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By the New York Times
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This crime drama follows the fall of a fictional motorcycle club in the 1960s.
In our opinion:
The first thing to know about “The Bikeriders” is that writer-director Jeff Nichols has improbably based the film on an e-book of totemic photographs of the same name through the wonderful American photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon. Movie stars Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy, a troika of charismatic bombshells who simply have to show up for me to do the same. With the support of an extensive cast of other beautiful and hard-working people, those three are a component of the attractions of a film that includes the seductions of beauty, the sensual lines of a human body, the curves of a stretcher.
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Yorgos Lanthimos’ newest is made up of 3 stories about domination and being dominated, and features performances by Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, and Willem Dafoe, who play other characters in the segment.
In our opinion:
“Kinds of Kindness” is a return to a safe form, so to speak, for director Yorgos Lanthimos, completely new from his warmer and more tender films “The Favourite” and “Poor Things. “His previous films, “Dogtooth,” “Alps,” “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and “The Lobster” (all four written with Efthimis Filippou, his collaborator on “Kinds”) are less accessible, more upset, less logical and more disturbing. Of course, why are they so polarizing. And I enjoyed it a lot. I hope that “Kinds of Kindness” will take its place among the latter group, with its vibrant, provocative stance and incredibly poor sense of humor.
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Playwright Annie Baker makes her first foray into film with this captivating drama about a transformative summer for an outsider between Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) and her mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson).
In our opinion:
“Janet Planet” is a little masterpiece, and it’s built so thoroughly, so loaded with detail, emotion and sweet comedy, that it’s very unlikely to fall apart once it gets under your skin. . . The elegant observations of “Janet Planet” make the evolution of the two characters almost imperceptible, hidden behind silences and unspoken words. You have to bend down to catch some of the details: the moments perceived from Lacy’s point of view, the look behind her eyes, the smile on Janet’s face. The films are based on moments of revelation, but in “Janet Planet” they spread rather slowly, much more like life.
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