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The following table of contents contains Chaz Ebert’s video dispatches from Cannes 2022, produced by herself and Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, and written dispatches by Ben Kenigsberg, Jason Gorber, Lisa Nesselson and Barbara Scharres.  Video...

“There’s no shame in running. Don’t try to be heroes.” So says one of the new characters from “Stranger Things 4,” but we know better. El, Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Will and all the other characters, young...

Even as skilled a social satirist as Robert Altman got thrown off his game by the fashion world, which is almost a parody of itself. Early on in “Triangle of Sadness,” it looks like the Swedish director...

Being back at Cannes a mere 10 months after the Covid-affected fest last July feels equal parts surreal and familiar. Staying at the same apartment complex, walking the same streets, gorging on food at favourite locales...

Why is Mia Hansen-Løve’s “One Fine Morning” not in competition this year at Cannes, but instead showing in the Directors’ Fortnight program? You have to wonder, given that Hansen-Løve’s “Bergman Island” competed here last year and got a pretty good reception (though not quite from me)....

The Sundance-prizewinning “Emergency,” about three friends trying to get an overdosed young woman to an emergency room, never goes the way you expect. It starts out as a politically-minded campus buddy picture. Then it morphs into an “After Hours”...

In the original Prime Video series “Night Sky,” J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek play a longtime married couple who have their own little piece of heaven. In a metaphorical sense, it’s their longtime, lived-in relationship, in...

The excellent and infuriating “Hold Your Fire” has all the twists and turns of the best hostage movie thrillers. That it is a documentary supports the adage that truth is often stranger than fiction. Since the...

In “Armageddon Time,” James Gray brings together all the ideas about class, opportunity, the immigrant experience, and life in New York that have run through his films since “Little Odessa.” It’s his best movie since “The Immigrant,”...

RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert’s first video dispatch from the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, directed and edited by Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, includes commentary on the opening night screening of Michel Hazanavicius’ “Final Cut,” preceded by...