A brave broadcast journalist warns of widespread nationalistic propaganda on television news in this powerful indictment of the sorry state of media and hate politics in India.
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While We Watched (2022)
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Tag / 2022
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
It does make some attempt in drawing out a poignant story about grief and loss, with Letitia Wright particularly impressive, but this sequel doesn’t quite scale the heights of the first movie’s creative spirit, or share its tautness.
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Ajoomma (2022)
A promising and polished debut feature, this Singapore-Korean co-production has earnestness in abundance even if the storytelling doesn’t quite offer anything markedly revelatory.
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Triangle of Sadness (2022)
High society is taken apart with a ruthless hand in Ostlund’s new Cannes Palme d’Or-winning dark comedy that doesn’t always hit the mark but is nevertheless effective in fulfilling its social commentary aims.
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Tori and Lokita (2022)
Two young Africans exiled in Belgium must navigate treacherous waters in the Dardennes’ latest social realist work, which is as clear-eyed and powerful as some of their finest output.
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Pacifiction (2022)
Serra’s latest ‘slow cinema’ effort is at times hypnotic and beguiling, though it isn’t always consistently rewarding as he weaves a tale set in Tahiti about a stagnating High Commissioner who becomes privy to the prospect of something unimaginably nightmarish happening to his beloved French Polynesian island.
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Crimes of the Future (2022)
Cronenberg’s new sci-fi body horror is packed with fascinating ideas, but the film somewhat falls short in its half-baked attempt to realise them.
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Blonde (2022)
Dominik plays the miserabilist here in a relentlessly grim work that could be both intolerable and misunderstood at the same time, reimagining and dissecting Marilyn Monroe as an exploited emblem of what is wrong with our phallocentric world.
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Burning Days (2022)
One of Turkey’s most underrated directors reaches new filmmaking heights in this terrific slow-burn of a psychological thriller, set in a sweltering, water-scarce town in danger of imploding.
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Holy Spider (2022)
Abbasi’s disquieting based-on-a-true-story work about an unorthodox serial killer who ‘takes care’ of prostitutes in the name of religion is as dark as they come, set in the most unexpected of locations—the holy Iranian city of Mashhad.
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