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Steven Spielberg returns to the theme of alien visitors with this all-star, much-anticipated blockbuster.
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The Dreamed Adventure: Valeska Grisebach’s haunting slow-burn western unearths dirty dealings in rural Bulgaria
As in Grisebach’s 2017 film Western, the battle here is a lawless one over land and resources as a tough archaeologist tries to protect her work site from an interfering mafioso.
By Savina Petkova
Inside a 1959 fan magazine for Marilyn Monroe
By Tamar Jeffers-McDonald
Time and Water: Iceland’s vanishing glaciers haunt this moving climate essay
By Rachel Pronger
The film that fate helped make a classic: The Misfits
By Geoff Andrew
Bitter Christmas: Pedro Almodóvar makes himself the butt of the joke in a slippery meta drama
By Jessica Kiang
Reservoir Cops: Quentin Tarantino on The Rip
By Quentin Tarantino
10 great Brazilian films directed by women
By Rafa Sales Ross
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