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Tár – an exploration of the flawed musicians behind decadent music

Tár (2022) follows superstar conductor Lydia Tár, played by Cate Blanchett, as she conducts the Berlin Philharmonic (represented in the film by the Dresden Philharmonic) in a much-anticipated performance of Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.

The Conversation

Tár movie review: the bleakest and funniest film about systemic sleaze since Promising Young Woman

The team behind this nuanced film deserve to win big at all the glitzy awards this season

Evening Standard

Under a cloud, the Golden Globes went dark. How the awards came back from the brink

LOS ANGELES — Twenty months after NBC announced that it was pulling the Golden Globe Awards off the air amid controversy, the show long billed as “Hollywood’s Party of the Year” is set to return to the airwaves Tuesday night.

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What links Cate Blanchett’s new film Tár to Sissy Spacek and hot sauce?

A composer and conductor opens the door to Loretta Lynn, Wings of Desire and classic 90s rock from Goo Goo Dolls

The Guardian - UK

Tár’s breakout star Sophie Kauer: ‘I learned to act from Cate Blanchett’

The rising cello star on making her acclaimed acting debut opposite the Hollywood A-lister, studying Michael Caine and returning to music after a whirlwind year

Evening Standard

Critics Choice Awards nominees include Margot Robbie in Babylon and Cate Blanchett's role in Tár

The yet-to-be-released Babylon gives Margot Robbie another best actress nomination, this time for the Critics Choice Awards.

ABC News

Did the LA Film Critics go overboard with their ‘Tár’ love? Inside this year’s vote

LOS ANGELES — “Tár,” Todd Field’s drama about a world-renowned, scandal-plagued classical music conductor, dominated the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s awards voting on Sunday, winning prizes for Field’s script and direction, and for Cate Blanchett’s lead performance. But the movie ultimately shared the best picture prize with Daniel Kwan…

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‘Tár,’ ‘Everything Everywhere’ Tie for LA Critics’ Top Award

Todd Field’s symphonic backstage drama “Tár” and the existential comedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once” tied for top honors with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association in awards announced Sunday. The critics group opted to split its best film award between the two acclaimed films. “Tár,” which was also chosen…

Asharq Al-Awsat

The 22 best (and 5 worst) movies of 2022, a 'Maverick' kind of year

After two years Hollywood would rather forget, 2022 offered some hope.

Tribune News Service

'Tár,' 'Everything Everywhere' tie for LA critics' top award

The Independent UK

Why are the end credits at the beginning of 'Tár?' Todd Field explains

"I hate explaining this stuff."

Los Angeles Times

‘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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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

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Chicago Tribune

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

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.

Tribune News Service

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."

Los Angeles Times

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."

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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…

The Independent UK

'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

Los Angeles Times

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…

Los Angeles Times

The winners and losers of a muted Telluride Film Festival

TELLURIDE, Colo. — The Telluride Film Festival has long cherished its image as an oasis for movie lovers, tucked away in a remote Colorado box canyon, free from the cares of the world.

Los Angeles Times

Cate Blanchett delivers a Telluride 'Tar' de force, but Olivia Colman can't save 'Empire of Light'

TELLURIDE, Colo. — When Cate Blanchett took the stage Saturday evening for her Telluride Film Festival tribute, right after a screening of her astonishing new movie, "Tar," the audience must have enjoyed a bit of a chuckle. Most audiences that get a post-screening Q&A with Blanchett — and there will…

Chicago Tribune

Report from 2022 Venice Film Festival: Cate Blanchett excels in 'Tar,' while ‘White Noise’ and ‘Bardo’ struggle as much as their characters

VENICE, Italy — When we meet the imperious, exacting maestro played with thrilling command by Cate Blanchett in Todd Field’s film “Tar,” Lydia Tar has climbed every mountain to conquer her own personal summit of fame.

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