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In her delightful 2017 directing debut, Booksmart, Olivia Wilde brought insouciant freshness and a sensibility both sweet and dirty to the well-worn coming-of-age comedy. That kind…

There’s the sort of artistic failure that can only be made by incredibly talented people — misfires, but misfires of audacity and ambition, unsuccessful attempts to…

In a Whisper (À voix basse) is a fitting title for Tunisian director Leyla Bouzid’s quietly effective third feature, which depicts the struggles of gays and…

Full credits Production: Redwire Pictures, Lane E Productions, Drax Productions, True Brit Entertainment, Illium PicturesDistributor: LionsgateCast: Sophie Turner, Kit Harington, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurence O’FuarainDirector-screenwriter: Natasha…

An alarmed glance at the near future, DreamQuil is set in a world where the air is unbreathable and most human interactions are virtual. It’s also…

Filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov seems determined to make us look at screens when we go to the movies. Several of his films, including Unfriended, Searching and Profile…

The British Isles can be treacherously vulnerable to twee overload in movies, though last year’s The Ballad of Wallis Island showed that it can be avoided,…

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Cristian Mungiu’s films invariably deal with social, cultural and moral divisions, uneasy truths, ethical dilemmas and unjust compromises. In his latest, Fjord, the Romanian New Wave auteur…

A men’s prison full of lifers mostly in for murder, with a special cell block for seniors with degenerative neurological conditions? Sounds like a double-whammy downer.…