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Jordan Mintzer
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Jordan Mintzer is a contributing Paris-based Film Critic for The Hollywood Reporter. Prior to that, he wrote for Variety. His writings have also appeared in the French publications Les Cahiers du cinéma, Le Monde, So Film and Libération, and he is a regular guest on the French radio show On Aura Tout Vu. He is the author of three interview books — "Conversations with James Gray," "Conversations with Darius Khondji" and "Conversations with Dean Tavoularis" — and the producer of the feature films "Hamilton," "Putty Hill" and "Sollers Point." Mintzer grew up in Queens, N.Y., and has a BBA in Economics from Baruch College.
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‘Heil Jupiter!’ Review: Mexican Arthouse Auteur Carlos Reygadas Takes a Beguiling Cinematic Trip to Nowhere
The latest feature from the director of 'Silent Light' and 'Post Tenebras Lux' was shot across several continents in different languages, including one invented for the film.
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‘Dead Drop’ Review: A Contained High-Concept Horror Flick Whose Twists Captivate More Than Its Characters
The third feature from writer-director Ned Crowley ('Killing Faith') follows eight strangers who get caught in a freight elevator and face dire consequences.
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‘Kill Me Now’ Review: A Tired Hollywood Suspense Satire Riddled with Borscht Belt Humor
Mena Suvari, Balthazar Getty, Judd Nelson and Mira Sorvino make cameos in Michael Polish’s deadpan take on movies and murder, written by and starring Jacqueline Singer, which premiered at the Oldenburg Film Festival.
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‘Milo’ Review: Marion Cotillard Carries a Somber, Classically Made French Drama With Hints of Film Noir
Théodore Pellerin also stars in the latest feature by 80-year-old actress turned director Nicole Garcia ('My American Uncle'), which premiered in competition at San Sebastián.
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‘What Remains’ Review: A Slow-Burn, Subtly Powerful Portrait of a Creative Couple in Turkey Coming Back From the Brink
The latest feature from veteran writer-director Yesim Ustaoglu ('Clair Obscur') follows a poet and a musician facing major roadblocks on both a professional and personal level.
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‘Krux’ Review: An Extremely Bleak, Strikingly Realized Chronicle of a German Village at the End of World War II
German writer-director Tony Vahl's debut feature, set in a remote northeastern town while the Nazi regime crumbles, premiered in Toronto before playing in competition at San Sebastian.
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The Best Films of the Fall Festivals: THR Critics’ Picks
A shape-shifting Elizabeth Holmes doc, a star vehicle for Mahershala Ali, and new gems from Mike Leigh and Lee Chang-dong were among THR reviewers’ 13 favorite world premieres out of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘Back to Buenos Aires’ Review: A Brooding Drama Revisits the Violent Days of Argentina’s Dictatorship, and the Traumas That Remained in Its Wake
Director Marco Bechis drew from his experience as a survivor of the 1976 military coup for this story of a political prisoner who returns to the place of his torment 30 years later.
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‘Father Joe’ Review: Kiefer Sutherland and Al Pacino in a Holy Mess of an Action Flick
Luc Besson wrote and produced this high-concept, B-grade shoot-em-up about a gun-toting priest who takes on the New York crime world.
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‘One Minute to Midnight’ Review: A French Intellectual Takes Stock of His Love Life in a Film That’s Charming, Melancholic and Parisian to a Fault
Melvil Poupaud stars in the fourth feature by critic turned director Nicolas Pariser, who based some of the movie on his own past as a journalist.
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‘NAZA’ Review: A Sober and Indispensable Doc Highlights the Immoral, State-of-the-Art Killing Machine Employed by the IDF in Gaza Â
The Guardian served as producer, and Jonathan Glazer as executive producer, on this exposé by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, part of the directing team behind 2024 Oscar winner 'No Other Land.'
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‘Place to Be’ Review: Ellen Burstyn, Taika Waititi, Pamela Anderson and a Pigeon Star in a Strange, Sentimental, Occasionally Endearing Road Movie
The latest feature from Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó ('Pieces of a Woman') premiered out of competition in Venice.
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