This movie season has given us three sensational political thrillers including Jafar Panahi’s battle cry against Iran’s theocratic regime in the Palme d’Or winning It Was Just an Accident andKleber Mendonca Filho’s The Secret Agent rebuke of Brazil’s military dictatorship and its power to assassinate the lives and…
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Filmmaker Mona Fastvold’s unconventional The Testament of Ann Lee is a striking origin story of the Shaker religious movement, its titular founder played by Amanda Seyfried in an enigmatic portrait of emotional, physical and spiritual conviction. Set in the mid-1700s, Fastvold’s epic charts the…
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The degree to which Marty Supreme—Josh Safdie’s live-wire tale of American gumption and hustle, starring Timothée Chalamet in a career performance—works for you is likely to depend on how you feel about Chalamet himself. If you plug into the star’s rich commitment to craft, you’ll…
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