More from Jordan Mintzer
‘Tokyo Taxi’ Review: From Japan, a Sentimental, Senior-Skewed Crowdpleaser
The latest feature from 94-year-old director Yoji Yamada follows a cabbie and elderly passenger on one long, nostalgic ride through Japan’s capital.
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‘Mothertongue’ Review: Subtle and Endearing Chinese Dramedy Explores a Flailing Actress’ Return to Her Hometown
The new film from Korean-Chinese director Zhang Lu ('The Shadowless Tower'), which premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival, revolves around a movie star who heads back to the Sichuan capital of Chengdu.
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‘Auction’ Review: Léa Drucker in a Crafty French Tale of Art, Money and Social Class
The latest feature from writer-director Pascal Bonitzer follows what happens after a long lost Egon Schiele painting is discovered by a working-class family in France.
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‘Mother Bhumi’ Review: Fan Bingbing Carries a Magical Realist Malaysian Drama That Intrigues More Than It Captivates
The star of 'I Am Not Madam Bovary' and 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' portrays a widowed mother and spiritual healer trying to defend her neighbors as the government takes away their land.
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‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ Review: Animated French Charmer Portrays the Magic and Terror of Early Childhood
Directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han adapt Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb's bestselling autobiographical novel, which follows a 2-year-old girl growing up in Japan in the 1960s.
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‘Unidentified’ Review: Haifaa al-Mansour’s Clever Saudi Murder Mystery Offers a Scathing Critique of Female Oppression, With a Twist
The latest feature by the 'Wadjda' director follows a self-taught detective investigating the murder of a young woman cast aside by her country.
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Claudia Cardinale, Enchantress of Italian Cinema, Dies at 87
She shuttled between sets in 1963 to make Visconti's 'The Leopard' and Fellini's '8 1/2,' then starred for Leone in 'Once Upon a Time in the West.'
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Critic’s Notebook: Robert Redford, an American Icon Who Dazzled the Screen With His Beauty and Captured a Nation With His Complexity
The star of classics like 'All the President's Men' and 'Three Days of the Condor' rose to fame in an era marked by pessimism and political strife, which would fuel his best work both as an actor and a director.
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Best of the Fall Fests: THR’s Critics Picks
A cathartic tearjerker about Shakespeare’s family, Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear threat thriller and a wrenching Gaza docudrama are among THR reviewers’ 15 faves out of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘Dog 51’ Review: Adèle Exarchopoulos in a Slick French Dystopian Thriller That’s Easy to Watch, and Even Easier to Forget
Gilles Lellouche co-stars in Cédric Jimenez's Venice Film Festival closer, set in a Paris of the near future.
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‘The Sun Rises on Us All’ Review: Two Terrific Actors Carry a Soul-Crushing Chinese Drama That Keeps Striking the Same Note
'People Mountain People Sea' director Cai Shangjun returns to competition in Venice with a story about two former lovers trying to move on from their dark past.
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‘On the Road’ Review: An Extremely Tough, Incredibly Tender Story of Two Men Falling in Love on Mexico’s Deadly Highways
Diego Luna is among the producers of writer-director David Pablos' new feature, about the evolving relationship between a truck driver and a sex worker.
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