Jessica Kiang
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A Different Man: a discomfiting but darkly hilarious story of a man with two faces
Sebastian Stan stars as an actor whose face is transformed by an experimental treatment for his genetic condition in Aaron Schimberg’s mischievously meta doppelganger tale.
By Jessica Kiang
A Different Man: a discomfiting but darkly hilarious story of a man with two faces
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Spaceman: Adam Sandler and an alien spider embark on a mission to Jupiter in this dull sci-fi
By Jessica Kiang
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Small Things like These: this grimy, moving portrait of 1980s Ireland knows the power of restraint
By Jessica Kiang
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Maestro: a superbly acted biopic that’s disappointingly vague on Leonard Bernstein’s music
By Jessica Kiang
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Priscilla: Sofia Coppola’s ethereal, interior portrait of Priscilla Presley’s troubled years with Elvis
By Jessica Kiang
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Poor Things: a film that gives pleasure in every fantastical frame
By Jessica Kiang
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In Camera: an ambitious showbiz satire
By Jessica Kiang
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Small, Slow But Steady: this introspective boxing drama avoids the usual clichés of the genre
By Jessica Kiang
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La Chimera: a joyous, masterful work of folk magic
By Jessica Kiang
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Anatomy of a Fall: a sharply intelligent psychological drama from Justine Triet
By Jessica Kiang
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Killers of the Flower Moon: Martin Scorsese’s latest is an increasingly enthralling true-crime epic
By Jessica Kiang
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Suzume: this beautifully bonkers anime threatens to frazzle the synapses
By Jessica Kiang
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Manodrome: this unedifying portrait of toxic masculinity rings hollow
By Jessica Kiang
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Tótem: a dazzling, vibrant child’s-eye view of jubilation and tragedy
By Jessica Kiang
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BlackBerry: this biting tech-world satire reminds us that we all might be dinosaurs in waiting
By Jessica Kiang
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La Syndicaliste: an oddly flavourless, distractingly shot procedural
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The Whale: a miraculous Brendan Fraser narrowly saves this dolorous dirge
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The Damned Don’t Cry: a potent Moroccan mother-and-son drama
By Jessica Kiang
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The Listener: a stolid single-location drama
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Argentina 1985: a robust case for the virtues of the traditional courtroom drama
By Jessica Kiang
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Master Gardener: an uncharacteristically hopeful offering from Paul Schrader
By Jessica Kiang
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Padre Pio: no sin deserves the penance of this unholy mess
By Jessica Kiang
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Tommy Guns: a stunning second feature from Carlos Conceição
By Jessica Kiang
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Stone Turtle: a Malaysian Groundhog Day folk tale
By Jessica Kiang
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Pleasure: porn-world pic whose protagonist is less compelling than her milieu
By Jessica Kiang
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The Worst Person in the World captures one woman’s late-twenties in a swirl of sunsets, cigarettes and sunrises
By Jessica Kiang
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The Novelist’s Film: Hong Sangsoo celebrates the casual, sensual and spontaneous pleasures of life
By Jessica Kiang