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Negative views of Challengers

What do they say when they don't like it?

They dwell on its chopped-up flashback structure and say it's hard to follow: I have said that. They say the catchy...

Other reviews of Challengers

I liked a gay-focused one by Samantha Allen in a publication called them and entitled "C hallengers is Deliriously Campy Queer Fun." She describes everything better...

LUCA GUADAGNINO: CHALLENGERS (2024)

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MIKE FAIST, ZENDAYA, JOSH O'CONNOR IN CHALLENGERS

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Can't we just be friends?

Fundamentally...

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Tsui Hark's classic 1984 comedy SHANGHAI BLUES to be part of this year's Cannes Classics

UBERTO PASOLINI: NOWHERE SPECIAL (2020)

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DANIEL LAMONT, JAMES NORTON IN NOWHERE SPECIAL

A single father finds out he is soon to die and looks for a...

LIU JIAN: ART COLLEGE 1994 艺术学院 (2023)

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ZHANG ZIAJUN (DONG ZIJIAN AND RABBIT/DAI ZHIFEI (CHIZI) IN ART COLLEGE 1994

Animation evokes a Nineties...

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Milo Machado-Graner in SPECTATEURS by Arnaud Desplechin

Cannes 2024: newly added films

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MINHAL BAIG: WE GROWN NOW (2024)

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Poetic sweetness and brutality blend in a subtle study of growing up Black in the Chicago projects

Here is a...

ALEX GARLAND: CIVIL WAR (2024)

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SCENE FROM CIVIL WAR, CAILEE SPAENY, CENTER FOREGROUND

Memorable mayhem saves Garland's patchy picture of America at...

MAX LUGAVERE, CHRIS NEWHARD: LITTLE EMPTY BOXES (2024)

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MAX AND KATHY LUGAVERE IN LITTLE EMPTY BOXES

A son helps his mother with a fatal disease and...

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The 2024 Directors’ Fortnight lineup
http://www.chrisknipp.com/images/%20qrs.jpg The old symbol for the series used the word "réalizateurs" for...

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The whole Cannes 2024 lineup

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SEE "THE OSCAR EXPERT" INTROS TO SOME OF THE MAIN FILMS

CANNES 2024 - first overview.
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The 77th edition runs May 15-25, 2024
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ENA SERDIJAREVIĆ : SWEET DREAMS (2023)

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MUHAMMAD KHAN AND LISA ZWEERMAN IN SWEET DREAMS

Noble rot

Ena Sendijarević's second feature is a...

MONKEY MAN BOX OFFICE AFTER FIRST WEEK IS GOOD BUT 'MUTED'

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HAO ARE YOU (Dieu Hao Do 2023)

Those interested in the diaspora of Vietnam's Chinese minority after the communists took over South Vietnam in 1975 will find this exploration of his family by the...

SOPHIA, DEATH AND ME (Charly Hübner 2023)

A high concept, dry humor piece about a man who'is visited by Death and stalls for time, going on a road trip to see his estranged seven-year-od son with...

INGEBORG BACHMAN: JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT (Margarethe von Trotta 2023)

Portrait of one of Germany's most prominent poets, intellectuals, and teachers, had a great influence though she died at only...

SONNE UND BETON/SUN AND CONCRETE (David Wnendt 2023)

Boys in the hood Berliner style. It's called Gropiusstadt, and the film follows four of them one hot summer early in the 2000's. Drugs,...

DIEU HAO DO: HAO ARE YOU (2023)

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DIEU HAO DO (CENTER) TALKING TO RELATIVES, LOOKING AT FAMILY PHOTO, ETC. IN HAO ARE YOU

Chasing a diaspora

In...

ON THE ADAMANT: Now Playing in Select Theaters

Opens April 19 in Los Angeles

CHARLY HÜBNER: SOPHIA, DEATH AND ME/SOPHIA, DER TOD UND ICH (2023)

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DIMITRI SCHAAD, MARC HOSEMANN, AND ANNA MARIA MüHE IN SOPHIA, DEATH AND ME[/U] ...

DEV PATEL: MONKEY MAN (2024)

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DEV PATEL IN MONKEY MAN

Patel's directorial debut is violent and beautiful abstract cinematic art

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Dev...

MARGARETHE VON TROTTA: INGEBORG BACHMAN: JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT (2023)

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VICKY KRIEPS AND RONALD ZEHRFELD IN INGEBORG BACHMAN: JOURNEY INTO THE...

DAVID WNENDT: SONNE UND BETON/SUN AND CONCRETE (2023)

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VINCENT WIEMER, LEVY RICO ARCOS, RAFAEL LUIS KLEIN-HESSLING, AARON MALDONADO MORALES IN SONNE UND...