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4 天之前 · “Suze” has a clear set-up. With the set-up comes moments of contrivance which can be spotted from the next block. But the film, co-directed and co-written by Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart, has an eccentric spirit and an individualistic streak underlined by the very human performances and a nuanced script filled with unexpected moments.

4 天之前 · Sorrentino’s previously best-known works—like “The Great Beauty,” his magnum opus of decay in decadence, and ornately absurd HBO series “The Young Pope” and “The New Pope,” its successor—saw spiritual emptiness beneath the eternal city’s extravagant surfaces. In shifting his focus from Rome to Naples, the birthplace his cinema only recently returned to with the …

2025年2月3日 · From the beginning, Perkins is playing with tone in a way that separates “The Monkey” from his more serious, somber fare. If the grindhouse credits font doesn’t give it away, the sight of a bloodied Adam Scott carrying a toy monkey should. Eschewing an origin story to cold open with a shattered man who now fears a child’s plaything is a brilliant tone-setter, both …

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2025年1月24日 · At first Rose grieves the loss of her husband, sitting shiva with her friends and family, sacrificing a piece of frozen meat so as not to curse her youngest son Léon (Damien Chapelle), who still lives at home and is caught up in some legal troubles.Soon, her grief overwhelms her. She stops washing her hair or doing much of anything, causing great concern …

2024年12月24日 · Who is Robbie Williams? Sure, it’s the question most Yanks might ask when given the elevator pitch to “Better Man,” the latest from “The Greatest Showman” director Michael Gracey. (His meteoric success in the UK, both as a member of British boy band Take That and his own chart-topping solo career, never quite translated across the pond.)

2024年12月24日 · “A Complete Unknown” opens with a recording by Woody Guthrie, one of the main influences on a young Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet), who we meet on his way to introduce himself to the man whose work “struck him to the ground.”Guthrie, played by Scoot McNairy, is in a hospital in Jersey, and he happens to be visited by the legendary Pete Seeger …

2025年1月10日 · “Disfluency” is adapted from a 2018 short written by Baumgarten and directed by Laura Holliday, and it often suffers from that lengthening. There are two wolves battling for supremacy inside Baumgarten’s script: The warm, family-oriented indie dramedy full of quirky twentysomethings who say things like “I’m exclusively on the ‘Gram now,” and the more …

2024年9月27日 · When the war begins, Miller gets a photography job with British Vogue, which has been directed “to encourage the women of Britain to do their duty” by bringing the urgency of what’s happening into the pages of a fashion magazine.At first, she takes pictures of the Blitz, “bombs, chaos, but everyone carried on, and I did what I could to capture it.”