Teona Strugar Mitevska reimagines Mother Teresa not as a saintly icon but as a conflicted woman torn between selfless devotion and personal ambition, with Noomi Rapace delivering a strikingly human performance.
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‘Mother’ Venice Review: Noomi Rapace as a Hard, Complex Teresa of Calcutta
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‘The Roses’ Review: A British Take on Marital Warfare
Jay Roach brings Warren Adler’s classic tale of marital strife back to the screen with Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as a couple caught between love, ambition, and resentment.
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‘Eenie Meanie’ Review: A Flashy, Fun, Forgettable Mix of Action, Comedy and Crime (Hulu)
A messy mix of shootouts, sharp banter, mobsters, and an unexpected pregnancy, ‘Eenie Meanie’ tries to revive the spirit of those pulpy, Tarantino-inspired crime comedies of the ’90s.
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‘White Snails’ Locarno Review: Two Lost Souls, One Tentative Connection
A Belarusian model dreaming of a career in China finds herself drawn to a mysterious loner who works the night shift at a morgue. Their encounter unsettles her sense of body, beauty, and mortality.
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‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ Locarno Review: The Poetry of Fleeting Encounters
In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo meet by the sea. In winter, Li, a screenwriter, travels to a snow-covered village. There, she finds a guesthouse run by Benzo.
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‘Dry Leaf’ Locarno Review: A Disappearance, A Road Trip, A Nation
In Alexandre Koberidze’s «Dry Leaf», a father’s search for his missing daughter becomes a whimsical journey through Georgia’s backroads and football fields.
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“Eldest Son” Locarno Review: Family, Memory, and Migration
Lila, a young Korean-Argentinean girl, navigates the contradictions of her identity and tries to find her place in the world. Her father Antonio arrives in Latin America 18 years earlier and decides to bet everything on the promise of a young immigrant’s dream. A family epic that seeks to return to the past in order to reinvent the present.
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‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Kurosawa Reimagined in New York
Spike Lee’s remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic relocates the story of a botched kidnapping from 1960s Japan to a vibrant, present-day New York, starring Denzel Washington and Jeffrey Wright.
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‘Olivia’ Locarno Review: A Dreamlike Journey Through Patagonia’s Liminal Spaces
In Sofía Petersen’s evocative debut, a young woman searches for her father who disappears in the mountains of Patagonia. Starring Agustina Sconochini.
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‘Mosquitoes’ Locarno Review: Three Girls, One Tumultuous Summer
1997: eight-year-old Linda drifts away from her wealthy grandmother’s Swiss villa with her carefree mother Eva. In Italy, she meets Azzurra and Marta. A summer bond unites the three girls in a gang formed to protect each other, their youth, and their freedom.



