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‘Paddington in Peru’ Review: Olivia Colman in a Charming-Enough Threequel That Struggles To Live up to Its Predecessors
Dougal Wilson directs the latest installment in the family-friendly franchise, with Ben Whishaw once again voicing its curious ursine hero.
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‘Blitz’ Review: Saoirse Ronan in Steve McQueen’s Admirably Crafted but Overly Clichéd Tribute to London’s Survival in World War II
The Apple TV+ dramatic feature centers on a young boy and his mother trying to find their way back to one another amid the bombing of the city.
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‘My Eternal Summer’ Review: A Danish Tearjerker Brought to Life in Poignant, Unsentimental Detail
Director Sylvia Le Fanu's feature debut chronicles an ailing mother's final weeks, as seen through the eyes of her 15-year-old teenage daughter over an eventful family vacation.
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‘When Fall Is Coming’ Review: François Ozon Crafts a Darkly Funny French Drama Worth Savoring
A retiree with a complicated past finds her relationship with her disapproving daughter and darling grandson derailed by an accident involving poison mushrooms.
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‘Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness’ Review: Johnny Depp’s Return to Directing Yields a Bland Biopic of a Tortured Artist
Premiering at the San Sebastian Film Festival, the drama co-starring Al Pacino chronicles three chaotic days in the life of Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani.
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‘Emmanuelle’ Review: Audrey Diwan’s Update of a ’70s Softcore Hit Is More Pretty Than Purposeful
Premiering at the San Sebastián Film Festival, the drama starring Noémie Merlant, Naomi Watts and Will Sharpe chronicles the erotic adventures of a businesswoman on a trip to Hong Kong.
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THR Critics Pick the Best Films From the Fall Festivals
An ambitious American immigrant saga, Nicole Kidman’s steamy erotic thriller, an intimate John Lennon doc and a trippy Luca Guadagnino-Daniel Craig collaboration are among our reviewers’ 15 faves out of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘Youth (Homecoming)’ Review: Documentarian Wang Bing Concludes His Chinese Garment Workers Trilogy in Compelling Fashion
A follow-up to 2023's 'Youth (Spring)' and this year's 'Youth (Hard Times),' the film follows several factory workers as they return to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year.
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‘Love’ Review: A Charming and Intelligent Norwegian Dramedy to Win Over Hearts and Minds
The film, about two colleagues with very different approaches to sex and romance, is the second in a planned thematic trilogy from writer-director Dag Johan Haugerud.
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‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter Two’ Review: Kevin Costner’s Western Epic Trudges Ahead With a Slightly More Watchable Sequel
Sienna Miller, Giovanni Ribisi and Luke Wilson also star in the sweeping adventure, intended as part of a four-film series about the settlement of the American frontier.
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‘Stranger Eyes’ Review: A Slippery, Well-Acted Singaporean Thriller About Observation and Surveillance
The latest from director Yeo Siew Hua ('A Land Imagined') centers on a couple whose secrets are exposed after their young daughter goes missing.
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TIFF 2024: Read THR’s Reviews of the Movies Screening at the Toronto Film Festival (Updating)
The Hollywood Reporter critics weigh in on this year’s crop of titles, from biopics to documentaries, sweeping epics to intimate character studies, tear-jerking dramas to laugh-out-loud comedies.
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