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Hollywood Reporter Film Critics Pick 10 Underseen 2021 Gems
Queer dramas from South Africa and Israel, a batty French buddy comedy and a Japanese spy thriller are among THR reviewers’ favorite overlooked films of the year.
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‘Zeros and Ones’: Film Review
Ethan Hawke plays a rogue American soldier caught up in murky terrorist espionage plots in veteran cult director Abel Ferrara's pandemic lockdown thriller, which world premiered at the Locarno Film Festival.
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Oliver Stone’s ‘JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass’: Film Review | Cannes 2021
The controversial director weighs up recently declassified evidence about John F. Kennedy's assassination in this forensically detailed documentary.
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‘Evolution’: Film Review | Cannes 2021
Kornel Mundruczo and Kata Weber, the husband-and-wife team behind 'Pieces of a Woman,' draw on their family history for this time-jumping drama about the deep scars left behind by the Holocaust.
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‘Drive My Car’: Film Review | Cannes 2021
Prize-winning festival favorite Ryusuke Hamaguchi returns with this somber drama about love and loss, based on a short story by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
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‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ (‘Guzen to sozo’): Film Review | Berlin 2021
Chance and coincidence play starring roles in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's female-driven portmanteau feature.
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‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’: Film Review | Berlin 2021
Director Radu Jude's Berlin competition contender 'Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn' is a scathing social satire about sex, lies and videotape.
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‘Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time’: Film Review
A lovesick brain surgeon questions her grasp on reality in Hungarian director Lili Horvat's cryptic Oscar contender.
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‘The Last Ones’ (‘Viimased’): Film Review
Estonian director Veiko Ounpuu scores his third shot at the Academy Awards with this gritty “Nordic Western” set against the wintry majesty of Lapland, 'The Last Ones.'
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‘Gorbachev. Heaven’: Film Review
Director Vitaly Mansky secures an intimate audience with the former Soviet premier whose democratic reforms helped end the Cold War in 'Gorbachev. Heaven.'
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‘In the Mirror’: Film Review
Laila Pakalnina's surreal comic fable 'In the Mirror' reboots Snow White for an age of selfies and social media body-shaming.
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‘A Christmas Carol’: Film Review
Carey Mulligan, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya and Andy Serkis lend their voices to this semi-animated version of the classic Dickens ghost story 'A Christmas Carol'.
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