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newrepublic.com | Adam Nayman
Game recognizes game: Martin Scorsese once called Jia Zhangke’s body of work “the finest, toughest, most vitally alive work in modern moviemaking.” It’s a high compliment, but Jia’s cinema—not only tough, fine, and vital, but slippery, sophisticated, and ambitious, matching form to function and reach to grasp—measures up.
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yahoo.com | Adam Nayman
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article.
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5 days ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Davidson |Giovanni Marchini Camia |Jane Giles |Adam Nayman
Director Andrew Ahn’s endearing and significantly queerer update of Ang Lee’s rom com hit lets its LGBTQ+ characters behave badly, and is all the better for it.
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5 days ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Giovanni Marchini Camia |Alex Davidson |Jane Giles |Adam Nayman
The French director’s mid-length homage to his own filmmaking presents a funny and provocative collage of cinema history, politics, and artistic introspection. 8 May 2025The title of Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me is, of course, tongue-in-cheek.
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6 days ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Jane Giles |Adam Nayman |Kim Newman |Catherine Wheatley
Like Visconti’s erotically charged directorial debut Ossessione (1943), Motel Destino can in part be seen as a loose version of James M. Cain’s novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934). Director Karim Aïnouz sets the action in the province where he was born, Ceará on the north-eastern coast of Brazil; together with cinematographer Hélène Louvart (Pina, 2011; Rocks, 2019; La chimera, 2023) he portrays an equatorial landscape fundamental to the film’s story.
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1 week ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Adam Nayman |Kim Newman |Catherine Wheatley |Imogen Smith
Celebrity resentments and insecurities are portrayed with unusual tenderness in this clever Hollywood Hills satire featuring Elizabeth Reaser, Walton Goggins, and Pedro Pascal. 6 May 2025Nadia Conners’ The Uninvited is a Hollywood Hills psychodrama; its caustic, quippy vision of flawed showbiz professionals stumbling through a dark night of the soul sits at the intersection of The Player (1992) and Sunset Blvd. (1950).
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2 weeks ago | 
filmcomment.com | Adam Nayman
This article appeared in the April 25, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here.
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3 weeks ago | 
newrepublic.com | Adam Nayman
The French Surrealist Jean Cocteau once said that the cinema was “death at work.” David Cronenberg’s gloriously morbid new movie, The Shrouds,concerns a filmmaker who takes his work home with him. Karsh (Vincent Cassel) is not an auteur on par with Cocteau, or Cronenberg. He’s a self-described “producer of industrial videos,” who has poured his resources into an ambitious new startup venture called GraveTech.
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Maha Albadrawi |David Parkinson |Adam Nayman |Andy Medhurst
Martin Scorsese occupies a rarefied position on the internet these days: part elder statesman of film (on Letterboxd), part TikTok dad (to Francesca), and always good for an 8 to 12 minute YouTube sit-down. But in 2019, he found himself on the wrong side of internet ire when he compared Marvel films to theme parks. It was a throwaway comment in a longread about his career and upcoming film, The Irishman (2019).
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bfi.org.uk | Anton Bitel |Nick Davis |Adam Nayman |Tara Judah
Jared Hess’s A Minecraft Movie is a big (and not just in budget), brash and brazen family film – so don’t by fooled by the apparent modesty of its title’s indefinite article. It is the middle word that does the heavy lifting in the first feature film to be based on Mojang Studios’ Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time.
