The Diplomat Season 4 Review: Every Marriage Has a Foreign Policy
Hal Wyler has an efficient response to his wife’s concern that he and the American president have secretly endangered Britain:...
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The coastal house designed by Dora’s father offers an attractive place to withdraw from the world. Inside, its cool elegance leaves his daughter with little protection from her parents’ deteriorating marriage. Across the way, another household supplies what the architecture cannot: warm light, paintings, children eager for company, a garden thick with produce. July Jung’s Dora establishes the appeal of this neighboring home so persuasively that entering it feels like accepting care. The light makes an introduction on the inhabitants’ behalf. Their conduct will complicate it. Cinematographer Irina Lubtchansky gives Dora’s retreat and gradual emergence a tangible visual progression. Pronounced...

Gil has just given birth, and the people who love her are waiting to meet her daughter. Her husband, Jacques, tells them she needs rest. Watching this hospital visit in Géraldine Nakache’s Think Good, I wanted someone to get past him, to let the anticipated happiness reach the woman inside. Her mother Annah’s distress grows, and her friend Ibrahim nearly comes to blows with Jacques. A gathering that should have made Gil feel surrounded by affection becomes another occasion for her husband to decide who gets access to her. Niels Schneider makes that decision horribly easy to recognize and difficult...

Five Pizza Planet Tokens in each level give Buzz Lightyear a reason to investigate the oversized spaces of Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue!. Collecting them opens access to further levels and bosses, turning exploration into progress toward rescuing Woody. Racing RC in the garage belongs to the same logic as double-jumping around the house: ordinary surroundings become substantial challenges because Buzz is small. The familiar setting does useful design work. You understand what a garage is, then discover what crossing one requires from a toy. The camera makes that relationship less dependable. Finding a route and executing...

The burial prohibition in Rostislav Kirpičenko’s Spring makes a Ukrainian Orthodox priest confront an authority familiar from Sophocles: a ruler who believes his jurisdiction extends to the dead. Andriy must store civilians’ bodies for the Russian forces occupying his town, keeping them from relatives until they can be consigned to mass graves. He secretly returns them to their families. The resemblance to Antigone is precise, yet the difference matters. Where Antigone acts for her brother, Andriy’s obligation reaches across a community. His religious office makes strangers’ grief his responsibility, and every body returned becomes a breach of military discipline. Reading...

Bruce Dern was trying to change his professional identity when he made Silent Running. Douglas Trumbull’s science-fiction film gave a familiar screen villain a sympathetic lead, an opportunity to loosen the grip of years spent playing dangerous men. During the production, Dern took time away to appear in The Cowboys, where he shot John Wayne’s character in the back. The films arrived around the same time. One offered him a different future; the other renewed his contract with the audience’s existing expectations. The consequences reached his daughter’s social calendar. Laura Dern recalls having a childhood playdate canceled because her father...

Sophie has trouble keeping time, but her father helps pay the bills. That gives the auditions in Agnès Jaoui’s Crescendo a second selection process running alongside the singing. The Floral Opera Company needs a cast for The Marriage of Figaro, and artistic judgment must accommodate the people keeping the company solvent. Jaoui uses this process to introduce an ensemble without stopping to explain everybody’s place in it. We learn the hierarchy by watching a decision: Sophie, played by Tiphaine Daviot, gets Susanne, a demanding role her abilities cannot comfortably support. The compromise already has a place in the cast. The...
Hal Wyler has an efficient response to his wife’s concern that he and the American president have secretly endangered Britain:...
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Read moreDetailsIranian filmmaker Majid Majidi’s “Midday Meal” won the Busan Award for best film Thursday at the Busan International Film Festival, earning automatic eligibility for the Oscars’ international feature category. The win carries a $37,000 prize. It places Busan beside Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Sundance and Toronto as festivals whose top prize...
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Read moreThe coastal house designed by Dora’s father offers an attractive place to withdraw from the world. Inside, its cool elegance leaves his daughter with little protection from her parents’ deteriorating...
Gil has just given birth, and the people who love her are waiting to meet her daughter. Her husband, Jacques, tells them she needs rest. Watching this hospital visit in...
Five Pizza Planet Tokens in each level give Buzz Lightyear a reason to investigate the oversized spaces of Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue!. Collecting them opens access...
The burial prohibition in Rostislav Kirpičenko’s Spring makes a Ukrainian Orthodox priest confront an authority familiar from Sophocles: a ruler who believes his jurisdiction extends to the dead. Andriy must...
Bruce Dern was trying to change his professional identity when he made Silent Running. Douglas Trumbull’s science-fiction film gave a familiar screen villain a sympathetic lead, an opportunity to loosen...
Sophie has trouble keeping time, but her father helps pay the bills. That gives the auditions in Agnès Jaoui’s Crescendo a second selection process running alongside the singing. The Floral...
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Five Pizza Planet Tokens in each level give Buzz Lightyear a reason to investigate the oversized spaces of Toy Story...
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