Clarel
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Articles by Clarel
- Maha Harada's First Film Leaves San Sebastián with Two Awards
- Hollow Eyes Belmont Cameli for Brom Bones Opposite Sydney Sweeney
- Ray Gunn builds the future as if 1939 never ended
- Independent cinema is not short on releases: seven films from around the world to watch right now
- Wildwood finally shows its full scale as LAIKA returns after seven years with a forest at war
- Sam Mendes' new Beatles just recreated A Hard Day's Night — and Beatlemania is becoming part of the story
- Cliff Booth is back in 1977, and David Fincher has turned Tarantino's fairy tale into a Hollywood crime story
- Tenebris Somnia uses the old monster-in-latex trick to make its pixel art much more frightening
- Nicolas Winding Refn returns to theaters after 10 years with Her Private Hell
- Sense and Sensibility returns to theaters with the Dashwood sisters taking priority over their suitors
- Robert Pattinson turns To Catch a Predator into a thriller as Primetime reaches theaters
- The Family Stone is coming back 20 years later, and almost everyone is coming home for Christmas
- Pride and Prejudice arrives December 3 as Netflix finally opens the doors to the entire Bennet household
- The Inbetweeners 3 is actually filming, and all four disasters are back 16 years later
- World War Z 2 crawls back from the grave as Brad Pitt returns with Edward Berger directing
- Guru takes away John Abraham's most reliable weapon: knowing what is real
- Sense and Sensibility shifts the focus: this time the Dashwood sisters come before their suitors
- Sunrise on the Reaping puts 48 tributes in the arena and shows exactly what broke Haymitch
- Sacrifice wants to throw Chris Evans into a volcano, and Romain Gavras is clearly not aiming small
- Do You See Ghosts? connects three Canadian nightmares through one haunted hotline
- If Only Tonight We Could Sleep turns insomnia into queer body horror at a mysterious 1960s sanatorium
- She, Crocodile turns a wealthy heiress into an apex predator as Brazil's body-horror project heads to Tokyo
- Lincoln in the Bardo keeps adding an absurd cast around Tom Hanks, but the strangest part is its format
- Greta Lee and Cooper Hoffman join Jonah, a stage adaptation keeping its original creative core
- Anthony Hopkins will control humanity's last survivors in 2048, a dystopia that literally drives civilization underground
- Otherwise Engaged puts Halle Berry, Zoë Kravitz and Colin Firth in the middle of one very inconvenient wedding
- Halsey dives into horror with Replacer, and her first leading movie role is getting weird
- Godzilla Minus Zero's new trailer returns to the wounds Minus One never really closed
- Sebastian Stan invokes The Godfather Part II while keeping his Batman role firmly secret
- Kore-eda brings Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back to Venice — and treats drawing as cinema
- Eight years after Burning, Lee Chang-dong returns to a wound South Korea never quite closed
- Wildwood will open AFI Fest after LAIKA spent 16 years finding its way through the forest
- Michael Mann has recut Miami Vice again — twenty years later, the movie still isn't finished changing
- The Inbetweeners 3 is officially filming at Netflix — and yes, the yellow Fiat survived
- Danny Boyle puts generative AI into Ink — for roughly 30 seconds
- Nathan Fielder secretly filmed Elizabeth Holmes for three years, and A24 just revealed the documentary
- A Real Life Party Films an Actual Awkward Night Out and Turns the Apartment Into an Interactive Set
- Resident Evil turns Raccoon City into one long horror gauntlet instead of remaking Leon's story
- All of a Sudden asks for 196 minutes, and Cannes already rewarded both women at its centre
- The Weight brings Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe into a gold-smuggling nightmare
- Beautiful Life Show Makes Your Previous Deaths Part of the Cast
- The Social Reckoning exists because Facebook is no longer the company Aaron Sorkin wrote about in 2010
- Sandra Hüller will play Wolfgang Herrndorf in Maria Schrader's Work and Structure
- Kill Jackie trailer puts Catherine Zeta-Jones back in the business of surviving
- Lincoln in the Bardo gives Meryl Streep four roles, not one
- David Fincher is taking Quentin Tarantino's Cliff Booth into a very different Hollywood
- The Mosquito Bowl turns a real 1944 football game into Peter Berg’s next war film
- Fjord's first trailer turns a perfect family portrait into a child welfare case
- The Social Reckoning turns Facebook's origin story into a whistleblower drama
- Cristian Mungiu has won Cannes twice, but the nineteen years between his Palmes tell the better story
- Peter Jackson's Honorary Palme d'Or began with a 26-minute gamble at Cannes in 2001
- Avengers: Doomsday finally gives its enormous crossover a center: Doctor Doom
- Dune: Part Three is a thriller because Paul Atreides has already won
- Dune: Part Three is changing how Arrakis is photographed without abandoning digital
- Brad Pitt let the dog lead on Heart of the Beast
- The Unknown gives Arthur Harari a deceptively simple body-swap problem
- Josh Brolin nearly walked away from The Dog Stars before Ridley Scott's method clicked
- Cannes winner Fjord is now in French theaters, and its conflict starts at home
- Matthew McConaughey discovered a bee allergy just before filming a movie full of real bees