Now playing the Cannes Film Festival, the new film from the director of The Square embarks on a luxury cruise that goes to hell.
Reviews
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Anabel Juárez’s Castles of Wonderment
By enshrining her memories into sculptural form, Juárez celebrates her emotional pilgrimage through the growing pains of childhood to adulthood.
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All Men Are Evil, According to This Film
In yet another horror movie that’s actually about trauma, writer-director Alex Garland makes his points bluntly, having one actor play many facets of misogyny.
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Willie Cole Recycles Musical Instruments Into Outstanding Sculptures
Time is itself a recycling process for Cole, whose freewheeling spirit transcends linearity in his excavations of art and music history.
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How Lee Alexander McQueen Spun History Into Fantasy
Drawing from a wide range of personal influences, McQueen deconstructed myths and facts and refashioned them into his desired story.
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Stanley Lewis in a Wayward World
Lewis’s tattered canvases and pasted over drawings mirror a world in need of constant upkeep and repair.
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David Attenborough Guides Us to the Time of the Dinosaurs
Prehistoric Planet is visually ambitious, but the docuseries often fails to contextualize those visuals for the curious viewer.
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Memories Remade With Charcoal and Ash
Artist Dan Jian makes the point that landscapes and memory are one and the same.
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Highlights From Columbia University’s MFA Thesis Exhibition
Every corner and crevice of Columbia University’s MFA Thesis show feels lived in, reflecting not just artists’ experience quarantining with their work, but also that of re-entering society.
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A Desert Biennial, Somewhere Between Settlers and Searchers
Sprawling across the Joshua Tree region, nine site-specific works consider the ways in which people have relocated to the desert, destroying what came before them, and cultivating new life.
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The Tsugua Diaries is More than an Arthouse Summer Hangout Movie
The plot of Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes’s film moves backward in time, continually recontextualizing what at first looks like a simple situation.
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How Hollywood Has Helped Colonize Hawaiʻi
Anthony Banua-Simon’s documentary Cane Fire contrasts decades of Hollywood images of his home with its current reality.