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Jordan Mintzer is a contributing Paris-based Film Critic for The Hollywood Reporter. Prior to that, he wrote for Variety. His writings have also appeared in the French publications Les Cahiers du cinéma, Le Monde, So Film and Libération, and he is a regular guest on the French radio show On Aura Tout Vu. He is the author of three interview books — "Conversations with James Gray," "Conversations with Darius Khondji" and "Conversations with Dean Tavoularis" — and the producer of the feature films "Hamilton," "Putty Hill" and "Sollers Point." Mintzer grew up in Queens, N.Y., and has a BBA in Economics from Baruch College.
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A North Macedonian farm boy's love of EDM sets him on a path of small-town rebellion in the feature filmmaking debut from Georgi M. Unkovski.
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Critic’s Appreciation: David Lynch, a Visionary Director Who Spoke to Our Darker Selves
Laying bare American life's hidden horrors and absurdities, the auteur behind 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Twin Peaks' held up a distorted but unsettlingly truthful mirror.
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‘Papa’ Review: An Unspeakable Crime Tears a Family Apart in an Impressionistic Hong Kong Drama
Premiering at the Tokyo International Film Festival, writer-director Philip Yung's latest feature centers on a father whose teenage son commits a gruesome act of violence.
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‘Lust in the Rain’ Review: A Surreal, Sexual Japanese Wartime Fantasy That’s Never Quite Believable Enough
Premiering at the Tokyo Film Festival, director Shinzo Katayama's genre-bending adaptation of Yoshiharu Tsuge's autobiographical manga charts a strange and complicated love triangle.
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THR Critics Pick the Best Films From the Fall Festivals
An ambitious American immigrant saga, Nicole Kidman’s steamy erotic thriller, an intimate John Lennon doc and a trippy Luca Guadagnino-Daniel Craig collaboration are among our reviewers’ 15 faves out of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘Meet the Barbarians’ Review: Julie Delpy’s Middling Refugee Comedy Has Its Heart in the Right Place
The latest feature from the director of '2 Days in Paris' reveals what happens when a tiny French town welcomes a Syrian family into its midst.
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‘Bring Them Down’ Review: Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan Are Compelling as Feuding Shepherds in an Otherwise Dour Irish Drama
The first feature from writer-director Christopher Andrews, about a violent turf war between two families of sheep herders, premiered in Toronto.
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‘Of Dogs and Men’ Review: A Thoughtful and Quietly Powerful Israeli Docudrama Explores the Aftermath of Oct. 7
Director Dani Rosenberg ('The Vanishing Soldier') shot his latest feature at the Nir Oz kibbutz just weeks after the attacks that ignited the current Israel-Hamas war.
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The Hollywood Reporter critics weigh in on this year’s crop of titles, from biopics to documentaries, sweeping epics to intimate character studies, tear-jerking dramas to laugh-out-loud comedies.
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‘The Quiet Son’ Review: Far-Right Radicalism Pulls a Family Apart in an Intensely Performed French Drama
In the fourth feature by directors Delphine and Muriel Coulin ('17 Girls'), Vincent Lindon plays a father whose older son gets drawn into a group of extremist thugs.
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‘Pavements’ Review: Alex Ross Perry’s Multifaceted Portrait of the Influential ’90s Band Is All-Encompassing and a Bit Exhausting
Premiering in Venice, the latest from the director of 'Her Smell' uses different formats and genres to explore the highs and lows of a group that was more respected than it was ever mainstream.
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‘King Ivory’ Review: Drugs, Guns, Cops and Cartels Dominate an Effectively Gritty Fentanyl-Era Thriller Starring Ben Foster
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