The retrospective of the 79th Locarno Film Festival dealt with one of the darker pages in Hollywood’s history.
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The 80th anniversary of the Czech film event was a suitably grand and celebratory affair.
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Our third and final report from the Tribeca Festival goes heavy on non-fiction, with mini-reviews of “Chris & Martina: The Final Set,” “Time Warp,” “Spin Wars,” “Odyssey,” and more.
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Our second report from Tribeca ’26 includes mini-reviews of “Act One,” “Lucy Schulman,” “The Accompanist,” and more.
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Our first report from Tribeca, with mini-reviews of “Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial VS That’s the Weight of the World),” “Bob and David Climb Machu Picchu,” and more
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The Los Angeles-based film fest celebrating “the cinema of despair” expands globally, bringing arthouse audiences together in shared misery.
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The 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival contained many stark reminders of a past that keeps threatening to return.
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One more report from Austin, with mini-reviews of “The Sun Never Sets,” “Pretty Lethal,” “Forbidden Fruits,” “DreamQuil,” and more.
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Our first report from Austin includes mini-reviews of “Chili Finger,” “Plantman and Blondie,” “We are the Shaggs,” and more gems from this year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival.
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The 76th edition of the German festival was its most controversial in years, but not really because of the films themselves.
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The 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam devoted one of its retrospectives to Japanese direct-to-video genre movies.
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Our final report from the just-concluded Sundance Film Festival includes mini-reviews of “Josephine,” “Soul Patrol,” “The Musical,” “Zi,” and more.
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