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#459 May 30, 2023

Matt writes: The 2023 Cannes Film Festival may have concluded this past weekend, yet there are still a few enticing dispatches that have yet to be published on RogerEbert.com. You can find all of our coverage, both written and in video form, in this table of contents, featuring reports from Chaz Ebert, Ben Kenigsberg, Jason […]

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#459 May 30, 2023

Matt writes: The 2023 Cannes Film Festival may have concluded this past weekend, yet there are still a few enticing dispatches that have yet to be published on RogerEbert.com. You can find all of our coverage, both written and in video form, in this table of contents, featuring reports from Chaz Ebert, Ben Kenigsberg, Jason

#459 May 30, 2023 Read More »

#459 May 30, 2023

Matt writes: The 2023 Cannes Film Festival may have concluded this past weekend, yet there are still a few enticing dispatches that have yet to be published on RogerEbert.com. You can find all of our coverage, both written and in video form, in this table of contents, featuring reports from Chaz Ebert, Ben Kenigsberg, Jason

#459 May 30, 2023 Read More »

#459 May 30, 2023

Matt writes: The 2023 Cannes Film Festival may have concluded this past weekend, yet there are still a few enticing dispatches that have yet to be published on RogerEbert.com. You can find all of our coverage, both written and in video form, in this table of contents, featuring reports from Chaz Ebert, Ben Kenigsberg, Jason

#459 May 30, 2023 Read More »

#459 May 30, 2023

Matt writes: The 2023 Cannes Film Festival may have concluded this past weekend, yet there are still a few enticing dispatches that have yet to be published on RogerEbert.com. You can find all of our coverage, both written and in video form, in this table of contents, featuring reports from Chaz Ebert, Ben Kenigsberg, Jason

#459 May 30, 2023 Read More »

#459 May 30, 2023

Matt writes: The 2023 Cannes Film Festival may have concluded this past weekend, yet there are still a few enticing dispatches that have yet to be published on RogerEbert.com. You can find all of our coverage, both written and in video form, in this table of contents, featuring reports from Chaz Ebert, Ben Kenigsberg, Jason

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Great Expectations

I beg of you, writers, enough with the gritty remakes. The single star which I have awarded FX’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” belongs to the following people: Olivia Colman, reliably excellent as Miss Havisham; Matthew Needham, having an absolute ball playing a demented spice baron; Matt Berry, given too little screen time as

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The Five Devils

French writer/director Léa Mysius concocts a compelling witch’s brew with “The Five Devils,” but the result doesn’t quite come together with the potency she’d desired. With her second feature, Mysius tells a story about racism, sexism, small-town provincialism, and homophobia, all within the alluring swirl of a supernatural thriller. There’s also a time-travel element that

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The Tutor

Garrett Hedlund’s is a screen presence I can take or leave alone. So it’s saying something that about halfway through this remarkably inconsequential thriller, I was thinking, “What did the poor guy do to deserve this?” And then thinking similar thoughts about Victoria Justice, who plays Annie, his pregnant girlfriend.  “The Tutor,” directed by Jordan Ross

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Showtime’s Yellowjackets Expands in Ambitious Second Season

At first, the new season of Showtime’s hit “Yellowjackets” concerned me. Its first couple episodes don’t quite have the buzz of last year, in part because of how the storytelling seems like it’s cleaning up a few things from the Emmy-nominated first season but also because it’s reasonable to worry that this show doesn’t quite

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