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Their Last Documentary Won the Oscar. Their New One Is Just as Urgent—and Even More Controversial. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Between its premieres at the Venice and New York film festivals, the Israeli documentary NAZA has been seen by something on the order of a few thousand people in the world. But that hasn’t stopped many more from having their own, often extreme, opinions about the film, its makers, and whether it should exist in the first place. Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, who shared las
Robert Pattinson’s Latest Is a Sleazy Movie About a Sleazy Show. It Could Become Just as Much of a Sensation. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. We enter the world of Primetime through the unblinking eye of a security camera, as NBC journalist Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) closes in on his latest target: a Marine combat veteran (Tony Revolori) who has arranged to meet a teenager for sex. The sting house where Hansen and his To Catch a Predator crew have set up shop is fitted with hidden cameras that reduce Marrie
Danny Boyle’s Controversial New Movie Takes on Rupert Murdoch. It’s a Wild Ride. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Perhaps the hourlong lines to buy Criterion Collection Blu-rays should have been a dead giveaway, but one of the surprising winners at the Toronto International Film Festival this year was physical media. Like most festivals, TIFF’s projectors have gone fully digital, but onscreen, print journalism in particular was alive and well. Or at least alive. Danny Boyle’s Ink, whi
A New PBS Documentary Offers a Gentle Message to Our Polarized Times. I Hated It. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Philadelphia’s collar counties are some of the most sought-after real estate in American politics, the swingingest part of a critical swing state. And Bucks County, which sprawls northward along the New Jersey border, is the most evenly divided of them all. In 2024, the county cast more than 400,000 votes for president; Donald Trump won by fewer than 300. So it was a shock
A Major New Oscar Contender Has Arrived. It Is Once Again About … Putting on Hamlet. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For the second year in a row, the Toronto International Film Festival’s audience prize might go to a movie about putting on Hamlet. Last year, of course, the People’s Choice Award—a reliable, if not infallible, bellwether of a Best Picture nomination—was Hamnet, which doubled down on Shakespeare’s greatest fictional tragedy by fusing it with the real-life death of his 11-y
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