As the year comes to a close and the major awards contenders have screened, we look at some of the films competing for a slot in the best picture race.
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Mark Keizer “Holy Beasts” doesn’t work on every level, but it hits the bullseye where it matters most: as a cinematic reclamation project in honor of the late Dominican director Jean-Louis Jorge.
Murdered in 2000 at age 53, Jorge only completed three feature films, but his predilection for kitsch and blurring the line between dreams and reality could have eventually made him the homegrown answer to Pedro Almodóvar and Alejandro Jodorowsky.In “Holy Beasts,” a commanding Geraldine Chaplin plays
.As the year comes to a close and the major awards contenders have screened, we look at some of the films competing for a slot in the best picture race.
Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorAs the year comes to a close and the major awards contenders have screened, we look at some of the films competing for a slot in the best picture race.Being the Ricardos (Amazon Studios) Many couldn’t picture Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, but “Being the Ricardos” proves them all wrong.
Two women meet in a maternity ward and their lives become inextricably linked in Pedro Almodóvar’s gentle but penetrating “ Parallel Mothers.”It’s a film that on one level plays like a melodrama, with wild twists and turns fitting of soap opera cliffhangers. But there is something deeper going on too, underneath the beautiful surface and base pleasures of plot and simply watching Penélope Cruz through Almodóvar’s loving lens.
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