More from David Rooney
‘Being Heumann’ Review: Siân Heder’s Drama About the Fight for Disability Rights Strikes Familiar Notes but Gets the Inspirational Uplift Job Done
Ruth Madeley plays the leader of a milestone 1977 anti-discrimination protest, Judy Heumann, in Apple’s crowd-pleaser from the ‘CODA’ director, which opened the Toronto Film Festival.
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‘Joie de Vivre’ Review: Luca Guadagnino’s Marathon Doc on Bernardo Bertolucci Is Both a Feast and a Self-Indulgent Over-Abundance
Martin Scorsese, James Gray, Alfonso Cuarón and David Cronenberg are among directors chiming in on this freewheeling two-part conversation, along with actors Debra Winger and Margot Robbie.
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‘The Spiral’ Review: Jasmine Trinca’s Real Housewife of Bari Makes a Faustian Pact With Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s Enigmatic Stranger in Crackling Chiller
Italian genre specialist Paolo Strippoli’s Venice competitor traces the escalating horror of a wife and mother whose fear of having a less-than-perfect family takes her to dark places.
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‘Bunker’ Review: Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem Are Riveting as a Married Couple Growing Apart in Needling but Schematic Psychological Drama
Stephen Graham and Patrick Schwarzenegger also star in Florian Zeller’s latest, about the ethical and emotional questions raised when an architect considers a lucrative commission from a tech billionaire.
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‘Musk’ Review: Alex Gibney’s Mammoth Elon Musk Doc Is a Poleaxing Portrait of the Tech Titan as a Con Man Given Way Too Much Power to Be Stopped
The Oscar-winning docmaker gets around the hiccup of Musk’s refusal to participate by creating a CG avatar of the world’s richest man.
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‘Look Back’ Review:Â Hirokazu Koreeda’s Lovingly Crafted Manga Adaptation Is a Delicate Charmer About Teen Friendship and Art, Joy and Sorrow
Based on the celebrated standalone manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto, the tender story was previously translated to the screen in a 2024 medium-length anime retelling.
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‘Possible Love’ Review: Korean Master Lee Chang-dong’s Transfixing Meditation on Economic and Emotional Unease Is a Quiet Powerhouse
The 'Burning' director returns after an eight-year absence with this complex drama for Netflix, about the awkward commingling of two couples on either side of the wealth divide.
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‘Primetime’ Review: You Might Feel the Need to Shower After Watching Robert Pattinson as ‘To Catch a Predator’ Host Chris Hansen
Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo and Phoebe Bridgers also star in Lance Oppenheim’s first narrative feature, revisiting the ethically muddy ‘Dateline NBC’ ratings phenomenon.
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‘Elsinore’ Review: Andrew Scott Is Shattering as British Actor Ian Charleson, Throwing Himself Into Playing Hamlet While Succumbing to AIDS
Simon Stone’s drama about the sustaining power of art is a time capsule of late 1980s London, also starring Olivia Colman, Billie Piper and Johnny Flynn.
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‘A Long Winter’ Review: Fred Hechinger and Ebon Moss-Bachrach Shine as Family Thrust Into Uneasy Isolation in Andrew Haigh’s Fine-Grained Drama
Also featuring CaitrÃona Balfe, Kit Connor and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, the film — adapted from Colm TóibÃn's novella — measures the after-effects of a disappearance in the Rocky Mountains in the 1950s.
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‘Burgundy’ Review: The Classic French Vin Rouge Is a Way of Life in Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s Captivating Oenology Doc
The directors behind ‘The Truffle Hunters’ and ‘Gaucho Gaucho’ continue their ethnographic exploration of age-old traditions inextricably embedded in the land.
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‘Wild Horse Nine’ Review: John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell Make a Perfect Pair in Martin McDonagh’s Poignant, Blood-Dipped Buddy Comedy
Steve Buscemi also stars in this story of two CIA operatives who take a trip to Easter Island while readying for the Chilean military coup that would overthrow the Salvador Allende government.
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