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This Week on MUBI: “Velvet Goldmine”
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Back to Basics in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
The Star Wars prequels are failures for many, endlessly catalogued reasons, but among the most egregious is the reliance on volumes of exposition to establish background and intervening details. Instead of letting actors suggest individual and collaborative hi...
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This Week on MUBI: “The Gleaners & I”
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László Nemes and Géza Röhrig
on “Son of Saul”
László Nemes' tour-de-force directorial debut, Son of Saul—which centers on the titular main character’s (Géza Röhrig) quest to bury the body of a dead boy that he claims is his lost son—is a powerful, thoughtful and inspiring representation of the horrors of ...
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“Son of Saul” Is Utterly Devastating
Note. This review was originally published as part of our Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage.
László Nemes' Son of Saul boasts one of the most rigorously committed aesthetics in recent memory. Without subduing the roving camera of DoP Mátyás Erdély to the limitatio...
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“Arabian Nights, Vol. 3” Caps A Work of Grand Ambition
The first two volumes of Miguel Gomes’s latest film, Arabian Nights, explore the crippling effects of economic mismanagement in Portugal, ostensibly through the magical lens of Princess Scheherazade, who narrates the tales to her husband, King Shahryar. The th...
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This Week on MUBI: “Hard to be a God”
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“In the Heart of the Sea” Doesn’t Know Dick
In the Heart of the Sea doesn’t get to the heart of much. In fact, Ron Howard’s seafaring adventure is as confused a picture as I’ve seen in quite some time. Adapted from Nathaniel Philbrick’s 2000 best-seller about the sinking of the whaleship Essex, the film...
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This Week on Mubi: “L for Leisure”
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“Boy and the World” Is A Can’t-Miss Film
Simple shapes form kaleidoscopic fractals. The image continually pulls outward until the viewer understands that they’re looking at atoms, then molecules, then compounds, all composing a colored stone. Observing the stone is a young boy, drawn in a manner so s...
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