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Senior Editor, Reviews, at The Hollywood Reporter. Member of @lafilmcritics.bsky.social. Alum @france24.com + International Herald Tribune. www.hollywoodreporter.com/author/jo…

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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not a banner fall fest season in terms of world premieres, but we nevertheless found 13 terrific movies to love on.
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The Best Films of the Fall Festivals: THR Critics’ Picks
A shape-shifting Elizabeth Holmes doc, a star vehicle for Mahershala Ali, and new gems from Mike Leigh and Lee Chang-dong were among THR reviewers’ 13 favorite world premieres out of Venice, Telluride...
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If Mike Leigh's TENDER LOVING CARE is his final film, what a lovely way to go out. Kate O'Flynn, cuppas, wine + goss, but also serious questions about the kind of people we (should) want to be + world we (should) want to live in. My Telluride review:
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‘Tender Loving Care’ Review: Kate O’Flynn Lights Up Mike Leigh’s Warm, Gently Wrenching Study of Solace and Solidarity
The 'Widow's Bay' star plays a London social worker in the English writer-director's Telluride-bowing film, co-starring Alice Bailey Johnson, Marion Bailey and Paul Jesson.
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
THR critics brainstormed, graded, debated, re-watched, ranked and re-ranked our 25 favorite documentaries of all time. Read, enjoy, let us know why/how/where we're wrong! (And seek out any of these amazing titles you're not familiar with.)
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The 25 Best Documentaries of All Time, Ranked
From 'Grey Gardens' to 'The Gleaners and I,' 'Gimme Shelter' to 'Grizzly Man' and beyond, THR critics pick their favorite non-fiction films of all time.
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David Rooney @david-rooney.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Big thanks to @lapressclub.bsky.social for the best film critic (over 1,000 words) win, and a shoutout to the reviews team's too often unsung editor, @jon-frosch.bsky.social. Congrats to all of THR's winners on a field-leading performance. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
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The Hollywood Reporter Tops 2026 SoCal Journalism Awards With 20 First-Place Wins, More Than Any Other Outlet
Among its awards are best website, journalist of the year honors for Gary Baum and Seth Abramovitch, best film critic for David Rooney, and best audio anchor/host for Scott Feinberg. Overall, THR nabb...
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David Rooney @david-rooney.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It's mid-point 2026, time for the THR critics team to pick our ten favorite movie releases of the year so far. Feel free to let us hear yours in the comments. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 10 Best Films of 2026 So Far
Faves from the first half of the year include a breakout blast of horror, the latest from auteurs both pop (Spielberg) and art house (Dardennes), and a doc that brings The King back from the afterlife...
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Hafsia Herzi's gorgeous THE LITTLE SISTER, with its stealth knockout of a lead performance by Nadia Melliti, starts hitting theaters today. I loved this film when I reviewed it out of Cannes last year — and love it even more now.
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Milagros Mumenthaler's haunting and beautiful THE CURRENTS, which I reviewed out of TIFF 2025, starts hitting theaters tomorrow. One to make time for.
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
LA GRADIVA in Critics' Week at Cannes is astonishing — an absolutely masterly feature debut, and one of the best films about adolescence I've ever seen. If this were in comp., it would be a clear Palme d'Or contender. Excited/nervous to see which smart U.S. distributor goes in.
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David Rooney @david-rooney.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Contemplating care and compassion in a profit-driven world, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's ALL OF A SUDDEN takes its time but blooms into a thing of beauty synced to the intense friendship of two women played by Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto. #Cannes2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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‘All of a Sudden’ Review: ‘Drive My Car’ Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Reflection on Care and Compassion Demands Patience but Yields Rich Rewards
Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto star in the filmmaker's first French-language work, set at a Paris nursing home where two strangers are fortified by their belief in human dignity.
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
If there was any question that Léa Drucker was one of France's best actresses, A WOMAN'S LIFE should be a definitive answer. Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet's Cannes competitor is good. Drucker, as a surgeon questioning her life choices, is great. My review: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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‘A Woman’s Life’ Review: Léa Drucker Seals Her Status as One of France’s Best Actresses in This Perceptive Portrait of a Surgeon at a Crossroads
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet's Cannes competition entry revolves around a 55-year-old Parisian doctor who begins questioning her life choices after a novelist takes an interest in her.
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
HEATED RIVALRY (lovely series, pity about some of those fans), THE PITT's strong sophomore outing, two decent Ryan Murphy shows (!), a couple of appealingly intimate franchise entries & more picks and pokes from @thefienprint.bsky.social and @ajhan.bsky.social @thr.com
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Sex, Scalpels and Surprises: THR Critics on Winter’s Must-See TV
'Heated Rivalry' came out of nowhere to steam things up, big-franchise spinoffs succeeded by going small, a Northern Irish Netflix mystery dazzled, and 'The Pitt' exceeded second-season expectations.
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Ramzi Bashour's HOT WATER is a nice (too nice?) mother-son road movie w/Lubna Azabal & Daniel Zolghadri, both good — has *just* enough that feels fresh and personal to stave off indie staleness. But a bit close for comfort. My @thr.com #Sundance2026 review: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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‘Hot Water’ Review: Lubna Azabal and Daniel Zolghadri Go West in a Slight but Sensitive Mother-Son Road Movie
Ramzi Bashour's debut feature follows a tightly wound Lebanese woman and her troubled American-born teenager as they drive from Indiana to California.
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David Rooney @david-rooney.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Count me among the HEATED RIVALRY flock. Women are devouring the HBO hit in phenomenal numbers but let's not overlook the gift that the gay hockey romance represents to queer audiences. Some words of gratitude: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-review...
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Critic’s Notebook: In Praise of ‘Heated Rivalry’ and Gay Happy Endings
Get your mind out of the gutter! The sex is hot, but it's the swoony romantic highs and tender insights into queer first love and self-acceptance that make HBO’s breakout hit special.
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"Rob Reiner grew, and grew righteously, in the small-screen spotlight." @thefienprint.bsky.social writes movingly on Reiner's TV legacy.
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From Meathead to Mentor: A Critic’s Reflection on Rob Reiner’s TV Career
From 'All in the Family' to regular news network advocacy to roles on 'New Girl' and 'The Bear,' Reiner grew, and grew righteously, in the small-screen spotlight.
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
"Reiner’s deft marrying of the prestige and the populist seems like a wondrous, nearly lost art." A lovely and insightful appreciation from @rilaws.bsky.social.
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Critic’s Appreciation: Rob Reiner Was So Much More Than a Capable Company Man
The director's deft marrying of prestige and populism in classics like 'When Harry Met Sally…' and 'The Princess Bride' now seems like a wondrous lost art.
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Some great left-field choices here from @thefienprint.bsky.social and @ajhan.bsky.social, as well as some stuff you've probably already enjoyed. An odd year for TV, but not an uninteresting one.
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best TV of 2025
Favorites include an Arctic-set heartwarmer, the second and final season of 'Andor,' a pair of new animated gems, a bold historical drama and a star-studded Hollywood satire.
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We saw some great movies in 2025, and lots of very, very good ones. @david-rooney.bsky.social and Sheri Linden
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2025
A multilayered political thriller, a dark-comedy salute to radical resistance, a ping-pong picaresque and a bluesy vampire tale set in Jim Crow Mississippi are among THR film reviewers’ favorites of t...
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Loved getting to hash out and dive into our favorite big-screen performances of the year with lovely critic colleagues @david-rooney.bsky.social and @ajhan.bsky.social.
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The 25 Best Movie Performances of 2025
From Timothée Chalamet's latest high-wire act to Amy Madigan's indelible horror villain to dynamic duos and standouts from around the globe, these were THR critics' favorite big-screen turns of the ye...
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Angie Han @ajhan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
what a joy to celebrate some of the very best performances of 2025, alongside @david-rooney.bsky.social & @jon-frosch.bsky.social
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The 25 Best Movie Performances of 2025
From Timothée Chalamet's latest high-wire act to Amy Madigan's indelible horror villain to dynamic duos and standouts from around the globe, these were THR critics' favorite big-screen turns of the ye...
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
New Generation Award: Eva Victor, SORRY BABY. #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Best Film: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Runner-up: THE SECRET AGENT. #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Film Not in the English Language: THE SECRET AGENT. Runner-up: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Runner-up: Ryan Coogler, SINNERS. #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Documentary: MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW. Runner-up: THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR. #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Screenplay: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. Runner-up: SORRY, BABY. #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Supporting Performance: Teyana Taylor, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Stellan Skarsgard, SENTIMENTAL VALUE. Runners-up: Andrew Scott, BLUE MOON. Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, SENTIMENTAL VALUE. #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Lead Performance: Rose Byrne, IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU. Ethan Hawke, BLUE MOON. Runners-up: Timothée Chalamet, MARTY SUPREME. Wagner Moura, THE SECRET AGENT. #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award: Albert Serra, AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE. Special Award: Thom Andersen for the body of his work. #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Animation: LITTLE AMELIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN. Runner-up: KPOP DEMON HUNTERS #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Editing: MARTY SUPREME. Runner-up: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Production design: SINNERS. Runner-up: FRANKENSTEIN. #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Music: SIRAT. Runner-up: SINNERS. #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Cinematography: TRAIN DREAMS. Runner-up: SINNERS #LAFCA
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Will be posting our @lafilmcritics.bsky.social results as we vote today. Starting soon!
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
... in which @thefienprint.bsky.social and @ajhan.bsky.social admit to loving ALL'S FAIR. I kid! A handful of good recs and many more great insights here, as usual.
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Critics’ Conversation: Heavyweights (and Horny Puppets) Pull Fall TV Back From the Brink
In a lackluster stretch for the small screen, the few home runs came mostly from established voices like Vince Gilligan ('Pluribus'), Sterlin Harjo ('The Lowdown') and Raphael Bob-Waksberg ('Long Stor...
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David Rooney @david-rooney.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Never would have guessed I'd have so much fun with a Ryan Murphy assignment, but my sage THR editor, @jon-frosch.bsky.social, knows me better than I know myself. BRB, just going to get salmon sperm facial-filler shots. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-review...
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Say What?! The 20 Most Jaw-Dropping Lines From ‘All’s Fair,’ Ranked
The first three episodes of Hulu’s pilloried legal soap from Ryan Murphy and Kris Jenner Productions have already served up a bonanza of truly bonkers dialogue (and a truckload of Birkin bags).
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Editing this was a truly joyful way to start the week. Thank you, @david-rooney.bsky.social!
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Say What?! The 20 Most Jaw-Dropping Lines From ‘All’s Fair,’ Ranked
The first three episodes of Hulu’s pilloried legal soap from Ryan Murphy and Kris Jenner Productions have already served up a bonanza of truly bonkers dialogue (and a truckload of Birkin bags).
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
So much fun to be on the Original and Adapted Screenplays committee for the Gothams this year with ace fellow critics @timgrierson.bsky.social @ezwrites.bsky.social @carlosfilm.bsky.social @mcastimovies.bsky.social. Proud of our choices and excited for these films.
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Gotham Film Awards Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another’ Leads With a Record Six Nods
'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' scored the second most nominations with four, followed by three-time nominees 'It Was Just an Accident,' 'No Other Choice' and 'My Father's Shadow.'
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Tim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
For the first time ever, the Gothams are giving out awards for adapted and original screenplay. Very happy to be on that inaugural committee, alongside @jon-frosch.bsky.social, @mcastimovies.bsky.social, @carlosfilm.bsky.social and @ezwrites.bsky.social. Here are our nominees.
Best Adapted Screenplay nominees for the Gothams:

No Other Choice, Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-Mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar (NEON)

One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Pillion, Harry Lighton (A24)

Preparation for the Next Life, Martyna Majok (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)

Train Dreams, Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar (Netflix)Best Original Screenplay nominees for the Gothams:

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Mary Bronstein (A24)

It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi (NEON)

The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho (NEON)

Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor (A24)

Sound of Falling, Louise Peter, Mascha Schilinski (MUBI)
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Excited to be recognized alongside my fantastic critic colleagues @david-rooney.bsky.social @thefienprint.bsky.social @ajhan.bsky.social and proud of all the Hollywood Reporter nominees @thr.com!
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The Hollywood Reporter Scores Record Number of Noms at National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, Including Best Publication
THR was nominated in 85 categories, including best investigative reporting, best podcast, best critic and print journalist of the year.
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Congrats to all! Honored.
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Our 2026 Career Achievement Award recipient is Philip Kaufman
Photo of Philip Kaufman wearing a white shirt and looking to the left, standing behind a camera.
“Intrepid doesn’t even begin to describe a director who, among his many considerable achievements, gave Indiana Jones his first assignment and inspired the NC-17 rating,” said LAFCA President Robert Abele. “A criminally underappreciated director, Philip Kaufman could never be pigeonholed, from his early days absorbing the independent spirit of homegrown DIY-ers and the European New Wave, to his cool, vivid command of genre in the ’70s, followed by a handful of uncompromising historical epics, including The Right Stuff and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, that belied anybody’s notion that American filmmakers couldn’t be versatile, intelligent and entertaining about big ideas. The L.A. Film Critics Association is immensely proud to be honoring this dyed-in-the-wool iconoclast.”
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Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Yikes yikes yikes yikes
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‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ Review: Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie Go on a Generic Road Trip of the Soul in Kogonada’s Cloying Misfire
The 'Columbus' and 'After Yang' helmer directs a Black List screenplay in this film also featuring Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Kevin Kline.
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David Rooney @david-rooney.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The Hollywood Reporter critics team rounds up 15 favorites from Venice, Telluride and Toronto, including new films from Guillermo del Toro, Kathryn Bigelow, Chloé Zhao, Jim Jarmusch, Laura Poitras and more. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Best of the Fall Fests: THR’s Critics Picks
A cathartic tearjerker about Shakespeare’s family, Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear threat thriller and a wrenching Gaza docudrama are among THR reviewers’ 15 faves out of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Really liked THE CURRENTS, a lush & hypnotic Argentinian drama about a designer who unravels very stoically after a work trip gone awry. TIFF and NYFF slots should give writer-director Milagros Mumenthaler a much-deserved bump in recognition. My review:
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‘The Currents’ Review: A Woman Who Has Everything Comes Undone in a Lusciously Crafted Argentinian Spellbinder
Writer-director Milagros Mumenthaler's film revolves around a successful young Buenos Aires fashion designer whose world is upended after a work trip gone awry.
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Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Shocker: I liked a movie in which Callum Turner is hot
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‘Eternity’ Review: Elizabeth Olsen Navigates a Post-Mortem Love Triangle in Pensive, Charming A24 Comedy
Miles Teller and Callum Turner also star in this glossy, mass-appeal rom-com, which premiered in Toronto before its planned November release.
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Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Another TIFF review! My Hollywood Reporter debut and already the word “hunk” is in the headline. I cannot be stopped
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‘Fuze’ Review: Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James Headline David Mackenzie’s Savvy, Hunk-Filled Heist Thriller
Sam Worthington and Gugu Mbatha-Raw costar in the latest film from the ‘Hell or High Water’ director to premiere in Toronto.
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Jon Frosch @jon-frosch.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
TWINLESS deserves so much better than whatever dog-days dump release it's getting. Dylan O'Brien gives one of the year's best, most surprising performances, & the film is twisted, funny & perceptive, w/shades of Almodovar. Super promising for writer/director/costar James Sweeney.
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David Rooney @david-rooney.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
It's eight years since Kathryn Bigelow's last film & she hasn't missed a beat. A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is a crackling thriller, precision-tooled, viscerally immersive, very much of a piece with THE HURT LOCKER and ZERO DARK THIRTY. Great stuff. #Venezia2025 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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‘A House of Dynamite’ Review: Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson in Kathryn Bigelow’s Precision-Tooled, Viscerally Unsettling Nail-Biter
The Netflix thriller captures from multiple perspectives the White House response to an unattributed missile launch headed for a major U.S. city in the harrowing 20 minutes until projected impact.
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