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The Show Must Go On: The Cannes 2021 Film Festival

Quick! Get the “In a World…” trailer guy! Ah. He’s no longer available? We all carry his hyperbolic intonations in our memories, right? Recite with me: ‘In a world where the globe’s biggest and most important film festival comes up against a killer virus — not to mention a stubborn streaming service that rhymes with…

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All Light, Everywhere

A history of filmmaking, surveillance, and subjective and objective framings of both, “All Light, Everywhere” is a self-contained nonfiction feature that plays like a season of brainy nonfiction TV compacted into about two hours’ running time. Conceived and directed by Baltimore-based filmmaker Theo Anthony, whose other location-specific, idea-driven projects include the excellent “Rat Film,” it tries to touch…

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Monuments

“Monuments” is a film that essentially asks viewers to contemplate what might happen if you took the vague basic premise of Sam Peckinpah’s legendarily bloody and brutal 1974 black comedy “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” and ran it through the template of the aggressively oddball and largely forgotten indies that were all the rage…

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Flashback

This is a movie with a lot on its mind. The nature of time, the nature of fate, the nature of existence itself. Written and directed by Christopher MacBride, “Flashback” has a narrative that posits that “what might have been” actually is, or maybe was, in an alternate timeline, and that how we understand time…

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Gully

Uncertain what story it’s telling, Nabil Elderkin’s “Gully” is only held together by the sheer talent of its young cast. Kelvin Harrison Jr. (“Luce”), Charlie Plummer (“Lean on Pete”) and Jacob Latimore (“Sleight”) are three of the most interesting performers of their generation. Add in a supporting cast that includes the great Jonathan Majors (“The…

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