The New York Times – Film:
A family navigates the year after parents separate in this funny, surrealist Icelandic drama.
Author: Alissa Wilkinson
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Documentary Oscar Nominees Resist Authority in Different Ways
The New York Times – Film:
Reflecting the power of nonfiction filmmaking, each contender involves subjects and even directors resisting authority in different ways.
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‘H Is for Hawk’ Review: All Shall Be Well
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Claire Foy stars along with a goshawk in an adaptation of Helen MacDonald’s award-winning memoir.
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‘Seeds’ Review: Farms and a Way of Life Hang in the Balance
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The director Brittany Shyne’s film is slow-moving and lyrical in its focus on the seasonal rhythms of the work, even as it shifts to policy concerns.
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‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Review: Sympathy for the Devil
The New York Times – Film:
The latest installment in the zombie saga is all about evil and good, and whether any of it exists.
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‘Young Mothers’ Review: Teen Parents, Breaking Cycles
The New York Times – Film:
The Dardenne brothers’ latest film is a tender portrait of four teenage moms in a Belgian maternity shelter.
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To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Question Filmmakers Can’t Resist
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The Shakespearean monologue that is featured twice in “Hamnet” has long informed the movies, often in surprising ways that can make us rethink the words.
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‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: A Woman Clothed With the Sun
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In an extraordinary performance, Amanda Seyfried plays the founder of the Shakers in a singular film.
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‘The Plague’ Review: Pool of the Flies
The New York Times – Film:
A stunner of a debut film follows a group of boys at a water polo camp, where an outsider is just trying to fit in.