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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2023
A romantic collision of past and present, a subversive feminist fairy tale, a metaphysical ghost story, an epic retelling of a horrific footnote in American history and a sublime anti-rom-com are among this year’s highlights.
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Critics’ Conversation: The Great Film Performances of 2023
THR film reviewers delight in an assortment of deliciously unlikable lead turns, single out stars delivering career bests (a wild Emma Stone, a wily Natalie Portman) and celebrate new and rising talents from various corners of the globe.
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of the Fall Fests
Career highs for Emma Stone and Nicolas Cage, a delicious Frederick Wiseman doc, a poignant gay ghost story and two knockout dramas about the refugee crisis in Europe are among THR critics’ 15 faves from Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘His Three Daughters’ Review: Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne Excel in Azazel Jacobs’ Vividly Affecting Chamber Dramedy
The stars play sisters reunited in the New York City apartment of their childhood to care for their father during his last days of home hospice care.
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 10 Best Films of 2023 So Far
THR’s reviewers choose faves from the first half of the year, including a Michelle Williams-Kelly Reichardt collab, Miles Morales’ latest adventure and an aching love-triangle drama.
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 20 Best Films of Cannes 2023
Favorites included Scorsese’s wrenching true-crime epic, two riveting French courtroom dramas, a chilling Holocaust film like no other, a handcrafted Moroccan documentary, and the latest from veteran auteurs Aki Kaurismaki, Wim Wenders and Victor Erice.
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‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Review: Sandra Hüller Is Brilliant as a Writer Accused of Murder in Justine Triet’s Rivetingly Complex Drama
The 'Toni Erdmann' star plays an author on trial for killing her husband in this Cannes competition entry from French filmmaker Justine Triet ('Sibyl').
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 50 Best Films of the 21st Century (So Far)
Over the course of a few months, several Zoom meetings, and countless emails, six THR film critics came together to hash out, and rank, what they consider the greatest films since 2000.
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Breaking Down the List: Facts and Figures About THR Critics’ 50 Best Films of the 21st Century (So Far)
From the number of best picture winners to make the cut to the films it broke our hearts not to include, here are some stats and specifics about the list.
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of Sundance 2023
A deliciously juicy psychological thriller starring Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway, an Olympian’s stunning directorial debut and a spirited documentary portrait of Little Richard are among faves from the fest.
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‘Passages’ Review: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adele Exarchopoulos in Ira Sachs’ Searing Chronicle of Romantic Chaos
A German film director, his English husband and a Frenchwoman they meet at a club form a distorted love triangle in the indie filmmaker’s Paris-set drama.
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2022
A tragicomic Irish fable about male solitude, a twisty South Korean neo-noir, a tempestuous study in abuse of power and a quietly searing remembrance of father-daughter time top the year’s standouts.
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