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'Overdrive': Film Review
Scott Eastwood and Freddie Thorp play high-stakes car thieves who get mixed up with mobsters in this revved-up heist thriller. read more
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'Mrs. Fang': Film Review | Locarno 2017
Chinese documentarian Wang Bing chronicles the last ten days in the life of the title character in 'Mrs. Fang,' his latest documentary. read...
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'The Wandering Soap Opera' ('La telenovela errante'): Film Review | Locarno 2017
Filmmaker Raul Ruiz, who died in 2011, shot 'A Wandering Soap Opera,' a jocular commentary on and in his native Chile in 1990. That film has now...
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'Winter Brothers' ('Vinterbrodre'): Film Review | Locarno 2017
Denmark-based Icelandic writer-director Hlynur Palmason's debut feature 'Winter Brothers' won Best Actor at the long-running Swiss extravaganza....
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'Once Upon a Time': Film Review
Codirectors Zhao Xiaoding and Anthony LaMolinara team up in 'Once Upon a Time' to adapt a sprawling fantasy novel by Tang Qi. read more
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'The Last Dalai Lama?': Film Review
Mickey Lemle’s new film ‘The Last Dalai Lama?’ revisits the legacy of the Tibetan spiritual leader 25 years after his original documentary was...
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'Iceman' ('Der Mann aus dem Eis'): Film Review | Locarno 2017
German actor Juergen Vogel plays a Copper Age Alps-dweller who is out for revenge in 'Iceman' ('Der Mann aus dem Eis'), a fictional take on what...
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'The Song of Scorpions': Film Review | Locarno 2017
Golshifteh Farahani and Irrfan Khan play a "scorpion singer" and camel peddler, respectively, in Anup Singh's 'The Song of Scorpions,' a lush,...
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‘A Taxi Driver’: Film Review
In spring 1980, a South Korean cabbie awakens to the brutalities of his country’s government in 'A Taxi Driver,' a drama based on actual events....
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'Bedeviled': Film Review
Teenagers realize their phones are making life hell in Abel and Burlee Vang's thriller 'Bedeviled.' read more
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'Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Summer Edition': TV Review
Michael Che and Colin Jost get a summer half-hour showcase that feels predictably like a padded Weekend Update segment of 'Saturday Night Live.'...