Emma Seligman, whose 2020 debut Shiva Baby, a zinger of an anxious comedy about an aimless Manhattan collegiate “sugar baby” in an identity crisis during a shiva, turns impressive satirist with her sophomore picture Bottoms—a radically “queer” high school comedy that plays like a mash up…
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Ira Sachs’ Passages, about a Parisian menage-a-not between an egoist filmmaker, played with zeal by the great German actor Franz Rogowski, his long-suffering partner (Ben Whishaw) and a schoolteacher (Adele Exarchopolous) drawn into his orbit, is a lusty provocation about modern love warfare and…
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