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Rebecca Frecknall's scorching revival of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (now at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social) is very much director's theater — raw, combustible, even expressionistic. Yet the approach liberates rather than cramps her blazing cast, led by Paul Mescal, Patsy Ferran & Anjana Vasan. Superb.

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Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys are superb in HALLOW ROAD, an intense parental nightmare than blurs the line between psychological thriller and mythic horror. The #SXSW2025 premiere is Babak Anvari's best film since his stunning breakthrough, UNDER THE SHADOW www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Jay Duplass' THE BALTIMORONS, premiering at #SXSW2025, is a stealth charmer, folding a Christmas Eve all-night odyssey with an AFTER HOURS vibe into a gentle May-December romance. Lovely stuff, with disarming work from leads Michael Strassner and Liz Larsen. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Did Netflix really hand the Russo brothers $320 million to make THE ELECTRIC STATE, a soulless retro-futuristic sci-fi adventure designed to be half-watched by many and then never spoken of again? Sure looks like it. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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It may not quite match the pleasures of KIMI or PRESENCE, Steven Soderbergh's last two collaborations with screenwriter David Koepp, but BLACK BAG is a stylish, seductive spy thriller led by lip-smacking turns from Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Happy to join my esteemed THR colleagues in this round-up of bad Oscar calls, especially because I will NEVER not be mad about CRASH winning best picture over BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. "John Wayne would have despised it" is a big thumbs-up if you ask me. www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/times-...

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Some thoughts on the great Gene Hackman and on three personal favorites from his wide-ranging filmography: THE CONVERSATION, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS and a guilty (but not really) pleasure from my childhood, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. RIP to a giant of an actor www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Ahead of Sunday night's Oscar ceremony, my THR colleague Scott Feinberg predicts the winners and I weigh in with my thoughts on the most deserving. Hopefully, there's room for some upsets (go FLOW). www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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If I were in retreat from life on a flood-prone island in the North Sea, I’d definitely want Hanna Schygulla running the guesthouse. YUNAN, an evocative mood piece about displacement, delivers that and more. #berlinale2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Korean DIY master Hong Sang-soo is in peak form with WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU, a meet-the-parents occasion that goes South before dessert. Wonderful stuff. #Berlinale2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Another #Berlinale2025 competition standout, DREAMS is a layered queer coming-of-age story that completes gifted Norwegian writer-director Dag Johan Haugerud's insightful and often dryly funny SEX/LOVE/DREAMS trilogy on a high note. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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'Tis the season of maternal angst — after NIGHTBITCH & IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU comes MOTHER'S BABY, a neonatal nightmare led by a fiercely compelling Marie Leuenberger, with Claes Bang in devilish form as a suave but shady fertility wizard. #Berlinale2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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If watching 6'4" Lee Pace slip off his size 12 shoes and get his toes sucked appeals, you might find something of interest in AFTER THIS DEATH, a Lynch-lite mystery that also stars Mía Maestro, Rupert Friend and Gwendoline Christie. #Berlinale2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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How fitting that in BLUE MOON, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater, who have a 30-year collaboration history, make a beautifully observed character study of Lorenz Hart, an artist watching as his longtime creative partner achieves greater success without him. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Completely adored Gabriel Mascaro’s gorgeous aquatic road movie THE BLUE TRAIL, an anti-ageism fable from Brazil that harnesses the transformative powers of the Amazon. For me, the #Berlinale2025 competition standout www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Sam Riley, Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing do strong work in ISLANDS, a sun-blasted, noir-adjacent psychodrama drenched in atmosphere that lets its tension slacken in a protracted wrap-up but remains very watchable. My review from #Berlinale75 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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The always terrific John Magaro playing Keith Jarrett in the story behind the landmark improvised piano recording 'The Köln Concert' had me curious, but the headliner keeps getting shortchanged in the frustrating KÖLN 75. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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The best thing I've seen at #Berlinale2025 so far is a TV series — Justin Kurzel's soulful contemplation of the losses of love and war, THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH, led by a knockout performance from Jacob Elordi. Riveting stuff www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-review...

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Loving the ongoing collaboration between Michel Franco and Jessica Chastain. After the relative tenderness of MEMORY, their second film together, DREAMS, is a scalding test of the barriers between selfless love & privilege. #Berlinale2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Bong Joon Ho's MICKEY 17 is a scattershot dark sci-fi comedy which fans of the goofier end of the Korean filmmaker's spectrum will enjoy, not least for a droll double-role turn from Robert Pattinson. #Berlinale2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw and Vicky Krieps do what they can, but screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz's directing debut, HOT MILK, is an inert mother-daughter psychological drama that runs no risk of boiling over. My review of the #Berlinale2025 competition entry www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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My first review out of #Berlinale75 is the return to features of Tom Tykwer with THE LIGHT, an unwieldy reflection on 21st century humanity that for me mostly flails around in the dark. Hoping the opener doesn't set the tone for the rest of the festival 🙏 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Thought I’d grown allergic to Renée Zellweger’s tics in this role, but BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY’s tender undertow of grief & its heart-tugging view of happy re-emergence snuck up on me. MVPs: Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Chiwetel Ejiofor & Leo Woodall www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Devoured the first 6 Season 3 episodes of THE WHITE LOTUS, another juicy demolition of white privilege that gets considerably darker. Ensemble standouts: Jason Isaacs; the trio of Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon & Leslie Bibb; Aimee Lee Wood channeling Shelley Duvall; and Natasha Rothwell, of course!

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The jaded cynic in me wanted to resist THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND (opening March 28) but it's hard not to fall for its minor-key charms. Tom Basden & Tim Key make a disarming pair and Carey Mulligan adds texture in a lovely supporting role. #Sundance2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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A superbly matched Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe square off over the porous divide between fame and obsessive fandom in Alex Russell's electric debut, LURKER. #Sundance2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Psyched for BLACK BAG, the new Soderbergh in theaters March 14. Again written by David Koepp, his collaborator on KIMI and one of last year's #Sundance highlights, the unsettling ghost story PRESENCE, which is in theaters now and well worth your time.

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Newcomer Carmen Emmi's direction is a bit fussy for my taste, but PLAINCLOTHES is a riveting story about two closeted men on either side of a gay-baiting sting operation, played with moving intensity by Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey. #Sundance2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Alison Brie and Dave Franco put a freaky spin on codependency in Australian director Michael Shanks' debut, TOGETHER, the midnight date movie for people who didn’t get enough bodily mutations and elasticized skin from THE SUBSTANCE. A fun time. #Sundance2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Enjoyed Andrew Ahn’s reimagined queer comedy of manners THE WEDDING BANQUET, even if its energy flags here and there. A terrific ensemble, with scene-stealing work from Joan Chen & MINARI Oscar winner Youn Yuh-Jung. #Sundance2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Ira Sachs' ballsy experiment, PETER HUJAR'S DAY, is a uniquely beautiful study of a queer artist and his early '70s downtown NYC milieu. One of the director's best. Ben Whishaw is astounding and Rebecca Hall is with him every step. Loved this. #Sundance2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Mixed feelings about Bill Condon's film of the Kander & Ebb musical KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, but there's much that's seductive, starting with Diego Luna, a revelatory Tonatiuh & a dazzling Jennifer Lopez in the scene-stealing title role. #Sundance2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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