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Back to selection by Vadim Rizov in Festivals & Events on May 25, 2025 Cannes 2025, Entroncamento, Kelly Reichardt, Pedro Cabeleira, The Mastermind In a piece about the documentaries at this year’s Cannes, Slate’s Sam Adams noted the existence of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk but declined to name the section it was in, referring to it only as “a low-profile sidebar devoted to independent productions.” That would be ACID, which—with the possible exception of the CINEF section that shows...

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Denzel Washington (right) in Highest 2 Lowest by Vadim Rizov in Festivals & Events on May 23, 2025 Cannes 2025, Die My Love, Highest 2 Lowest, Hlynur Pálmason, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Lee, The Love That Remains Spike Lee’s maligned 2013 update of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 revenge picture, Oldboy, did little to inspire confidence in his latest reimagining of an Asian classic, this time relocating Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (1963) to DUMBO in Brooklyn.

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Back to selection Vahid Mobasseri, Majid Panahi and Hadis Pakbaten in A Simple Accident by Vadim Rizov in Festivals & Events on May 23, 2025 Cannes 2025, It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi, Kleber Mendonca Filho, The Secret Agent Sentenced in 2010 on spurious grounds by the Iranian government to six years in prison, a punishment that came with a 20-year ban on making movies, Jafar Panahi immediately set about violating the latter.

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Back to selection Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera and Mia Threapleton in The Phoenician Scheme by Vadim Rizov in Festivals & Events on May 18, 2025 Though Wes Anderson’s last consensus-acclaimed feature was 2014’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, his subsequent, progressively more divisive films have been profitable enough to emerge at a regular clip.

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Back to selection Lena Urzendowsky in Sound of Falling by Vadim Rizov in Festivals & Events on May 16, 2025 Cannes 2025, Sound of Falling, Two Prosecutors It’s always a dangerous business when entertainment journalists and film critics feel the need to wade into political commentary, but the Trumpian shadow hovering over everything makes people feel like they have to say something even if they don’t want to.