Steve Pond
Steve Pond
Steve Pond’s inside look at the artistry and insanity of the awards race, drawn from more than three decades of obsessively chronicling the Oscars and the entertainment industry.
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‘Anora’ Review: Sean Baker Whips Up a Wild Stripper Romance Thriller Comedy, or Something Like That
Cannes 2024: The film swings wildly back and forth while also hanging onto its heart, and it’s just too much fun to worry about how much Baker is cramming in
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‘The Shrouds’ Review: David Cronenberg’s Exploration of Grief Is as Sad as It Is Creepy
Cannes 2024: Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger star in a movie inspired by the 2017 death of the director’s wife
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‘The Apprentice’ Review: Donald Trump Movie Starring Sebastian Stan Plays Like a Tragic Frankenstein Tale
Cannes 2024: With Stan as a young Trump and Jeremy Strong as lawyer Roy Cohn, the film is amusing at times and disturbing at others
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Cannes So Far: Filmmakers Go Mega in a Muted Festival
Cannes 2024: At a festival still recovering from a pandemic and strikes, the directors have taken big swings
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‘Horizon: An American Saga’ Review: Kevin Costner Unveils a Sprawling, Old-Fashioned Western
Cannes 2024: The first of a projected four movies is a corny, rousing epic for people who say they don’t make ’em like that anymore
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‘Jim Henson Idea Man’ Review: Ron Howard Takes a Loving, Honest Look at Muppets Creator
Cannes 2024: Skillful, honest and sympathetic, this is the kind of film you’d want about Jim Henson
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‘Caught by the Tides’ Review: Jia Zhangke Stands Up for China but Watches Things Fall Apart
Cannes 2024: The film is an elegy of sorts, at times angry and abrasive but more often gentle and reflective
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Francis Ford Coppola Hasn’t Seen Those ‘Megalopolis’ Reviews Yet
Cannes 2024: “I’m told it went over very well,” says the legendary director of his wild and divisive epic
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‘Kinds of Kindness’ Review: Yorgos Lanthimos Brings Back Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe for a Surreal Creep-Fest
Cannes 2024: “The Favourite” and “Poor Things” were fun, but this trio of dark and disturbing stories is old-style Lanthimos
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‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ Review: African Story Slips Between Fable and Hard Reality
Cannes 2024: Rungano Nyoni’s follow-up to “I Am Not a Witch” is timely, but it also exists completely out of time
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‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Review: Anya Taylor-Joy Takes Over in a Brutal Return to Fury Road
Cannes 2024: The fifth “Mad Max” installment contains as many vehicular stunts as a “Fast & Furious” flick but still felt at home in the Grand Theatre Lumiere at Cannes
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‘Wild Diamond’ Review: Cannes Character Study Is Empathetic and Unforgiving
Cannes 2024: First-time director Agathe Riedinger presents social media and reality TV stardom as a pie-in-the-sky way to escape a life of poverty
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A Serious Cannes Film Festival Opens With a Goofy Comedy, ‘The Second Act’
Cannes 2024: Quentin Dupieux’s film about the making of the first AI movie is an amusing trifle, and very meta
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‘Top Boy,’ ‘Such Brave Girls’ Win at BAFTA Television Awards
Acting winners include “Succession” star Matthew Macfadyen and “Happy Valley” lead Sarah Lancashire
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Academy Launches $500 Million Campaign to Celebrate 100th Oscars
The Academy100 campaign is aimed at deepening the organization’s international impact
