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‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ needed another wish | Cannes movie review

DramaKarl DelossantosMay 25, 2022
Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba in George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing. Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival.

Tilda Swinton plays an academic who frees a Djinn (Idris Elba) from centuries-long imprisonment and is granted three wishes in Three Thousand Years of Longing.

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‘Beast’ roars for your attention | movie review

ActionKarl DelossantosAugust 18, 2022
Idris Elba as Nathan in Beast, directed by Baltasar Kormákur.
In Beast, a doctor and his two young daughters find themselves at the wrong end of a lion's taste for vengeance as they become trapped in the South African bush Over the running time of Beast, wildlife biologist and animal sanctuary protector Martin (Sharlto Copley) remarks a few times that what is happening isn't normal.…
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'Cats' out of the bag, let's put them back in — movie review

Movie ReviewsKarl DelossantosDecember 18, 20192
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A tribe of cats gathers to decide who among them deserves to ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life in this adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Quick review: At best, Cats is an interesting exercise in the boundaries of filmmaking. At the worst, which it treads closer to, it's…
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