Stephanie Bunbury

The nominations for the 96th Oscars revealed Tuesday included a diverse mix of Best Picture contenders, from box office blockbusters and festival favorites to sweeping streamer epics and indie darlings. Deadline reviewed all 10 of the nominees, beginning with Past Lives, when it captured all the…

As 2023 draws to a close, Deadline's film critics have each chosen their top three movies of the year to hail from abroad. Some were festival world premieres, some have made the International Feature Oscar shortlist — and some have not (not all were put forth by their country of origin…

When a man dies, intones the leader of a women's wake, the light goes from the home. Nawal (Mouna Hawa), who has woken to find her increasingly tired husband Adnan has died in the night, bows her head with her accustomed piety as her very existence is erased by this prolonged eulogy to the man who is…

When Tonatiuh was at school, he was voted his year's "Beach Boy," a prank version of Miss Universe. As part of a town parade, hunky Tona was a "vision, slinking down the street," remembers an old classmate in one of many stories being swapped at the now 30-something beach boy's birthday party…

Editors note: This review was originally published May 29 when the movie premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Now Argentina’s Oscar entry, it hits theaters Friday via Mubi. Whether it's the flat white lighting and washed-out color grading that gives The Delinquents the look of a '70s TV…

UPDATED with latest: The Toronto Film Festival began September 7 in Ontario with opening-night movie The Boy and the Heron, from Oscar-winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. It kicked off a lineup for the fest’s 48th edition that included world premieres of GameStop pic Dumb Money, Netflix's Pain Hustlers…

UPDATED with latest: The Venice Film Festival began August 30 with opening-night movie Comandante, an Italian World War II drama, kicking off a lineup for the venerable fest’s 80th edition that includes world premieres of Michael Mann’s Ferrari, Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, Yorgos…

Holly rings her school to tell them she is staying at home. She isn't sick. She just can't bring herself to go. "Bad things are going to happen today," she says just above a whisper, her voice cracking. But bad things happen to Holly most days; she is bullied constantly, little jibes from girls who…

Clean, green Switzerland, land of chocolate, cuckoo clocks and direct democracy, is revealed to have a history of racial abuse as ugly as any other in Giorgio Diritti's rolling epic Lubo, showing in competition at the Venice Film Festival. German actor Franz Rogowski plays the title character, a street…

Sylvia (Jessica Chastain) lives behind an exceptionally well-locked door. Her apartment has three locks of different kinds, keeping out anyone who managed to get past the intercom protecting the front entrance. As a woman living alone with a teenage daughter, perhaps she has her reasons. Just tonight, a…

The first real clue comes when Andrzej is called up for national service and, standing in front of the army medics in his underwear, refuses to take his socks off. His toenails were painted blue, he tells his mates cheerfully a couple of years later, as if it were a joke. But it isn't a joke; it is the…

Not so much beginners as people who never get a fair go, the mixed bag of gay men and women in Australian-Macedonian filmmaker Goran Stolevski's Housekeeping for Beginners, showing in Venice’s Horizons section, lives on a knife's edge. Dita (Anamaria Marinca) owns the house where they jostle along…