Critics’ Conversation: The Great Film Performances of 2022
The year in acting was particularly rich for women, from the brilliant Blanchett and the sublime Seydoux to breakouts like Danielle Deadwyler and astonishing non-English-language turns flying — frustratingly — under the radar.
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Critics’ Picks: Cate Blanchett, Steven Spielberg Films Among the 15 Best of the Fall Festivals
Career highs from Blanchett and Colin Farrell, new docs by Laura Poitras and Werner Herzog, and Spielberg's moving cine-memoir are among THR critics’ 15 favorites from Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘Other People’s Children’ Review: Virginie Efira Gives a Career-Best Turn in Rebecca Zlotowski’s Deft, Delicate Dramedy
Efira stars as a woman whose attachment to her boyfriend’s young daughter awakens unexpected maternal longing in this Venice competition entry from France.
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‘Monica’ Review: Trace Lysette Can’t Save Andrea Pallaoro’s Sluggish Study of Trans Alienation
Lysette plays a trans woman who returns home to care for her dying mother (Patricia Clarkson) in this Venice competition entry.
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick 20 Cannes Film Festival Favorites
A Queens-set memory piece from James Gray, a career best from Léa Seydoux, a devastating donkey story and a documentary about surgery that would make Cronenberg blush were among THR film critics' faves from the fest.
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Léa Seydoux in Mia Hansen-Love’s ‘One Fine Morning’: Film Review | Cannes 2022
The actress plays a single mom juggling an ailing father and a new lover in the latest from the writer-director of 'Bergman Island' and 'Things to Come.'
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Winona Ryder in ‘The Cow’: Film Review | SXSW 2022
The actress stars alongside Dermot Mulroney in Eli Horowitz's debut feature, a thriller about a woman whose boyfriend disappears under mysterious circumstances.
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‘A Love Song’: Film Review | Sundance 2022
Dale Dickey and Wes Studi play childhood sweethearts who meet up for a night at a Southwest Colorado campsite in Max Walker-Silverman's debut feature.
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2021
A Japanese meditation on grief and art, a psychosexual Western chamber piece, a splashy movie-musical makeover from Steven Spielberg and striking directorial debuts from Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Hall were among this year's standouts.
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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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Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth in Mia Hansen-Løve’s ‘Bergman Island’: Film Review | Cannes 2021
The actors star along with Mia Wasikowska in a movie about screenwriters navigating crises of love and career on the island made famous by Ingmar Bergman.
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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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