VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA —
CANNES, — It was a Cannes Film Festival that began on May 13 with Robert De Niro calling Donald Trump “America’s philistine president” — electrifying the European press at the Opening Ceremonies as the actor criticized Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center and proposed tariff on foreign-made films. And it was one that ended Saturday with the Palme d’Or going to the Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi for his political thriller “It Was Just an Accident.” Praising the pick,…
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"“Beau Is Afraid,” a mommy-obsessed magnum opus from elevated-horror auteur Ari Aster (“Hereditary,” “Midsommar”), opens with a therapy session, conducted virtually in real time, in which the title character — played by a balding, bleary-eyed Joaquin Phoenix — shares his anxieties with a sympathetic clinician (Stephen McKinley Henderson).
Beau is scheduled to leave the next day to visit his mother, a fraught proposition that leads to the shrink wondering aloud whether Beau has ever harbored matricidal fantasies; within a few…
"At long last, “Midsommar” asks the cinematic question we’ve all been waiting for: How, precisely, does one say “completely bonkers” in Swedish?" wrote Ann Hornaday in 2019.
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"Creepy, creepy, creepy. Writer-director Ari Aster makes an impressively unnerving debut with “Hereditary,” a meticulously crafted horror thriller starring Toni Collette," wrote Ann Hornaday in 2018.
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"Few filmmakers portray the Black American experience with so much heart and so little finesse as Tyler Perry. Doesn’t matter if his movies aren’t art — they reach an audience whether they’re comedies (his Madea movies), middle-class melodramas or period pieces like 2024’s World War II-era “The Six Triple Eight.” That last was a high point in a career of directing nearly 30 movies in 20 years, not counting Perry’s many TV shows and stage plays — a run of inspired workaholism that has made the writer-director one of the most financially successful filmmakers of his generation," writes Ty Burr.
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"Half a century after Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” stirred fear and fascination by painting sharks as bloodthirsty monsters of the sea, the tongue-in-cheek horror thriller “Dangerous Animals” gets its kicks watching a predator in cargo shorts and flip-flops — not one with a dorsal fin and sharp teeth — toying with his prey," writes Jen Yamato
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"Justin Kuritzkes’s ingenious screenplay is structured around a single tennis match in 2019 between top-seeded superstar Art Donaldson (Mike Faist) and tournament-circuit bum Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor), with flashbacks that slowly fill in a complicated backstory. Each time we return to that central game, our understanding of the players and the stakes has completely changed, so if you want the movie to properly uncork all its surprises, come back to this review after you’ve come home from the theater. I’d stay away from the film’s trailer, while you’re at it," wrote Ty Burr in 2024.
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"Celine Song makes a quietly spectacular writing-directing debut with “Past Lives,” a lyrical slow burn of a film that expertly holds back wellsprings of emotion, until it unleashes a deluge," wrote Ann Hornaday in 2023.
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"How’s de Armas? She handles the stunts with skill and enthusiasm, the acting chores less notably. (In her defense, Shay Hatten’s script is strictly functional, with all the best lines given to the colorful array of ing characters.) Besides the baroque action scenes and the franchise’s vision of a global steampunk bureaucracy of evil, the main asset of the John Wick movies has always been Wick himself, as played by Keanu Reeves with a Zen exhaustion that’s a rare and…
