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Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton in a still from ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ in theaters on Friday

The Magnificent Wes Anderson: Why 'The Phoenician Scheme' is my fave since 'Grand Budapest'

E. Nina Rothe May 20, 2025

At the core of his latest film, Anderson, along with co-writer Roman Coppola and leading man Benicio de Toro, has created a wonderfully entertaining antihero of contradictions: European yet eerily Trumpian, bigger than life yet soft spoken, bearing many passports yet without a fixed address, a self professed diplomat who carries a crate of hand-grenades — just in case they are needed. And more often than not, they are.

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In Film Festivals, Film, review Tags Wes Anderson, Benicio del Toro, Universal, Focus Features, Middle East, The Phoenician Scheme, Cannes Film Festival, Competition, Benedict Cumberbatch, Fouad Malouf, Milena Canonero, Adam Stockhausen, Jasper Sharp, Alexandre Desplat, Cartier, Prada, Dunhill, Juman Malouf, Studio Babelsberg, Tom Hanks, Riz Ahmed, Bryan Cranston, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Scarlett Johansson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bill Murray, Michael Cera, Mia Threapleton, Roman Coppola
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Reinventing the narrative: 'Nino' by Pauline Loquès Cannes Review

E. Nina Rothe May 19, 2025

If you thought a film following a man’s weekend after discovering he’s ill couldn’t be charming, funny, tender, warm and thoroughly entertaining from beginning to end, journalist turned filmmaker Pauline Loquès will change your mind. And your hearts, forever.

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In Film, Film Festivals, review Tags Théodore Pellerin, William Lebghil, Salomé Dewaels, Jeanne Balibar, Pauline Loquès, Nino, Cannes, festival de cannes, Critics Week, Semaine de la Critique, Pauline Loques, Mathieu Amalric, The Film Party Sales
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Cannes Gem: A review of 'Urchin' by Harris Dickinson

E. Nina Rothe May 18, 2025

A film that, aside from its spellbinding leading man and touching crucial themes about the habits that bring us down, again and again, also begs the question: “Who do the streets of London belong to? Those who thread upon them or those who call them home?”

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In Features, Film, review, Film Festivals Tags Scott O’Donnell, Archie Pearch, Josée Deshaies, Leos Carax, Vittorio De Sica, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy, Amr Waked, Triangle of Sadness, Nicole Kidman, Babygirl, Festival de Cannes, Urchin, London, Harris Dickinson, Frank Dillane, Lisa Mustafa, Charades Films, BBC Film, BFI
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To be Muslim, French and Queer: 'The Little Sister' Cannes review

E. Nina Rothe May 17, 2025

What do you do when you don’t see people like you represented in French literature? Well, if you are Fatima Daas, you write a character that has never been shown before — a lesbian, Muslim young woman, first generation French daughter of Algerian immigrants. And then, a great filmmaker and actress like Hafsia Herzi might make it into a film that ends up in Cannes, in Competition. Well, this is what happened.

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In Film, Film Festivals, review Tags Festival de Cannes, The Little Sister, Jérémie Attard, Halima Benhamed, Fatima Daas, The Last One, Park-ji Min, Nadia Melliti, La Petite Derniere, Hafsia Herzi, Mouna Soualem
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Tom Cruise must need a nap after 'Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning'

E. Nina Rothe May 15, 2025

He runs across London, dives to the depth of the Baltic Sea, flies through the South African sky, most of the time outside an airplane, and never misses a beat — and I was exhausted just watching him do it all…

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In Film Festivals, Film, review Tags Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning, Paramount, festival de cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Christopher McQuarrie, Philip Seymour Hoffman, AI, The Entity, Pom Klementief, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Gabriel, Ashley Atwell, Angela Bassett, Richard L. Gelfond, IMAX, Shea Whigham, Cineum, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Katy M. O’Brian, Rolf Saxon, Ethan Hunt, MI films
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The power of one, letter: 'The Extraordinary Miss Flower' review

E. Nina Rothe May 2, 2025

If I were to sum up this wondrously dreamy doc in a couple of words, I would say it’s a hippie, trippy psychedelic cinematic joy of a film, and one you should not dare to miss.

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In Film, review Tags The Extraordinary Miss Flower, Zoe Flower, Geraldine Flower, Nick Cave, Richard Ayaode, Caroline Catz, BFI release, Emiliana Torrini, Miss Flower
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To be young, gifted and... gay! A review of Iair Said's 'Most People Die on Sundays'

E. Nina Rothe April 28, 2025

A personal tale based on the filmmaker’s own experience centering around the death of his father, this succinct film mixes a successful blend of realism, absurdity, comedy and drama to create a wondrous work of the Seventh Art.

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In review, Film Tags Most People Die on Sundays, Big World Pictures, Quad Cinema, Laemmle Theaters, ACID Cannes, Jewish, Argentina, Antonia Zegers, Juliana Gattas, Rita Cortese, Iair Said
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The brothers hanging out in ‘The Accountant 2’, courtesy of Warner Bros.

I'll give you one, no make that 2 good reasons to watch 'The Accountant 2' with Ben Affleck

E. Nina Rothe April 25, 2025

Do you really want to know what those are? Well, for one, the brothers’ duo the American star creates along with Jon Bernthal is cinematic chemistry 101. And the other reason? Read on!

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In Film, review Tags Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, The Accountant 2, The Accountant, film, Everyman Borough Yards, Christian Wolff, line dancing, Amazon MGM Studios, Warner Bros Pictures, SXSW
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A photo of the Weber siblings in Bremerhaven, Germany in 1946

Courage decoded: Beth Lane's 'UnBroken' is the film you need to watch on Netflix

E. Nina Rothe April 21, 2025

A film which tells the real story of seven Jewish siblings, separated by war and reunited after 40 years, helped by the kindness of strangers along the way, and told by the miraculous offspring of the youngest sister. And now you can watch this inspirational gem on Netflix, starting on Holocaust Remembrance Day — April 23rd.

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In Film, review Tags Beth Lane, The Weber family, UnBroken, documentary, Shoah, Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance Day, The Weber Family Arts Foundation, Submarine Entertainment, Netflix, Yom HaShoah, 92NY Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, Michel Hazanavicius, Guillame Ribot
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