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Sofia Coppola spends much of Making Marie Antoinette proving she can control a $40 million period production, while Eleanor Coppola quietly wonders why she spent so much of her own life recording other people’s work. That tension gives this archival documentary its real subject. Eleanor shot roughly 80 hours of footage during the making of Sofia’s Marie Antoinette in 2006. Much of it sat unused for years. Mother and daughter began organizing the material during the 2020 lockdown, and after Eleanor died in 2024, Sofia completed the film with editor Aaron Matthews. Eleanor retains sole directing credit, an appropriate decision...

Childhood lasts longer when nobody tells you it has begun to end. Guillermina “Guille” Aranciaga and Belinda “Beli” Stutz spend their earliest years in Alessandra Sanguinetti’s The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer dancing, dressing up, swimming, inventing husbands and funerals, treating the Argentine Pampas as though imagination might permanently protect them from whatever adulthood is waiting to collect. Sanguinetti began filming the cousins in 1999, after first photographing them for the project that would become The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams. Twenty-five years of footage now form her feature documentary debut. Guille and...

Marsupilami: Hoobadventure succeeded because it understood the appeal of a good 2D platformer without trying to disguise its influences. Its sequel takes the smarter route: keep that foundation, then give the player better reasons to move through it. Marsupilami 2: Salsa Palombia again sends the Belgian comic-book creature and his friends across Palombia, this time after the Mummy Queen places the land under a musical curse. The story appears when required, then gets out of the way. Punch, Hope, and Twister are the real reason this sequel feels different. Every stage provides two of them, and switching between the pair...

Perfection arrives in The Difficult Bride as a schedule of appointments. Zaineen, a wealthy young woman in contemporary Dhaka, enters the Mayfair beauty salon expecting the familiar machinery of wedding preparation and instead finds her body itemized. Weight, pores, stretch marks, facial scars and cellulite become defects requiring correction. When the beautician promises, “I will make her perfect,” Rubaiyat Hossain has already turned a bridal ritual into something faintly medical and increasingly coercive. That shift gives Hossain’s 88-minute film its sharpest idea. Zaineen, played by Zaineen Chowdhury Karim, appears protected by every advantage. She moves through Dhaka in a chauffeur-driven...

Rita Cooper has survived the Holocaust, raised two daughters, kept a marriage intact, held down a bank job, and still cannot explain why getting out of bed feels impossible. Carrie Coon plays that contradiction without turning it into a mystery requiring a neat diagnosis. Rita simply carries too much history inside a life that everyone around her has learned to call stable. Guy Nattiv’s The Liberation, co-written with Noa Berman Herzberg and inspired by Nattiv’s grandmother, places Rita in early-1980s New Jersey, where stability has become another demand made of her. Reuben (Tracy Letts) is a decent husband. Ella (Bella...

Orbitals makes friendship feel mechanical in the best possible sense. One player is pulling a platform into place with the Scrap Hook while the other waits for the opening to dash across. Minutes later, one is steering a ship through incoming fire while the other swivels the turret toward whatever is trying to kill them. Shapefarm keeps returning to this simple idea: two people paying attention to each other can make ordinary actions feel exciting. That philosophy places Orbitals squarely beside It Takes Two and Split Fiction, which makes sense given director Jakob Lundgren’s work on both. Yet its emotional...
Noel Gallagher stands in a rehearsal room beside an empty microphone, waiting for a brother who spent roughly fifteen years...
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Read moreDetailsLilly Wachowski said Friday she has stepped back from "The Matrix" franchise she and her sister Lana created more than 27 years ago, telling KCRW's "The Business" that she no longer wants involvement in future installments. "Personally, I don't wanna play in that sandbox anymore," she said. "I'm kinda done."...
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Read moreSofia Coppola spends much of Making Marie Antoinette proving she can control a $40 million period production, while Eleanor Coppola quietly wonders why she spent so much of her own...
Childhood lasts longer when nobody tells you it has begun to end. Guillermina “Guille” Aranciaga and Belinda “Beli” Stutz spend their earliest years in Alessandra Sanguinetti’s The Illusion of an...
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Perfection arrives in The Difficult Bride as a schedule of appointments. Zaineen, a wealthy young woman in contemporary Dhaka, enters the Mayfair beauty salon expecting the familiar machinery of wedding...
Rita Cooper has survived the Holocaust, raised two daughters, kept a marriage intact, held down a bank job, and still cannot explain why getting out of bed feels impossible. Carrie...
Orbitals makes friendship feel mechanical in the best possible sense. One player is pulling a platform into place with the Scrap Hook while the other waits for the opening to...
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Noel Gallagher stands in a rehearsal room beside an empty microphone, waiting for a brother who spent roughly fifteen years outside his life. The musicians are present. The equipment is...
Marsupilami: Hoobadventure succeeded because it understood the appeal of a good 2D platformer without trying to disguise its influences. Its...
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