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The director of A Separation has done it again with a rich, harrowing and humane family drama.
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Georges Franju’s monstrous masterpiece delivers horror sans face but with a huge heart.
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The introduction of Dennis Hopper's Frank Booth sets the tone for David Lynch's darkly surreal masterpiece.
Ingmar Bergman digs a shallow grave for marriage in this bold and traumatic suburban drama.
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Something a little different (and violent) from one of Asia's greatest directors.
The director of A Separation has done it again with a rich, harrowing and humane family drama.
François Ozon delivers an erotic odyssey with a social conscience, but it's all a little dull and impenetrable.
Sofia Coppola loses the snark and delivers her most chilling and rich movie to date.
The new film from Mexican provocateur Amat Escalante does little more than pick up the penis abuse baton from Lars von Trier's Antichrist.
The Cannes film festival kicks off this week. Here are a few things that have got us a little excited…