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The actress plays a depressed musician who bonds with an older Polish woman (Margaret Sophie Stein) in Lisa Steen's directorial debut, which premiered at SXSW.
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The 'Succession' star plays a mother whose relationship with her young daughter takes a turn for the fraught in Daina Reid's film.
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The actress plays a 17-year-old evangelical Christian who has an affair with her youth pastor (Lewis Pullman) in Laurel Parmet's feature debut.
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‘Nanny’: Film Review | Sundance 2022
Nikyatu Jusu's debut feature revolves around a Senegalese woman working as a nanny for a wealthy New York couple and haunted by frightening visions.
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The 'Girls' star-creator's new film focuses on a sexually inexperienced young Los Angeles woman having an affair with her older employer.
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‘Neptune Frost’: Film Review | TIFF 2021
Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman's Afro-futurist science fiction musical centers on two misfits in Rwanda, a miner and an intersex hacker, who find each other through technology and dreams.
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2021 (So Far)
THR's film reviewers pick faves from the first half of the year, including a South African drama about a gay soldier, a female buddy comedy featuring Kristen Wiig and an adaptation of an exotic dancer's tweetstorm about a nightmarish Florida road trip.
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Best Films From Sundance 2021: Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick 15 Favorites
A crowd-pleaser about a majority-deaf family, a drama about race in 1920s Harlem and docs about COVID-19, ‘Black Woodstock’ and the underwater photographer behind 'Jaws' are among the standouts from the (virtual) fest.
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David Gutnik’s debut feature 'Materna' tells the story of four women bound by a violent altercation on the New York City subway.
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‘MLK/FBI’: Film Review | TIFF 2020
Sam Pollard's documentary 'MLK/FBI' examines former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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‘Holler’: Film Review | TIFF 2020
Jessica Barden, Pamela Adlon and Becky Ann Baker star in Nicole Riegel's feature directorial debut 'Holler,' a coming-of-age tale set in working-class Ohio.
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