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Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic It all starts with a slap. After getting into a fight at school, Marielle (Laeni Geiseler) spontaneously develops the capacity to eavesdrop on her parents’ lives.

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‘Wake Up’ Review: An Eco-Protest in an Ikea-Style Showroom Gives New Meaning to ‘Direct Action’

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In “Wake Up,” six young activists are determined to make a point. Instead, they wind up on the receiving end of one: stabbed, speared or otherwise impaled by the psychotic security guard at the Ikea-esque House Idea store they’ve targeted for an ecoterrorism stunt.

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David Mamet Releasing Shia LaBeouf Prison Drama ‘Henry Johnson’ This Spring (EXCLUSIVE)

Brent Lang Executive Editor David Mamet will release “Henry Johnson,” a prison drama that marks his first film in over a decade, this spring. Production wrapped recently on the film, which stars Shia LaBeouf and is an adaptation of Mamet’s 2023 play of the same name.

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‘Screamboat’ Review: Mickey Mouse Attacks a Handful of ‘Terrifier’ Veterans in a Twisted Disney Ferry Tale

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic There are two completely different kinds of brutality afoot in movies like “Screamboat,” the latest in the low-budget horror movie craze to pervert beloved intellectual property the instant their 95-year copyright protection lapses into the public domain. First, there’s whatever sadistic fates the filmmakers have in mind for the characters, from being impaled by a forklift to having their faces plunged into the propeller of the Staten Island Ferry.

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‘Hell of a Summer’ Review: ‘Stranger Things’ Star Finn Wolfhard’s Co-Directing Debut Is a Cut Above

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In two decades at Variety, I have reviewed precious few slasher movies. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t take much pleasure in what Roger Ebert called “dead teenager movies” — and yet, for some reason, this week I am writing about three (and no, that’s not an April Fool’s joke).

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‘Art for Everybody’ Review: An Illuminating Look at an American Painter Far Darker Than His ‘Art’ Let On

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic He makes art critics cringe, but Thomas Kinkade — whose idyllic paintings of storybook cottages and pastoral landscapes glow as if lit from within (some of them literally are, with tiny LEDs embedded in the canvas) — has arguably given more pleasure to the masses than any artist since Norman Rockwell. In theory, one could argue that Walt Disney, Charles Schulz or Margaret “Big Eyes” Keane is more deserving of such an extravagant claim, and yet, of those iconic individuals, only Kinkade’s work was recently estimated to be hanging in as many as one in 20 American homes.

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‘A Working Man’ Review: Jason Statham’s Blue Collar Barely Hides Character’s Commando Roots in Routine Vigilante Bruiser

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Jason Statham is good at his job, which explains why he keeps booking the same kinds of movies — well, that and the fact that people keep watching them. Reuniting the British action star with “The Beekeeper” writer-director David Ayer, “A Working Man” makes the least effort yet to provide backstory or motive before sending Statham’s latest character, Levon Cade, on a spectacularly violent rampage.

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Classic Film Champ Thierry Frémaux Celebrates the 130th Anniversary of Cinema With Feature-Length Lumière Film

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic All eyes are on Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux as he decides which films make the cut for the upcoming festival. Meanwhile, in his other job as head of the Institut Lumière, he directs film lovers’ gaze to the origins of the medium. The Lyon-based museum is built on the site where, on March 19, 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière debuted the invention they later christened the Cinematograph, recording a crowd of workers leaving the family’s photographic supply factory.

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‘Materialists’ Trailer: Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal Are an Epic Love Triangle in ‘Past Lives’ Director’s Follow-Up

Michaela Zee A24 has released the official trailer for Celine Song‘s “Materialists.” Written, directed and produced by Song, the romantic comedy follows an ambitious New York City matchmaker who finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal star in Song’s follow-up to her Oscar-nominated feature directorial debut “Past Lives.” Principal photography for “Materialists” began in April 2024 in New York City and wrapped in June of the same year.

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‘Summer of 69’ Review: Jillian Bell’s Far-Fetched Feature Debut Pairs a Stripper With a High School Student

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In the summer of 1969, a sensitive, X-rated studio movie called “Midnight Cowboy” proved a box office surprise, upending norms when it won best picture at the Oscars. Flash forward to this year, and the screwball Stripperella comedy “Anora” unexpectedly repeated that coup, demonstrating once again that the industry is capable of looking beyond stereotypes where sex workers are concerned.

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‘On Swift Horses’ Review: Daisy Edgar-Jones Wagers There’s More to Marriage in ’50s-Set Drama

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic When “On Swift Horses” played as a secret screening at the Palm Springs Film Festival in January, at least half a dozen people walked out, not because it’s bad, but because a certain contingent of the normally open-minded art-house audience hadn’t signed up for a gay love story. For that reason, it feels like the opposite of a spoiler — something between a consumer service and a selling point — to address what the festival capsules only coyly imply, using phrases like “self-discovery” (Toronto) and “exploring a love she never dreamed possible” (SXSW).

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White Privilege Satire ‘Slanted’ and Addiction Industry Exposé ‘Shuffle’ Take Top Awards at SXSW

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Shifting the attention from starry premieres at Austin’s Paramount Theatre to the independent film and TV projects that make up the majority of its lineup, the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival has announced the jury awards for its 2025 edition. Amy Wang’s “Slanted” won the narrative feature competition, rewarding the tonal and thematic audacity of a high school comedy with boundary-pushing “The Substance” vibes.

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‘September 5’ to Open India’s Red Lorry Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE)

Naman Ramachandran BookMyShow India’s Red Lorry Film Festival has landed a prestigious opening night selection with “September 5,” the Oscar-nominated drama that recreates ABC’s live coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist attack. The announcement comes as the festival, now in its second year, expands to include screenings in both Mumbai and Hyderabad from March 21-23.

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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Sets Disney+ Streaming Date

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com If you missed “Mufasa: The Lion King” in theaters over the holidays, it will be streaming exclusively on Disney+ starting March 26. The Disney tentpole grossed $709 million at the worldwide box office.

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‘Holland’ Review: A Kitschy Dutch-Themed Midwestern Town Plays Backdrop to a Twisty Mystery

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Holland, Mi., is one of those high-concept American towns where nothing feels real. Modeled after someone’s fantasy of an 18th-century Dutch village, it has windmills and tulip fields and ersatz canal houses.

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‘We Are Storror’ Review: In Michael Bay’s Hands, the Parkour Team Comes Off Looking Like Real-World Action Heroes

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic For 15 years, the best thing the ballsy U.K.-based parkour team known as Storror could say for a successful stunt — whether jumping off a cliff together or leaping between tall buildings for videos they uploaded to YouTube — was that none of them had died in the process. But now, with a wealth of law-breaking footage to their name, the seven-member posse has not only their lives to show for it, but also a feature-length Michael Bay movie to commemorate their exploits.

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‘Death of a Unicorn’ Review: Paul Rudd Kills the Wrong Magical Creature in A24’s Biting Horror Satire

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Is there anything sadder than seeing a unicorn die? These majestic (imaginary) beasts represent the original endangered species — something innocent and pure that may once have existed, but certainly doesn’t today, from which we can conclude that they must have been snuffed out by mankind’s cruelty. Repeated across the centuries in art and lore, this painful sacrifice inevitably reveals something essential about human nature.

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‘A Normal Family’ Trailer: Two Brothers Come to Blows in Hur Jin-ho’s New Feature (EXCLUSIVE)

J. Kim Murphy After its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023 and playing other fests through the past year, Hur Jin-ho‘s “A Normal Family” will touch down in North America in April, as Room 8 Films prepares for launch with a first trailer. Starring Sul Kyung-gu, Jang Dong-gun, Kim Hee-ae and Claudia Kim, the provocative Korean drama follows a wealthy lawyer, who decides to defend a killer, being confronted by his righteous brother over a heated dinner conversation.

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‘2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary’ Review: Take Your Pick Between Endemic Violence and Escapist Music

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Running five minutes longer than “Wicked” — and still nearly an hour below “The Brutalist” — the “2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary” package makes for a heavy evening at the movies. Bodycam evidence of police brutality, raw survivor reactions to school shootings, a deep dive into the death penalty and so on.

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‘2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation’ Review: Diverse Mix Reflects the Medium’s Incredible Range

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Two decades ago, in 2006, the team at Shorts International transformed one of the key Oscar races, securing the rights to release all five finalists in the Academy Awards’ animated short category on the big screen and pretty much all devices, from laptops to cell phones. Ergo, the “2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation” package now in theaters represents the company’s 20th edition.

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‘2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action’ Review: Optimism and Outrage Battle It Out in Solid Shorts Crop

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Over the past two decades, the Academy Awards have been in a constant state of flux: There are now 10 best picture nominees instead of five, the membership has grown (and diversified) by more than 50% in that time, streaming releases now routinely vie for the top prize. Amid all that change, one constant remains: For 20 years, ShortsTV has been working with the short film nominees to get their work seen around the country.

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Gene Hackman Remembered: How the ’70s Acting Legend Left His Mark and Shaped ‘The Conversation’

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic On the Mount Rushmore of great American actors — specifically those who emerged in the late 1960s and brought a transformative, bone-deep intensity to their craft over the industry-redefining decade that followed — four faces loom large: Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman. The eldest of that contingent, Hackman is less familiar to young audiences than the others, having withdrawn from acting more than 20 years ago, in order to write and paint in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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