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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Leads Spirit Award Noms

The multiverse-hopping adventure film "Everything Everywhere All At Once" had a leading eight nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards with nods for best feature, best director, best lead actor for Michelle Yeoh, supporting actors Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis and breakthrough for Stephanie Hsu. The organization announced…

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Single Olivia Wilde risks awkward run-in with Florence Pugh after Harry Styles split

Olivia Wilde, 38, made a solo appearance at the star-studded Governors Awards following her split from Harry Styles. The actress was joined by her Don't Worry Darling co-star Florence Pugh at the bash, who she famously nicknamed 'Miss Flo'

Daily Mirror

‘People now trust that my ideas work’: is this Australia’s most acclaimed theatre director?

Kip Williams has revolutionised the stage with his use of ‘cine-theatre’, in shows such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde. Ahead of his take on The Tempest, he talks about his fast rise

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Female conductors, composers are still rarities in classical music. How can that change?

DALLAS — The acclaimed new movie "Tár" is stirring up controversy with its portrayal of Lydia Tár, a fictional female conductor. Tár, played by Cate Blanchett, is predatory, controlling and abuses her power throughout the movie.

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Q&A: Todd Field and Cate Blanchett go deeper into ‘Tár’

When Cate Blanchett stepped out of her first screening for “Tár,” she wanted to immediately go back and watch it again

The Independent UK

Oscar-tipped drama Tár thrillingly captures digital and cancel culture

Todd Field’s first film in 15 years is a surprising triumph, one of the few to take on the knottiness of so-called ‘cancel culture’ and succeed

The Guardian - US

'Black Adam,' 'Ticket to Paradise': Movies to see or skip this weekend

Dwayne Johnson is superbad in "Black Adam," George Clooney and Julia Roberts are on an island getaway in "Ticket to Paradise" and Cate Blanchett kicks off her Oscar campaign in "Tár," all of which are among this week's new movies and streaming titles.

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So how well does Cate Blanchett handle a baton? A couple of critics hash out the personalities and classical music in ‘Tár’

CHICAGO — The new Cate Blanchett film “Tár” is no issue movie. It has, however, brought a lot of rarified and/or unfashionable issues back into the spotlight: symphony orchestra politics; the cost of obsessive artistic ambition and devotion to a calling; and, for writer-director Todd Field, the challenge and allure…

Chicago Tribune

Movie review: Cate Blanchett's blistering performance drives powerful 'Tár'

If you drew the story arc of "Tár," it would be a long horizontal line that ends with an angled, nearly vertical one. In other words, nothing happens for quite a while and then a whole lot happens at once.

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Neal Justin: Seth Meyers and his famous friends find time to keep making 'Documentary Now!'

"Documentary Now!," the series that specializes in highbrow parodies, returns with another impressive list of celebrity guests, including Cate Blanchett, Alexander Skarsgard, Jonathan Pryce and singer Tom Jones.

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Upcoming sci-fi movies for 2026: Project Hail Mary, The Mandalorian and Grogu, Supergirl, & more

It’s a busy time in sci-fi cinema. Here are the upcoming sci-fi and space movies to look forward to in 2026.

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‘TÁR’: Cate Blanchett fascinates as a brilliant but toxic conductor

Star seems to be an Oscar front-runner for her performance as a genius who makes beautiful music but leads an ugly life.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: In ‘Tár,’ Cate Blanchett wields a mean baton in one of the best movies of the year

An icy-hot paradox of a film, and one of the year’s peak achievements, writer-director Todd Field’s “Tár” casts a gimlet eye on a fictional American orchestra conductor and composer, Lydia Tár, at the summit of her global fame. The view is glorious. It’s also more treacherous than she realizes.

Chicago Tribune

Movie review: Todd Field conducts Cate Blanchett in towering character study 'Tár'

Until recently, Todd Field, whose feature directorial debut is the acclaimed 2001 drama "In the Bedroom," hadn't made a film since its 2006 follow-up, the well-regarded "Little Children."

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Why classical conductor 'Tár' was the most terrifying role of Cate Blanchett's iconic career

Cate Blanchett has played her share of formidable characters, rulers who could bring mere mortals to their knees with a single icy stare: Queen Elizabeth I in "Elizabeth," Galadriel in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the goddess Hela in "Thor: Ragnarok."

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Amsterdam’ and ‘Lyle Lyle’ Struggle, Letting ‘Smile’ Repeat

David O. Russell's star-studded 1930s mystery “Amsterdam" flopped and the children's book adaptation “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” debuted softly, allowing the horror thriller “Smile” to repeat atop the box office in US and Canada theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday. Neither new release caught fire with moviegoers but the disappointment was…

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'Amsterdam' and 'Lyle Lyle' struggle, letting 'Smile' repeat

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Blanchett and Field grapple with power, process in 'Tár'

Cate Blanchett isn't just playing a classical music conductor in the new film “Tár," she is actually conducting a live orchestra of professional musicians

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Review: Cate Blanchett is at the peak of her powers in 'Tár,' a magnificent cinematic symphony

It's not until an hour into "Tár" that we see the title character — a classical conductor known the world over as Lydia Tár and played by an unimprovable Cate Blanchett — do what she was born to do. It's an astonishing performance nestled inside another: In one shot, Lydia…

Evening Standard

And the Oscars go to... why Steven Spielberg and Cate Blanchett are among the frontrunners for awards in 2023

As awards season starts, our expert reveals what the recent film festivals in Venice, Telluride and Toronto tell us about the front runners for next year’s big film prizes in Los Angeles

The Guardian - US

From The Whale to The Fabelmans: where does this year’s Oscar race stand?

With fall festivals coming to a close and with most of the big films having premiered, this year’s potential winners and losers are starting to take shape

Los Angeles Times

'The Fabelmans' looks like this year's Oscar front-runner, but here's why that's complicated

Steven Spielberg was onstage at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre, talking about the End or, more precisely, how his new movie memory piece, "The Fabelmans," isn't quite the End or a signal that he's retiring, but simply an acknowledgment that the clock is ticking.

Los Angeles Times

Pedro Almodovar steps away from his first English-language feature film

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar is going to wait a while longer before tackling a feature film in English.

The Independent UK

Almodóvar pulls out of first English-language feature film

Oscar-winning filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar is withdrawing from his first English-language feature, "A Manual for Cleaning Women” produced by and starring Cate Blanchett

Asharq Al-Awsat

Poitras Documentary Wins Top Prize at Venice Film Festival

“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” Laura Poitras’s epic documentary about photographer Nan Goldin and her activism against the Sackler family and their art connections has been awarded the Golden Lion for best film at the 79th Venice International Film Festival. Poitras, the American filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning Edward Snowden…

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