Three stories of very troubled women unfolded in Toronto in the first few days of the 2021 International Film Festival, with mixed but largely frustrating results. The best of the three is Justine Bateman’s “Violet,” featuring a performance from Olivia Munn that earned raves when the film premiered at South by Southwest earlier this year.…
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Eloise “Ellie” Turner (Thomasin McKenzie), the wide-eyed protagonist at the heart of director Edgar Wright’s stylish yet thematically inert horror/comedy “Last Night in Soho,” has big dreams of becoming a fashion designer. But a ghost haunts her: Ellie’s mother had similar desires of working as a designer. Her mother moved to London only to die…
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The Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced its return to theatrical, outdoor, and virtual screens from Wednesday, October 13th, through Sunday, October 24th, 2021 for its 57th edition. North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, the 57th Chicago International Film Festival expands throughout Chicago with presentations at venues across the city, including at AMC River…
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“Azor” is a quiet, unhurried, unflashy film, and that’s what makes it so unnerving. You come away from it feeling that you’ve been given a greater understanding of how authoritarian power-grabs happen. The takeaway feeling isn’t, “Oh, the humanity,” but something more like, “What would I do if I were in that world? Would I…
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We are always performing a version of ourselves. Through social media: what photos we share, what we write, or what posts we like or retweet. Through first impressions: first dates, job interviews. And, in the age of COVID, the person we appear to be on video through Zoom, WhatsApp, or Skype: the locations from which…
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The following table of contents features the complete coverage of the 2021 Venice Film Festival published at RogerEbert.com and written by film critic Glenn Kenny. Click on each alphabetized title to be directed to the full review… “Al Oriente“ “The Card Counter“ “The Cathedral“ “Dune“ “Illusions perdues“ “Inferno Rosso“ “La Santa Piccola“ “Last Night in Soho“…
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