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★★★★☆ Following the success of last year’s In the House (2012), acclaimed French director François Ozon returns to cinema screens this week with Palme d’Or nominee Jeune & Jolie (2013), a stylish, well-crafted and intelligent study of a young woman […]
★★★★☆ Asghar Farhadi first burst onto the international scene with his 2011 Silver Bear/Oscar winner A Separation, the most recent of several astute Iranian dramas. Farhadi returns this year with Palme d’Or nominee The Past (Le passé, 2013), a film […]
★★★★★ Based on the real-life 2009 shooting of Oscar Grant in Oakland, California, Ryan Coogler’s feature debut Fruitvale Station (2013) is an uncompromising, original and movingly humane piece of American political cinema. Michael B. Jordan plays Oscar, who, on New […]
★★☆☆☆ Opening the Un Certain Regard section of the 66th Cannes Film Festival comes Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring (2013), a teen crime movie/wannabe satire based on the true story of a gang of over-privileged kids (with serious entitlement issues) […]