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Lumina-(2024)

Lumina (2024)

There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s “Lumina,” a film so breathtaking in its overall incompetence that one starts to wonder if it’s not intentionally so in the hope of being the next “The Room” or “Birdemic.” How else to explain some of the laughable shot choices, inconsistent characters, nonsensical […]

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Made-in-England:-The-Films-of-Powell-&-Pressburger-(2024)

Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger (2024)

At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger,” Martin Scorsese recounts how he first encountered the works of the legendary filmmaking duo of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger as a child under perhaps the worst conditions imaginable on his family’s black-and-white television in substandard and edited prints that made hash

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Sisi-&-I-(2024)

Sisi & I (2024)

Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t been that long since we’ve had a feature film on the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, commonly known to public as Sisi. That film was Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage” (2022), starring a stiff-lipped and often (aptly) unsmiling Vicky Krieps as the much-tormented 19th-Century royal. A

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Touch-(2024)

Touch (2024)

“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over decades, languages, continents, and cultures, with themes of memory, aging, loss, and love. But its sensibility is as exquisitely tender as the flutter of a butterfly wing. Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson) is an elderly widower and restaurant owner in Iceland who visits his doctor

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