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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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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick 20 Cannes Film Festival Favorites
THR film critics choose the best of the fest, including a Palme d'Or-winning French shocker, Wes Anderson’s latest vision, a revealing documentary about a Hollywood stalwart and more.
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‘In Front of Your Face’: Film Review | Cannes 2021
A former actress and a film director meet in a café in the latest from South Korea's Hong Sangsoo.
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‘Casablanca Beats’: Film Review | Cannes 2021
The fictionalized story of the Positive School of Hip Hop, founded by Moroccan helmer Nabil Ayouch in a Casablanca slum, becomes an exercise in pure music and energy.
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‘Belle’: Film Review | Cannes 2021
Mamoru Hosoda, a master of emotional Japanese anime ('Wolf Children', 'Mirai'), invents a glittering virtual universe in which a shy teenager becomes a music idol in 'Belle'.
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‘The Year of the Everlasting Storm’: Film Review | Cannes 2021
The hidden depths of COVID-19 are plumbed by arthouse headliners Jafar Panahi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, David Lowery, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, Anthony Chen and Malik Vitthal in seven offbeat stories.
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‘A Hero’ (‘Ghahreman’): Film Review | Cannes 2021
Oscar-winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi returns to his native Iran with this story about truth-telling, honor and the price of freedom.
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‘Three Floors’ (‘Tre Piani’): Film Review | Cannes 2021
Margherita Buy, Alba Rohrwacher and Riccardo Scamarcio play characters living in the same condo in Nanni Moretti’s alternating dramas about ordinary people.
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‘Rehana Maryam Noor’: Film Review | Cannes 2021
Azmeri Haque Badhon plays a professor of medicine who teeters between fierce feminism and personal obsession in Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s second feature, the first Bangladeshi film in Cannes’ official selection.
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2021 (So Far)
THR's film reviewers pick faves from the first half of the year, including a South African drama about a gay soldier, a female buddy comedy featuring Kristen Wiig and an adaptation of an exotic dancer's tweetstorm about a nightmarish Florida road trip.
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‘The Father Who Moves Mountains’: Film Review | Shanghai 2021
An ex-intelligence officer (Adrian Titieni) combs the wilderness for his son in Daniel Sandu’s second feature produced by Cristian Mungiu.
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‘Botox’: Film Review | Shanghai 2021
Two sisters discover they can run the family’s magic mushroom farm without their snotty brother in Kaveh Mazaheri’s wry, award-winning Iranian-Canadian feature.
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