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Cannes 2026 Video #8: Dua, I’ll Be Gone in June, La Gradiva

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival starts Tuesday, May 12th, running through May 24th. The Ebert team returns this year with coverage of all of the major films in review and video form. In this video dispatch, Scott Dummler interviews correspondent Marya E. Gates about her three favorite films from the festival, and we get a Cannes

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Netflix’s “The Boroughs” Offers a Clever Spin on the “Stranger Things” Formula

The easy shorthand for how to describe Netflix’s “The Boroughs” is that it’s like “Stranger Things” with walkers instead of bicycles, and that’s not just because of the foundational similarities in its plotting. The score, the credits font, and even the creature design all share a bit of that Duffer Brothers flavor, which makes sense

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I’m Trying to Create Visceral Things: Boots Riley on “I Love Boosters”

Boots Riley is one of the few American filmmakers who are most visibly invested in conversations about class, capitalism, and aesthetics in their works. He pushes each subject to the point of breaking in absurdist works whose visual ambition and thematic audacity can often feel as knowingly chaotic as our contemporary world. With “Sorry to

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Cannes 2026: Clarissa, Atonement, Butterfly Jam

The Director’s Fortnight sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival has become a target of debate in recent years, sometimes viewed as “the films that didn’t get into the main Cannes program.” While it may be true for a few films, there’s a lot of quality in DF, not only exemplified by the excellent clip reel

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“Dutton Ranch” Keeps the Barn Doors Open for the “Yellowstone” Franchise

The last we saw of Kelly Reilly’s Beth and Cole Hauser’s Rip in the series finale of “Yellowstone,” they had just settled into their new home, a ranch in the quiet outpost of Dillon, Montana. For one perfect, sun-dappled moment, it appeared as if Beth and Rip and their teenage ward Carter (Finn Little) might

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Michael Sheen and David Tennant’s Emotional Connection Grounds a Bittersweet “Good Omens” Finale

Put plainly, it’s a wonder that the “Good Omens” finale even exists. In the wake of a series of sexual misconduct and assault allegations against creator Neil Gaiman, production on the series’s third season was paused indefinitely. Although Gaiman has repeatedly denied the claims, it certainly felt like the Prime Video comedy about the unorthodox

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Peacock Takes Us Back to Miami for “M.I.A” Vice and Vengeance

The new Peacock series “M.I.A” could be called “Miami Vice: The Reversal.” This nine-episode revenge saga is equal parts crime drama and nighttime soap about the clash between two families and the ruin that follows. However, it hinges on the duo of Etta Tiger Jonze (Shannon Gisela) and Lovely (Brittany Adebumola), and on the seemingly

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How “In a Lonely Place” Changed Noir’s Direction

There’s something the matter with Dix Steele—the protagonist in Dorothy B. Hughes’ 1947 novel In a Lonely Place and in its 1950 adaptation of the same name directed by Nicholas Ray—and the women around him sense it.   You could call it feminine intuition. The detective in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” does so when Grace Kelly’s

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“The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek” is a Serviceably Grim Nordic Noir Thriller

No one does a dark and grisly murder like the Scandinavians. The steadily rising popularity of Nordic noir is a testament to this fact, as viewers of all stripes continue to embrace the twisty, chilly subgenre, known for its flawed protagonists, moody visuals, bleak subject matter, and slow-burn approach to storytelling. Usually quite a bit

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Home Entertainment Guide April 2026: Send Help, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Highest 2 Lowest, More

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Beast““Benedetta““Bugonia““The End of the Tour““First Reformed““HIM““Krisha““Mass““Pig““Sing Street“ 12 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple“ It’s legitimately hard to believe this played in multiplexes across the country. Sure, last year’s “28 Years Later” was legitimately intense, but this follow-up from Nia DaCosta is even more unhinged in consistently mesmerizing

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