Steve Pond
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Steve Pond
Steve Pond’s inside look at the artistry and insanity of the awards race, drawn from more than three decades of obsessively chronicling the Oscars and the entertainment industry.
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Cannes Awards Go to ‘Black Dog,’ ‘Universal Language,’ ‘Simon of the Mountain’
Cannes 2024: The Palme d’Or and other awards will be handed out at the festival’s closing ceremony on Saturday
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‘Parthenope’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino Whips Up More Great Beauty in Melancholic Tale
Cannes 2024: Gary Oldman has a small but essential role in another languorous romance from the Italian director
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‘Anora’ Review: Sean Baker Whips Up a Wild Stripper Romance Thriller Comedy, or Something Like That
Cannes 2024: The film swings wildly back and forth while also hanging onto its heart, and it’s just too much fun to worry about how much Baker is cramming in
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‘The Shrouds’ Review: David Cronenberg’s Exploration of Grief Is as Sad as It Is Creepy
Cannes 2024: Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger star in a movie inspired by the 2017 death of the director’s wife
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‘The Apprentice’ Review: Donald Trump Movie Starring Sebastian Stan Plays Like a Tragic Frankenstein Tale
Cannes 2024: With Stan as a young Trump and Jeremy Strong as lawyer Roy Cohn, the film is amusing at times and disturbing at others
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Cannes So Far: Filmmakers Go Mega in a Muted Festival
Cannes 2024: At a festival still recovering from a pandemic and strikes, the directors have taken big swings
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‘Horizon: An American Saga’ Review: Kevin Costner Unveils a Sprawling, Old-Fashioned Western
Cannes 2024: The first of a projected four movies is a corny, rousing epic for people who say they don’t make ’em like that anymore
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‘Jim Henson Idea Man’ Review: Ron Howard Takes a Loving, Honest Look at Muppets Creator
Cannes 2024: Skillful, honest and sympathetic, this is the kind of film you’d want about Jim Henson
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‘Caught by the Tides’ Review: Jia Zhangke Stands Up for China but Watches Things Fall Apart
Cannes 2024: The film is an elegy of sorts, at times angry and abrasive but more often gentle and reflective
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Francis Ford Coppola Hasn’t Seen Those ‘Megalopolis’ Reviews Yet
Cannes 2024: “I’m told it went over very well,” says the legendary director of his wild and divisive epic
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‘Kinds of Kindness’ Review: Yorgos Lanthimos Brings Back Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe for a Surreal Creep-Fest
Cannes 2024: “The Favourite” and “Poor Things” were fun, but this trio of dark and disturbing stories is old-style Lanthimos
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‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ Review: African Story Slips Between Fable and Hard Reality
Cannes 2024: Rungano Nyoni’s follow-up to “I Am Not a Witch” is timely, but it also exists completely out of time
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‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Review: Anya Taylor-Joy Takes Over in a Brutal Return to Fury Road
Cannes 2024: The fifth “Mad Max” installment contains as many vehicular stunts as a “Fast & Furious” flick but still felt at home in the Grand Theatre Lumiere at Cannes
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‘Wild Diamond’ Review: Cannes Character Study Is Empathetic and Unforgiving
Cannes 2024: First-time director Agathe Riedinger presents social media and reality TV stardom as a pie-in-the-sky way to escape a life of poverty
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A Serious Cannes Film Festival Opens With a Goofy Comedy, ‘The Second Act’
Cannes 2024: Quentin Dupieux’s film about the making of the first AI movie is an amusing trifle, and very meta