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The pilot of Anaesthesia moves Dawid Łazarz from professional disgrace to a fresh appointment before he has much opportunity to examine the disgrace. After a young patient dies during surgery, the Warsaw neurosurgeon punches his clinic director and is dismissed. His drive to a lakeside retreat takes him past a train collision, where he joins the rescue effort. The emergency gives the small, poorly equipped Suwałki hospital an urgent reason to need him. It also gives him somewhere to be useful while the questions he has left behind remain unanswered. Director Łukasz Ostalski makes that usefulness difficult to dispute. When...

Celia Imrie gives her Scrooge audition the force of someone who has found a use for all that seasonal ill temper. For a moment, the retirement home's production of A Christmas Carol acquires an edge that the surrounding film usually smooths away. Dickens sounds available for argument again. The pleasure lies in watching a resident become an interpreter of a familiar text, with something to contribute beyond the reassuring sight of an older person joining in. Then the part goes to a less accomplished performer. That decision brings the peculiar obligations of amateur theatre into focus: artistic ability has to...

Douglas Gordon keeps giving Finlay Pretsell instructions for the film we are watching. A voicemail complains about how long the project is taking. Elsewhere, Gordon supplies a cue for the next part and requests discretion about his occasionally depleted toilet-paper supply. These interventions have an appealing domestic cheek: the Scottish artist can fuss over his documentary as someone else might fuss over a visiting friend's dinner. They also make it difficult to settle into listening. Even when he appears to welcome attention, he is busy arranging what that attention should find. The opening rush of dance music, artwork fragments, and...

So-ri stands up for Ji-min and becomes a target herself. In Kim Yong-hwan's South Korean animated film Your Letter, defending another pupil carries a social cost that being right cannot cancel. The girls can at least face the hostility together until Ji-min has to move away. Her departure has no malice behind it, which makes the loss harder to argue with. So-ri is left facing the consequences of her intervention without the companionship that made them bearable. Adapting Hyeon A. Cho's webtoon, Kim gives this separation enough weight to make the prospect of finding new friends feel risky. Dong-soon, whom...

Peter Quill gets a combat bonus even when he gives a bad pep talk. Fill the huddle gauge in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Encore Edition, gather the crew, and choose words that suit their mood. Read them correctly and everyone benefits. Misread them and Peter still receives a boost. It is an amusingly generous arrangement for the man giving the speech, and a revealing measure of how gently the game handles his responsibilities. Those responsibilities become more demanding once the shooting resumes. Only Peter is directly playable, but his teammates supply attacks that change what he can accomplish. Rocket’s...

Nellie Kurtzman visits cartoonist Denis Kitchen to sort through her father’s artwork, correspondence, and accumulated papers, with a museum among the possibilities for their future. She also worries about creating a shrine. These conversations give The_Mad_World_of_Harvey_Kurtzman_Review.md an unfinished task alongside its account of a completed life. Harvey Kurtzman died in 1993, leaving a body of work that extends far beyond his creation of MAD. His daughter and his friend must decide how to make that record available without reducing the man to an exhibit. Kurtzman participates through archival television appearances, including a Canadian talk-show interview in which he discusses his...
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Read moreDetailsLatvia has chosen “Ulya,” a black-and-white drama inspired by Soviet-era basketball star Uljana Semjonova, as its submission for the international feature Oscar, and its director says the film is drawing crowds at home. Director Viesturs Kairišs told The Hollywood Reporter that “Ulya” has sold about 105,000 tickets in Latvia since...
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Read moreThe pilot of Anaesthesia moves Dawid Łazarz from professional disgrace to a fresh appointment before he has much opportunity to examine the disgrace. After a young patient dies during surgery,...
Celia Imrie gives her Scrooge audition the force of someone who has found a use for all that seasonal ill temper. For a moment, the retirement home's production of A...
Latvia has chosen “Ulya,” a black-and-white drama inspired by Soviet-era basketball star Uljana Semjonova, as its submission for the international feature Oscar, and its director says the film is drawing...
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Milcho Manchevski’s “Sister Brother Manhole Cover” won the Tokyo Grand Prix on Wednesday, giving the North Macedonian director the top prize at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival. A jury...
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Douglas Gordon keeps giving Finlay Pretsell instructions for the film we are watching. A voicemail complains about how long the project is taking. Elsewhere, Gordon supplies a cue for the...
So-ri stands up for Ji-min and becomes a target herself. In Kim Yong-hwan's South Korean animated film Your Letter, defending another pupil carries a social cost that being right cannot...
Peter Quill gets a combat bonus even when he gives a bad pep talk. Fill the huddle gauge in Marvel’s...
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