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
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I Saw the TV Glow: a rough portrait of fanatical obsession
By Nicolas Rapold
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Look Into My Eyes: exquisitely made documentary about New York City psychics puts compassion before cynicism
By Nicolas Rapold
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Love Lies Bleeding: this bodybuilding melodrama is a film of passionate extremes
By Nicolas Rapold
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Presence: this suburban ghost story is one of Steven Soderbergh’s best go-for-broke experiments yet
By Nicolas Rapold
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Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World: Radu Jude’s twisted workplace realities
By Nicolas Rapold
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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
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Aggro Dr1ft: Harmony Korine finds new ways to freak us out with his mashed-up media experiment
By Nicolas Rapold
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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
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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
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Reality: a hyperreal study of an interrogation
By Nicolas Rapold
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Beyond Utopia: Korea opportunities are thin on the ground for this family in flight
By Nicolas Rapold
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Passages: Ira Sachs imbues the messiness of love and lust with grace
By Nicolas Rapold
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A Still Small Voice: this luminous life-and-death documentary stands out in a crowded field
By Nicolas Rapold
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Don’t Worry Darling: a bland, second-hand suburbia satire
By Nicolas Rapold
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: a remarkable portrait of power and protest
By Nicolas Rapold
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A Couple: a short but sweet character study
By Nicolas Rapold
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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
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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
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The Tragedy of Macbeth forgoes medieval dankness for a stark and claustrophobic adaptation
By Nicolas Rapold
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The Power of the Dog draws out the instability of the American West’s handed-down myths
By Nicolas Rapold
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The Year of the Everlasting Storm forges international bonds with a pandemic-era anthology
By Nicolas Rapold