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Cannes Film Festival

Hope – first-look review

by Iana Murray

Na Hong-jin comes to Cannes with the most expensive Korean film ever made a rip-snorting creature feature with eccentricity and action to burn.
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The Wizard of the Kremlin review – ludicrous and self-aware, with Jude Law as young Putin

by Rafa Sales Ross

Olivier Assayas’ mad and maddening take on the mastermind behind Putin never quite lands a proper punch.

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Venice Film Festival

The Wizard of the Kremlin – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Olivier Assayas’ mad and maddening take on the mastermind behind Putin never quite lands a proper punch.
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Blue Bayou

by Hannah Strong

Justin Chon’s melodramatic tale of immigration and injustice in present-day America is undermined by a clichéd script.

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2
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The Green Knight

by Hannah Strong

Dev Patel and Ralph Ineson face off in David Lowery’s adaptation of a popular Arthurian legend, with stylish results.

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Earthquake Bird

by Josh Slater-Williams

Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough flounder in tepid psychosexual thriller, based on the Susanna Jones novel.

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Tomb Raider

by Elena Lazic

Alicia Vikander delivers the goods and then some in the female-driven action movie we’ve all been waiting for.

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Tulip Fever

by David Jenkins

Alicia Vikander and Christoph Waltz suffer through this turgid period drama.

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The Light Between Oceans

by David Jenkins

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander get hit by a deluge of Emotion in Derek Cianfrance’s period melodrama.

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Jason Bourne

by Manuela Lazic

Matt Damon’s black ops action man returns in a sequel primed for our social media-obsessed times. Uh-oh…

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The Danish Girl

by David Ehrlich

Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander prove a perfect match in this tender transgender drama.

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E

by David Ehrlich

Guy Ritchie’s frisky take on this ​’60s spy serial is all mood and no meat. Great music selections though…

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