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‘Architecton’ Review: Victor Kossakovsky’s Magnetic Film Essay Reflects On Man’s Relationship With Nature – Berlin Film Festival
It's very easy to misread the title of Victor Kossakovsky's latest documentary as "Architection," since it is, in some ways, a detective story about the world we live in, albeit one in which it is very easy to figure out whodunit (spoiler: we did it to…
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‘Spaceman’ Review: Adam Sandler Fails To Style Out This Dour Sci-Fi – Berlin Film Festival
For a time, it seemed like an auteur war was about to break out over Adam Sandler, with some of America's most revered directors vying to find the right role for the comedian. It was rumored, but never confirmed, that Quentin Tarantino imagined him a key role while writing Inglourious Basterds, although…
‘Dune: Part Two’ Review: Denis Villeneuve’s Spectacular Sequel Goes Heavy On The Mythos
Settling back into Denis Villeneuve's exotic sci-fi world gets off to a tense start, with a sudden horns-of-Jericho blast from Hans Zimmer's score, coupled with a stern warning onscreen: "Power over spice is power over all." It seems a little unnecessary, since the pursuit of spice — a highly sought-after…
‘Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger’ Review: Scorsese Pays Tribute To British Cinema’s Visionaries – Berlin Film Festival
It's not often that a doc about the transformative power of cinema will deliberately use bad clips of the movies it's talking about, but that's part of the point of this insightful, sprawling film, corralled by director David Hinton. Though the masterpieces made by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger at…
BAFTA Film Awards: Ceremony Highlights & Lowlights
After a few years in limbo, the BAFTAs finally found a host to replace the much-missed Stephen Fry in David Tennant. The Doctor Who actor proved an amiable and funny emcee, although much of his humor would have gone way over the non-Brits in the audience, starting with a lengthy filmed skit riffing on his…
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BAFTAs: Christopher Nolan Scores First Best Director Win From British Academy With ‘Oppenheimer’
Given the number of high-wattage films garnering multiple nominations at the BAFTAs this year, the rationing of awards was always likely unpredictable on the night. And so it proved, meaning that The Zone of Interest and Poor Things had already nibbled away at Oppenheimer's chances of a decent sweep…
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BAFTAs: Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy And The Heron’ Breaks Hollywood’s Hold On Animation Category
The animated category seemed at first glance to be wide open, with Hayao Miyazaki's critically acclaimed film The Boy and The Heron leading the pack by only the tiniest of margins. Miyazaki faced strong competition on home turf from the local entry Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the latest and only the…
‘Meanwhile On Earth’ Review: An Endearingly Surreal Meditation On Loss – Berlin Film Festival
Grief is a concept that everyone with a heart can relate to, but it's not always something that everyone with a brain can deal with. Riffing on Jean Cocteau's 1950 classic Orphée and giving it a very modern makeover, French writer-director Jérémy Clapin explores that very paradox with Meanwhile on Earth…
‘Bob Marley: One Love’ Review: Biopic Of The Reggae Icon Doesn’t Catch A Fire
For 15 minutes or so, Bob Marley: One Love promises to be an antidote to the usual cookie-cutter music biopic, the kind skewered by the 2007 spoof Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Riffing back then on 2005's Walk the Line, which starred Joaquin Phoenix as…
Jonathan Glazer Talks To Alfonso Cuarón About His Film Buff Roots: “I Was The First Kid In The UK To Watch ‘Star Wars’”
This week started on a high for director Jonathan Glazer, after his Cannes Grand Prix-winner The Zone of Interest took Best Film and Best Director at the 44th London Film Critics' Awards on Sunday. Glazer has been sparing in his appearances since the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, presumably…
‘10 Lives’ Review: Christopher Jenkins’ Cosy Family Animation Deals With Animal Magic And Loss – Sundance Film Festival
There's quite a lot going on beneath the shiny, fun surface of this animated comedy, though some of the questions it deals with — animal mortality, the world's fragile eco-system — might be too much for younger children to process. For older, smarter kids, it could be a gateway film, a way to turn young…
‘Little Death’ Review: David Schwimmer Takes A Risk In A Satirical Psychodrama With A Twist – Sundance Film Festival
David Schwimmer makes a bold choice with this ambitious, if not entirely seamless psychodrama. Starting out as a hyperactive life-in-crisis movie, like a more melancholy, introspective Fight Club, it swaps horses in midstream with a shocking twist that will likely alienate any viewers seduced by seeing…
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