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Tim Grierson
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A mesmerizingly vulnerable Angelina Jolie fails to fully redeem ‘Couture’
Set during a busy Paris Fashion Week, the movie threads together the stories of three working women whose interior lives only sometimes register.
Meet the interpreters who help make film press tours global
You've seen them alongside luminaries such as Jafar Panahi, Marlee Matlin and Jacques Audiard. Now it's time for six interpreters to have their own turn…
Righteous fury comes to a racist town in RZA’s ‘One Spoon of Chocolate’
The Wu-Tang Clan's sonic architect steps behind the camera for his fourth feature, an action-drenched throwback to the '70s-era revenge flicks he loves.
Two prisoners perfect a delicate dance of appeasement and self-interest in ‘Wasteman’
David Jonsson and Tom Blyth, two English actors of promise, bring to life a tricky prison relationship based on power and protection in a movie…
In ‘Over Your Dead Body,’ a couple that plots violent marital separation meets its match
As cooled marrieds, Samara Weaving and Jason Segel hate each other, but they hate home invaders even more in director Jorma Taccone's vicious, derivative comedy.
She made one album in 1974. Now her song is playing in a new A24 movie
In 1974, Shira Small recorded an album as a teen. Now, with her song opening A24's "The Drama," she may finally be getting her moment…
A plague brings society to its knees in heady French import ‘Alpha’
Director Julia Ducournau ("Raw," "Titane") takes on an ambitious tale about a devastating, highly metaphorical virus, but her ideas get lost in grandiosity.
A lone crusader for justice runs into a Soviet-era brick wall in ‘Two Prosecutors’
Directed by audacious Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, this deliberate legal thriller mounts the suspense of a trap slowly closing over two hours.
‘Kokuho’ sets up an epic backstage clash amid the highly lacquered world of kabuki theater
Japan's highest-grossing live-action movie of all time, the hit drama goes into lavish detail on the art of kabuki performance, as well as decades of…
5 Oscar-nominated screenwriters tell the stories behind their films’ endings
The writers behind 'Sentimental Value,' 'Train Dreams,' 'Bugonia,' 'Blue Moon' and 'It Was Just an Accident' explain how they arrived at their endings.