Two-time Palme d’Or winners Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne are in town this week, as the kicks off a two-week career retrospective (including rare early work) starting today. I’ll be moderating the Q&A after LA PROMESSE on Sunday afternoon.
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Cinemasochist extraordinaire. Watches bad movies so you don't have to, and good ones so you can, too.
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I’m not a professional Oscar prognosticator, but agree with you that AIR feels like a story they’ll love. As Deloris Jordan (this movie’s King Richard), Viola Davis certainly deserves a nom.
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Following AIR premiere, feel like this is worth a bump twitter.com/krolljvar/stat…
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Here’s what I was watching while the rest of the world’s attention was on the Oscars: a sneak preview of Robert Rodriguez’s inventive thriller HYPNOTIC at #SXSW
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What began as a chance to see an essential Sondheim show became a mini-education in the composer’s oeuvre and influences.
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My mother died just before Christmas. BACK TO THE FUTURE was her favorite movie and her hero after he came out with early-onset Parkinson's a few years before she was diagnosed with same. Needless to say, seeing STILL was a special experience.
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With clone-smothering fist fights and cum-shot close-ups, INFINITY POOL is one of the weirdest films I've ever seen at #Sundance — but what else would you expect from POSSESSOR director Brandon Cronenberg?
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It's hard to imagine #Sundance2023 offering a film I'll adore more than Celine Song's lovely, quietly devastating PAST LIVES.
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This year's COVID-cautious #SundanceFilmFestival kicks off with a quiet sigh, featuring Daisy Ridley as a workplace wallflower in connection-seeking indie drama SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING.
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RRR. Somewhere Michael Bay is scratching his head saying, “Where was the enthusiasm when I pulled all those stunts?” Or maybe AMBULANCE just needed a dance number.
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If I were to start my most 2022 overrated film list, I’d probably head off with BANSHEES OF INISHERIN. What else belongs on it?
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I'm loving the Oscar shortlists for Best Documentary & International Feature. SAINT OMER & CORSAGE are my two top foreign films of the year (alongside 2022 contender PLAYGROUND), while DESCENDANT, FIRE OF LOVE & NAVALNY nearly made my top 10.
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Variety names The Wizard of Oz (1939) as the 2nd greatest movie of all time 👠🔮🪄
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This took a village to put together. Enjoy The 100 Greatest movies of All Time brought to you by . Some of my faves include, Kramer vs. Kramer, My Neighbor Totoro, Do The Right Thing, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and more.
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What do you get when you bring together the shared movie love of three dozen colleagues & critics? The first-ever "Greatest Movies of All Time" list from the 117-year-old showbiz institution. Let the debates begin!
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The opening party is a stunner, and there are plenty more scenes to remember, but Damien Chazelle's 309-minute maximalist BABYLON struggles to find a point of view among its characters, far overstaying its welcome.
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Thirteen years ago, James Cameron's AVATAR broke a visual barrier in cinema that few, if any, have been able to follow. Now along comes the first of four sequels, and it's more of the same, minus the thrill of discovery. In short, if you've seen one AVATAR, you've seen 'em all.
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The new Hayao Miyazaki movie has a release date (in Japan, at least). A good time to remind that the "retired" anime master also has another movie up his sleeve after this one (to be directed by someone else). variety.com/lists/best-stu
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The new feature film from director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli has been announced! HOW DO YOU LIVE (tentative title) opens in theaters in Japan on July 14, 2023. twitter.com/JP_GHIBLI/stat…
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TÁR and EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE tie for Best Picture from . EO wins best Film Film Not in the English Language (with SAINT OMER as runner up).
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TÁR but not AVATAR. AFTER YANG but not AFTERSUN. YOU WON'T BE ALONE but not BONES AND ALL. It's top 10 list time!
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Here are 99 movies to sink your teeth into at 2023, which will be available both online and in person in Park City this January. (Shout-outs to Directors to Watch MAGAZINE DREAMS, THE STARLING GIRL and JOYLAND.) #Sundance
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A record 27 toons submitted for the Oscar international feature race. Which five will make the cut? Here's my rundown of the contenders:
In the spirit of the eye-opening portrait that inspired it, Antoine Fuqua's EMANCIPATION confronts audiences with harrowing images of inhumanity — and an overall message of hope.
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Amen!
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This year and every year: it’s pretty insane that we, film writers, are forced to accept there are 11 and not 12 months in a year. Two more weeks (heck, just one more week) and I’d be up to speed with most little and big things I somehow missed. Alas…
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Variety's 10 Directors to Watch include two from Cannes, two from Venice/Toronto and six that are set to premiere in 2023. They're all going to the moon!
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BIG NEWS: The new 4K release of PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES contains the legendary 75 minutes of deleted scenes that have been whispered about for decades. Finally, witness John Candy smoke and eat a hot dog at the same time.
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Whoa. Wow.
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You’re trying to complicate things. My point on the Best International Feature award: Whatever the Academy decides its rules are for other categories should apply to this one.
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So, @AskDebruge, does every foreign film that airs on a streamer qualify for Oscar?
Asking for a friend…
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You hear a lot about “don’t California my Texas,“ but I gotta say: the youth vote suppression here in Texas truly sucks. I feel so badly for my young Texas friends who are trying to vote here. Let me count the ways it’s almost surgically designed to keep them from voting. /1
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But what about the married ones? ;)
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Every single man in Belfast has a beard.
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The Animation Is Film Festival returns to LA this week, kicking off with Henry Selick's stop-motion WENDELL & WILD and extending through 10/29 for the US premiere of Guillermo del Toro's PINOCCHIO. Check out the lineup & join us:
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With too-smart-for-its-own-good AMSTERDAM, David O. Russell unearths a botched conspiracy from America's past and (as is his wont) tries to make it seem as unwieldy and complicated as possible.
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There was only one public screening of Vera Drew's renegade #TIfF22 Midnight Madness movie THE PEOPLE'S JOKER. And I was there!
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After a career spent defining how the quintessential American family looks and acts, Steven Spielberg turns the cameras on his own dysfunctional clan in long, loving THE FABELMANS. #TIFF22
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Viola Davis for president. Or Queen Elizabeth's replacement. Is there anything this WOMAN KING can't do? #TIFF22
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I'm delighted that BROS exists, but refuse to pretend that dozens of indie movies didn't come before to pave the way for this very funny (and incredibly self-absorbed) gay romcom. #TIFF22
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It's opening night of the Toronto Film Festival's big comeback 2022 edition — in person and all together again — and my greatest hope for the seemingly overloaded lineup is to find a film that's anywhere near as much fun as BARBARIAN, which opens tomorrow.
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Robert Downey Jr. says farewell to his underground director dad in strange, shaggy SR., a surprisingly intimate look at an unconventional showbiz family. #Telluride
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Ladies and gentlemen, meet the founding foremothers of a brave new world in Sarah Polley's powerful WOMEN TALKING. #TellurideFilmFestival
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It’s day one of the Telluride (Documentary) Film Festival, and I’m glad to be back, even if there are only four narrative world premieres to be found in the lineup.
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