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SOFIA COPPOLA: ON THE ROCKS (2020)

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RASHIDA JONES, BILL MURRAY IN ON THE ROCKS

ON THE ROCKS (Sofia Coppola 2020). A mother and writer (Rashida...

AZAZEL JACOBS: FRENCH EXIT (2020)

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MICHELLE PFEIFFER, LUCAS HEDGES IN FRENCH EXIT

Escape from Manhattan

Azazel Jacobs' French Exit, based on a...

YULENE OLAIZOLA: TRAGIC JUNGLE/SELVA TRAGICA (2020)

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INDIRA ANDREWIN (RIGHT) IN TRAGIC JUNGLE

Tristes tropiques

Olaizola updates the myth of the...

CHRISTIAN PETZOLD: UNDINE (2020)

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FRANZ ROGOWSKI AND PAULA BEER IN UNDINE

Where men drown and Berlin history becomes sexy

Undine is an energetic,...

STEVE MCQUEEN: RED, WHITE AND BLUE (2020)

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JOHN BOYEGA IN RED, WHHITE AND BLUE

A personal struggle to combat police racism from within

McQueen...

GIANFRANCO ROSI: NOTTURNO (2020)

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ALI, THE BOY WHO FISHES AND HUNTS IN NOTTURNO

ON the edge of war in the Middle east: a dark visual poem

In...

DEA KULUMBEGASHVILI: BEGINNING დასაწყისი (dasats'q'isi) (2020)

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IA SUKHITASHVILI IN BEGINNING

A woman in trouble

Dea Kulumbegashvili is a powerful...

MICHAEL DWECK, GREGORY KERSHAW: THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS (2020)

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AURELIO AND BIRBA IN THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS

Hunting that most special thing: a delicacy
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EUGÈNE GREEN: ATARRABI & MIKELATS 2020)

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A myth of two opposite brothers

Green's new film recreates in modern dress an old Basque fable about good...

STEVE MCQUEEN: MANGROVE (2020)

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Mangrove tells this true story of The Mangrove Nine, who clashed with London police in 1970. The trial that followed...

HEIDI EWING: I CARRY YOU WITH ME/TE LLEVO COMINGO (2020

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ARMANDO ESPITIA AND CHRISTIAN VASQUEZ IN I CARRY YOU WITH ME

Gay immigration movie makes its...

JIA ZHANGKE: SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE 直游到海水变蓝(2020)

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CLIP OF VISITORS TO JIA'S NATIVE FENYANG GLIMPSED IN SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE...

ORSON WELLES: HOPPER/WELLES (2020) (Spotlights series)

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DENNIS HOPPER IN HOPPER/WELLES

The young dog and the old dog

This film, resurrected by...

MATIAS PIÑEIRO: ISABELLA (2020)

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MARIA VILLAR AND AGUSTINA MUÑOZ IN ISABELLA

In which the young Argentinian still proves opaque

Argentine filmmaker...

SAM POLLARD: MLK/FBI (2020)

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How the FBI hounded MLK and let him die

This is above all, a film that organizes things for us, things we may already...

NICOLÁS PEREDA: FAUNA (2020)

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LÁZARO GABINO RODRIGUEZ AND LUISA PARDO (WEARING WIGS) IN FAUNA

Meeting up and making up

The 38-year-old...

PHILIPPE GARREL: THE SALT OF TEARS/LE SEL DES LARMES (2020)

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OULAYA AMAMRA AND LOGANN ANTUOFERMO IN THE SALT OF TEARS

Lucky Luc

Philippe Garrel is...

CHAITANYA TAMHANE: THE DISCIIPLE (2020)

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A STILL FROM TAMHANE'S THE DISCIPLE

Trapped in the pressures of musical tradition in modern India

The...

CHLOE ZHAO: NOMADLAND (2020) Centerpiece

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FRANCES MCDORMAND IN NOMADLAND

Forced off the grid and choosing to stay there

At the outset of...

TSAI MING-LIANG: DAYS 日子(2020)

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ANONG HOUNGHEUANGSY AND LEE KANG-SHENG IN DAYS

The music box

Reactions range (on Letterboxd) from "a snoozer...

FREDERICK WISEMAN: CITY HALL (2020)

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MAYOR OF BOSTON MARTY WALSH IN CITY HALL

Guy Lodge's Variety review lead off, "Frederick Wiseman’s Mammoth...

PHILIPPE LACOTE: NIGHT OF THE KINGS/LA NUIT DES ROIS (2020)

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KONÉ BAKARY IN NIGHT OF THE KINGS

Night of the red moon

Night of the Kings/La Nuit...

GARRETT BRADLEY: TIME (2020)

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A woman waits eighteen years for her husband to get out of prison

Time by documentarian Garrett Bradley is an...

SONG FANG: THE CALMING 平静 (2020)

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QI XI IN THE CALMING

Where life, though joyless, still is calm

I reviewed Son Fang's first film, Memories Look...

VICTOR KOSSAKOVSKY: GUNDA (2020

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GUNDA WITH PIGLET IN GUNDA

In a pig's eye

What is the average life span of a pig? Well, that's just one of the...