghan man leaves his home for a new life in Denmark in Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s moving documentary.

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