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‘A Good Little Soldier’ Review: A Tense French Workplace Drama About a Woman Caught Between Motherhood and Corporate Hell
Alba Rohrwacher ('Hungry Hearts') stars alongside Vincent Lindon ('Titane') in writer-director Stéphane Brizé’s latest story of late-stage capitalism gone awry.
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‘DAU’ Review: A Towering and Immersive Cinematic Epic That Recreates the Dark Ages of Soviet Oppression
Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky's loose biopic of Russian physicist Lev Lendau has been 20 years in the making, with over a dozen related features and other projects created in what’s been dubbed the 'Stalinist Truman Show.'
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‘Hombre Al Agua’ Review: Gael GarcÃa Bernal’s Chaotic Mexican Dramedy Has a Hard Time Staying Above Water
The star of 'Amores Perros' and 'Y tu mamá tambÃen' directs and acts in a midlife crisis flick about a Cuban émigré in Mexico trying to hold onto his family, career and sanity.
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‘Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?’ Review: A Vietnam Vet Reckons With PTSD in a Heavy-Handed Trauma Drama
Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto adapts the nonfiction account of former U.S. Marine Allen Nelson, who spoke about the brutalities he committed on the front and hardships he faced back home.
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‘It Will Happen Tonight’ Review: Italian Auteur Nanni Moretti’s See-Sawing Romance Is Passionate to a Fault
Louis Garrel and Jasmine Trinca play a pair of star-crossed lovers who keep putting off their affair until the coincidences (and hormones) take over.
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‘A Place to Heal’ Review: An Intensely Performed French Teen Psych Ward Drama That Shifts Uneasily Between Reality and Fiction
Writer, director and actor Cédric Kahn immersed himself in a psychiatric facility for this Venice competition entry about a group of adolescents coping with emotional disorders.
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‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile’ Review: War Rages On, as Does the Journalistic Resistance, in an Essential Chronicle of Reporters Under Fire
Director Julia Loktev follows a handful of independent Russian journalists forced to flee their country after the invasion of Ukraine in this follow-up to last year's 'Part I.'
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‘Too Much Sugar’ Review: A Lively and Authentic Portrait of Small-Town America, in Which the Characters Become Masters of Their Own Stories
Robert Greene's latest hybrid feature mixes documentary and fiction to focus on a pair of 40-something friends from Missouri, exposing hardships they face as ex-cons and fathers.
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‘The Runner’ Review: Gal Gadot Sprints Through a Ticking-Clock Thriller That’s Fun Enough if You Don’t Stop to Think About It Â
Kevin Macdonald ('Whitney,' 'The Last King of Scotland') directed this high-concept suspenser about a lawyer forced to run across London in order to save her kidnapped son.
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‘Mutiny’ Review: Jason Statham Anchors a Serviceable Maritime Action Flick That Just About Stays Afloat
Jean-François Richet ('Blood Father,' 'Plane') directed the latest bone-crunching entry in the Statham canon, set aboard a cargo ship heading out of Bangkok towards the high seas.
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The 25 Best Documentaries of All Time, Ranked
From 'Grey Gardens' to 'The Gleaners and I,' 'Gimme Shelter' to 'Grizzly Man' and beyond, THR critics pick their favorite non-fiction films of all time.
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 10 Best Films of 2026 So Far
Faves from the first half of the year include a breakout blast of horror, the latest from auteurs both pop (Spielberg) and art house (Dardennes), and a doc that brings The King back from the afterlife.
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