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Deadline’s Top International Films Of 2022
As 2022 draws to an end, Deadline's critics have each chosen their top three movies of the year to hail from abroad. Some were festival world premieres, and some have made the International Feature Oscar shortlist (not all were put forth by their country of origin, nor are they each in a foreign…
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By Pete Hammond, Todd McCarthy, Valerie Complex, Damon Wise, Anna Smith, Stephanie Bunbury
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‘One Piece Film Red’ Review – Int’l Critics Line
As a movie tie-in, it takes some beating. One Piece Film Red has been released as the manga comic strip on which it is based celebrates 25 years of existence and its 1000th published episode, every one of which has been authored by Eiichiro Oda, executive producer of the new film. Think about that. There…
Int’l Critics Line: Iceland’s Oscar Entry ‘Beautiful Beings’
Iceland's entry for the Best International Feature Oscar is a tense, tender portrait of teenage boyhood. The second feature from writer-director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson (Heartstone), Beautiful Beings world premiered in Berlin Panorama, where it won the Europa Cinemas Label.
Awards continue for…
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By Anna Smith
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Int’l Critics Line: ‘The Legend Of Maula Jatt’
It isn't hard to believe that Bilal Lashari's The Legend of Maula Jatt is, by some multiples, the most expensive film ever to come out of Pakistan. In the works since 2013, held up first by a copyright battle and then by Covid, it was finally released this month, thrilling audiences with its vast sets…
Int’l Critics Line: Fatih Akin’s ‘Rheingold’
East and west clash in Rheingold, the latest feature from Fatih Akin, which takes him back to the streets of urban Germany after 2019's controversial serial-killer drama The Golden Glove. This too, though, is a biopic of sorts, with a similarly notorious subject matter: Kurdish rapper, record label boss…
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By Damon Wise
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Int’l Critics Line: Zurich Audience Award Winner ‘Becoming Giulia’
It's interesting to see a documentary exploring the challenges for a new mother returning to work – and when that new mother happens to be a prima ballerina, the results are especially fascinating. Laura Kaehr's engrossing documentary Becoming Giulia won the Audience Award at the Zurich Film Festival, and…
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By Anna Smith
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Int’l Critics Line: Frelle Petersen’s ‘Forever’
A close-knit Danish family struggles with loss in Forever, Frelle Petersen's drama that debuted at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Shortlisted by Denmark as its submission for the International Feature Oscar (Holy Spider was ultimately selected as the entry), it's a quiet, thoughtful charmer that…
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By Anna Smith
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Int’l Critics Line: Marco Martins’ ‘Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures’
An authentic insight into migrant workers in Britain, the feature drama Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures is an engrossing work that premiered in the San Sebastian Film Festival competition. Directed by Marco Martins (Alice), who co-writes with Ricardo Adolfo, it follows the tough life of Tânia (a…
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By Anna Smith
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Int’l Critics Line: Penélope Cruz In ‘On The Fringe’
Falling somewhere between Ken Loach's most recent films about poverty (Sorry, We Missed You; I, Daniel Blake) and a telenovela, On the Fringe, Juan Diego Botto's debut as a director, sets out to give a snapshot of Spain's eviction crisis. An end-title tells us that around a hundred households are evicted every day in…
Int’l Critics Line: Petr Vaclav’s Czech Oscar Entry ‘Il Boemo’
The Czech composer who inspired Mozart is the subject of Il Boemo, a handsome period biopic that premiered in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Written and directed by Petr Vaclav (Marian), it's an entertaining insight into Josef Mysliveček's music and his hedonistic lifestyle, with an operatic running…
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By Anna Smith
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‘KGF: Chapter 2’ Review: Yash In Prashanth Neel’s Hit Sequel
It takes a lot of confidence to wear a white suit to a fight in an open-cut mine. It takes something else — maybe an Avengers-style superpower, to repel dirt — to come out of said fight still gleaming, shirt collar tidily spread across those snowy lapels, shades on. Rocky, outlaw hero of KGF, has confidence to burn…
Int’l Critics Line: Alia Bhatt In ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’
"Save your over-acting for the movies," Ganga's boyfriend Ramnik (Varun Kapoor) advises her, as she gasps with exaggerated joy at the train ticket to Mumbai — home of Bollywood, the world's biggest film industry — he holds up to her in Gangubai Kathiawadi. It's a knowingly self-aware joke. Popular as they are…
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