More from Jon Frosch
The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of Sundance 2023
A deliciously juicy psychological thriller starring Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway, an Olympian’s stunning directorial debut and a spirited documentary portrait of Little Richard are among faves from the fest.
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‘Passages’ Review: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adele Exarchopoulos in Ira Sachs’ Searing Chronicle of Romantic Chaos
A German film director, his English husband and a Frenchwoman they meet at a club form a distorted love triangle in the indie filmmaker’s Paris-set drama.
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2022
A tragicomic Irish fable about male solitude, a twisty South Korean neo-noir, a tempestuous study in abuse of power and a quietly searing remembrance of father-daughter time top the year’s standouts.
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Critics’ Conversation: The Great Film Performances of 2022
The year in acting was particularly rich for women, from the brilliant Blanchett and the sublime Seydoux to breakouts like Danielle Deadwyler and astonishing non-English-language turns flying — frustratingly — under the radar.
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Critics’ Picks: Cate Blanchett, Steven Spielberg Films Among the 15 Best of the Fall Festivals
Career highs from Blanchett and Colin Farrell, new docs by Laura Poitras and Werner Herzog, and Spielberg's moving cine-memoir are among THR critics’ 15 favorites from Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘Other People’s Children’ Review: Virginie Efira Gives a Career-Best Turn in Rebecca Zlotowski’s Deft, Delicate Dramedy
Efira stars as a woman whose attachment to her boyfriend’s young daughter awakens unexpected maternal longing in this Venice competition entry from France.
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‘Monica’ Review: Trace Lysette Can’t Save Andrea Pallaoro’s Sluggish Study of Trans Alienation
Lysette plays a trans woman who returns home to care for her dying mother (Patricia Clarkson) in this Venice competition entry.
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick 20 Cannes Film Festival Favorites
A Queens-set memory piece from James Gray, a career best from Léa Seydoux, a devastating donkey story and a documentary about surgery that would make Cronenberg blush were among THR film critics' faves from the fest.
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Léa Seydoux in Mia Hansen-Love’s ‘One Fine Morning’: Film Review | Cannes 2022
The actress plays a single mom juggling an ailing father and a new lover in the latest from the writer-director of 'Bergman Island' and 'Things to Come.'
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Winona Ryder in ‘The Cow’: Film Review | SXSW 2022
The actress stars alongside Dermot Mulroney in Eli Horowitz's debut feature, a thriller about a woman whose boyfriend disappears under mysterious circumstances.
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‘A Love Song’: Film Review | Sundance 2022
Dale Dickey and Wes Studi play childhood sweethearts who meet up for a night at a Southwest Colorado campsite in Max Walker-Silverman's debut feature.
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2021
A Japanese meditation on grief and art, a psychosexual Western chamber piece, a splashy movie-musical makeover from Steven Spielberg and striking directorial debuts from Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Hall were among this year's standouts.
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