Nicolas Rapold

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Suspended Time: an affectingly vulnerable lockdown chronicle

Olivier Assayas works in the key of love and continuity for a lightly fictionalised account of his pandemic experience.

By Nicolas Rapold

Suspended Time: an affectingly vulnerable lockdown chronicle

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Architecton: a daunting look at the rubble of our existence

By Nicolas Rapold

Architecton: a daunting look at the rubble of our existence

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I Saw the TV Glow: a rough portrait of fanatical obsession

By Nicolas Rapold

I Saw the TV Glow: a rough portrait of fanatical obsession

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Look Into My Eyes: exquisitely made documentary about New York City psychics puts compassion before cynicism

By Nicolas Rapold

Look Into My Eyes: exquisitely made documentary about New York City psychics puts compassion before cynicism

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Love Lies Bleeding: this bodybuilding melodrama is a film of passionate extremes

By Nicolas Rapold

Love Lies Bleeding: this bodybuilding melodrama is a film of passionate extremes

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Presence: this suburban ghost story is one of Steven Soderbergh’s best go-for-broke experiments yet

By Nicolas Rapold

Presence: this suburban ghost story is one of Steven Soderbergh’s best go-for-broke experiments yet

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Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World: Radu Jude’s twisted workplace realities

By Nicolas Rapold

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World: Radu Jude’s twisted workplace realities

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Evil Does Not Exist: Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s beguiling ecological drama

By Nicolas Rapold

Evil Does Not Exist: Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s beguiling ecological drama

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The Killer: David Fincher’s normcore assassin unnerves and entertains

By Nicolas Rapold

The Killer: David Fincher’s normcore assassin unnerves and entertains

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Aggro Dr1ft: Harmony Korine finds new ways to freak us out with his mashed-up media experiment

By Nicolas Rapold

Aggro Dr1ft: Harmony Korine finds new ways to freak us out with his mashed-up media experiment

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Youth (Spring): Wang Bing’s lengthy documentary captures the endless toil and strength of garment factory workers

By Nicolas Rapold

Youth (Spring): Wang Bing’s lengthy documentary captures the endless toil and strength of garment factory workers

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Club Zero: this ambiguous boarding school drama feels strangely one-note

By Nicolas Rapold

Club Zero: this ambiguous boarding school drama feels strangely one-note

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The Zone of Interest: Jonathan Glazer returns with a haunting adaptation of Martin Amis’s Holocaust novel

By Nicolas Rapold

The Zone of Interest: Jonathan Glazer returns with a haunting adaptation of Martin Amis’s Holocaust novel

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Inside: this Ballardian high-concept experiment is an intriguing anti-caper

By Nicolas Rapold

Inside: this Ballardian high-concept experiment is an intriguing anti-caper

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Reality: a hyperreal study of an interrogation

By Nicolas Rapold

Reality: a hyperreal study of an interrogation

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Beyond Utopia: Korea opportunities are thin on the ground for this family in flight

By Nicolas Rapold

Beyond Utopia: Korea opportunities are thin on the ground for this family in flight

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Passages: Ira Sachs imbues the messiness of love and lust with grace

By Nicolas Rapold

Passages: Ira Sachs imbues the messiness of love and lust with grace

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A Still Small Voice: this luminous life-and-death documentary stands out in a crowded field

By Nicolas Rapold

A Still Small Voice: this luminous life-and-death documentary stands out in a crowded field

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Don’t Worry Darling: a bland, second-hand suburbia satire

By Nicolas Rapold

Don’t Worry Darling: a bland, second-hand suburbia satire

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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: a remarkable portrait of power and protest

By Nicolas Rapold

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: a remarkable portrait of power and protest

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A Couple: a short but sweet character study

By Nicolas Rapold

A Couple: a short but sweet character study

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War Pony: a picaresque portrait of young Native American lives

By Nicolas Rapold

War Pony: a picaresque portrait of young Native American lives

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Showing Up: a typically patient portrait of an artist by Kelly Reichardt

By Nicolas Rapold

Showing Up: a typically patient portrait of an artist by Kelly Reichardt

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Stars at Noon: Claire Denis trawls a hell less spellbinding with her American in Nicaragua

By Nicolas Rapold

Stars at Noon: Claire Denis trawls a hell less spellbinding with her American in Nicaragua

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Navalny is a Russian spy thriller dressed up as a documentary

By Nicolas Rapold

Navalny is a Russian spy thriller dressed up as a documentary

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The Tragedy of Macbeth forgoes medieval dankness for a stark and claustrophobic adaptation

By Nicolas Rapold

The Tragedy of Macbeth forgoes medieval dankness for a stark and claustrophobic adaptation

Best of 2021

2021: the year in US film

By Nicolas Rapold

2021: the year in US film

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The Power of the Dog draws out the instability of the American West’s handed-down myths

By Nicolas Rapold

The Power of the Dog draws out the instability of the American West’s handed-down myths

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The Year of the Everlasting Storm forges international bonds with a pandemic-era anthology

By Nicolas Rapold

The Year of the Everlasting Storm forges international bonds with a pandemic-era anthology