It immediately says something about the differences between Jean Cocteau's brilliant 1928 dramatic monologue The Human Voice — as first put on screen in 1948 by Roberto Rossellini with the immortal Anna Magnani — and Pedro Almodovar's new version of it starring Tilda Swinton, that the latter features six costume…

Mexico's entry to the International Feature Film Oscar race, Fernando Frias’ I'm No Longer Here (Ya No Estoy Aqui), is an ultra-skillful, if sometimes dramatically undernourished account of an enterprising teenager's attempt to move beyond a life on the streets. There's no question that the young director knows what…

A vibrant account of a long-term love affair between two aging women neighbors takes on teasing Fatal Attraction overtones in Two Of Us, the sharp-minded and shrewdly styled feature debut by French director and co-writer Filippo Meneghetti. First screened at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival and this year’s submission…

If someone had told me a year ago that I would never set foot in a movie theater or screening room in 2020 after the first week of March (the impressive The Outpost and lousy The Hunt were the last films I saw on big screens) but that I would remain healthy and somehow seeing new films, I couldn't have guessed what…

This has been a trying year for movies, with the closing of cinemas in the pandemic, and a pivot by many filmmakers and stars to streaming service projects. As we wait for the boom times to return once a Covid vaccine establish herd immunity and movie theaters fill again, it seemed worthwhile to reflect on what a…

Christian Petzold has arguably been Germany's most consistently impressive filmmaker over the past decade, but he comes up more than a bit wet with Undine, a kind of arty variation on Splash. Paula Beer, who made her mark in the director's stunningly controlled drama Transit two years ago and in March won the Berlin…

Steve McQueen's Small Axe portmanteau of five roughly hourlong films centered on racial issues in second-half 20th century UK wraps up with Education, which, at the end of the day, is what the series is all about: education in terms of the efforts of different segments of the population to begin to understand each…

At the center of Thomas Vinterberg's new film Another Round lies one of the eternal questions—does alcohol help open up the mind to stimulate or even liberate the imagination in helpful ways that might not have occurred otherwise, or is it, at the end of the day, a harmful depressant and mind-decayer, as well as a…

With the arrival of Alex Wheatle, the fourth of five installments that make up Small Axe, Steve McQueen's adamant and penetrating series of roughly hourlong dramas centering on the Black immigrant community experience in post-World War II Britain, the emerging core concern is the hypocrisy involved in the nation…

As Deadline continues to expand its footprint internationally, we launch International Critics Line as a way to incorporate regular reviews of the fine local-language films being made outside of America. These films always have served as a seed bed to break new directors and stars in Hollywood, and we intend to spend m…

For many dozens of Norman Lloyd's closest friends, one of the most highly anticipated events of every year has long been the great character actor Norman Lloyd's birthday party on November 6. The countdown (or, more accurately, count-up) to 100 was a much-relished slow-motion occasion, but Norman has long since put…

In a few months Citizen Kane will be 80 years old, all involved now long-since departed, its status as one of the greatest films of all time as solid as ever. You'd think any old beefs would by now be gone with the wind, but no. With the imminent appearance of David Fincher's stimulating and beautiful new film Mank…