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‘Cabo Negro’ Review: A Wispy, Morocco-Set Tale of Youth, Sex and Boredom
Two young people encounter various strangers while spending time in a beach resort in Abdellah Taia's sophomore feature.
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‘Second Chance’ Review: Graceful Drama Traces an Indian Woman’s Post-Trauma Journey
A young woman recovers from an abortion by escaping to a remote Himalayan village in Subhadra Mahajan's Karlovy Vary-premiering debut feature.
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‘Tiny Lights’ Review: Empathetic Czech Drama Sees the World Through a Child’s Eyes
A six-year-old girl spends a day dealing with various concerns while unaware of familial turmoil in Beata Parkanova's Karlovy Vary-premiering feature.
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‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ Review: Eddie Murphy Is Back on the Streets in Routine Netflix Sequel Low on New Ideas
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Taylour Paige also star in the return of the wise-ass Detroit detective, 40 years after the original and 30 years after the last franchise installment.
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‘Loveable’ Review: An Incisive and Nuanced Norwegian Marital Drama
A woman discovers herself when her relationship with her husband unravels in Lilja Ingolfsdottir's debut feature, premiering at Karlovy Vary.
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‘Real’ Review: Grueling Documentary Captures Footage From Russia-Ukraine Battle
Premiering at Karlovy Vary, Oleh Sentsov's film is composed of 90 minutes accidentally shot by the director's helmet camera during a Russo-Ukrainian War battle.
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‘Night Has Come’ Review: A Visceral Documentary About Elite Peruvian Military Recruits
Paolo Tizan's Karlovy Vary-bowing film chronicles the efforts of young men training to serve in an area where drug trafficking takes place.
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‘Despicable Me 4’ Review: Gru’s Family Grows in Illumination Animation That Serves Up Familiar Antics
Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig are joined by Joey King, Stephen Colbert and Chloe Fineman in the latest franchise installment, co-written by Mike White.
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‘A Family Affair’ Review: Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron in a Netflix Rom-Com That Charms Despite Missteps
The Richard LaGravenese-directed film centers on a widowed middle-aged writer having an affair with a younger movie star — who happens to be her daughter's boss.
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‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Review: Lupita Nyong’o Navigates a Waking Nightmare for a Pizza in Nail-Biting Horror Prequel
Writer-director Michael Sarnoski follows his head-turning debut, ‘Pig,’ with this third chapter of the hit sci-fi franchise, also starring Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff and Djimon Hounsou.
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‘MaXXXine’ Review: Mia Goth and Ti West’s Slasher Trilogy Wraps With a Torrid Love Letter to ‘80s Genre Filmmaking
Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon also star in this Tinseltown-set follow-up to ‘X’ and ‘Pearl.’
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‘I’m Your Venus’ Review: A Poignant Doc Revisits ‘Paris Is Burning’ and Gives a Trans Icon Her Flowers
In her latest film, Kimberly Reed ('Dark Money') follows the biological and ballroom families of Venus Xtravaganza as they try to solve the mystery of her murder and honor her legacy.
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Critic’s Notebook: A New Wave of Films Experiments With How We See Climate Change
From Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Evil Does Not Exist' to Ramata-Toulaye Sy's 'Banel & Adama,' indie films are representing climate change as an ongoing negotiation between humans and the environment instead of a single catastrophic event.
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‘It Was All a Dream’ Review: Compelling dream hampton Memoir Mines the Past to Make a Case for Documenting the Present
In her latest feature, the veteran music journalist and filmmaker delves into her personal archives to tell the story of hip hop as a nascent genre, surveying its biggest artists and fervent custodians.
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‘The Big Bend’ Review: An Alluring and Intimate Drama Steeped in Edge-of-the-World Peril
Writer-director Brett Wagner’s feature zeroes in on two young families whose getaway to a remote corner of Texas veers into rough terrain.
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‘Trigger Warning’ Review: Jessica Alba Has the Moves but Netflix Action Thriller Is Strictly Routine
A former Special Forces commando runs into trouble when she returns to her hometown in Mouly Surya's female-driven star vehicle.
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