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Lesley Manville and Ciaran Hinds play an Irish married couple dealing with quiet resentments in this staid drama.
Author: Natalia Winkelman
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‘By Design’ Review: She’s Getting the Chair
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Juliette Lewis plays a woman whose soul inhabits a bespoke armchair in Amanda Kramer’s cinematic specialty item.
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‘Jimpa’ Review: In Search of a Queer Education
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A nonbinary teenager pays a visit to their grandfather, a gay professor, in this intergenerational story that slips from sweet into cloying.
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‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Review: Indoctrination in the Classroom
The New York Times – Film:
A primary schoolteacher in Russia documents the government’s efforts to teach students pro-war messages.
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‘Sound of Falling’ Review: A Fortress of Feminine Mysteries
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This detour-heavy film moves across time periods to follow girlhood mischief, desire and abuse on a German farm.
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‘We Bury the Dead’ Review: A Down Under Twist on the Zombie Flick
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Daisy Ridley plays a woman who hopes her husband will spring back to life after a tragedy annihilates the population of Tasmania.
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‘Goodbye June’ Review: Terms of Endearment, and Estrangement
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Kate Winslet directs a formulaic script by her son, Joe Anders, about a dying matriarch and her quarreling adult children.
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‘Fackham Hall’ Review: Keep Calm and Chuckle On
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Clever sight gags jazz up this “Downton Abbey” sendup about a bookish aristocrat under pressure to marry her first cousin.
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‘Left-Handed Girl’ Review: An Electric Portrait of Taipei
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The filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou tells a sensitive story of a mother and her two daughters struggling to get by in Taiwan.