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Anthony Lane reviews Pablo Larraín's movie "Spencer," a fantastical bio-pic about Princess Diana, starring Kristen Stewart, and Blerta Basholli's "Hive," a Kosovan film about a woman ...

The intimacy and care the character craves is something the audience feels compelled to supply. Our sympathy is more than pity, and "Spencer" is more than the portrait of a woman in distress ...

Stewart would put on a chiffon gown or a suit; Larraín would pick a hallway or a ballroom for her to move in, and play music through a large speaker: LCD Soundsystem, or Bach, or Sinéad O ...

Spencer. Pablo Larraín 's "Spencer" is a haunting reimagining of a tense Christmas holiday in the life of Princess Diana. Knowing this will not fully prepare you for what you're about to watch. Larraín's vision is full of dream sequences, internal and externalized pain, metaphor-heavy dialogue, and Kristen Stewart brooding ...

"Spencer," Pablo Larraín's magnificent movie about Princess Diana and how she freed herself from the life she chose, the life that made her a star, and the life that was killing her, opens ...

Venue: Venice Film Festival (Competition) Release date: Friday, Nov. 5. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Sally Hawkins, Timothy Spall, Sean Harris, Jack Farthing. Director: Pablo Larraín. Screenwriter ...

Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times. Kristen Stewart has sometimes been accused of just playing variations on herself, as if that isn't half the reason we're drawn to movie stars. In ...

Kristen Stewart is on fire in Pablo Larraín's elegant, gothic fable based on the People's Princess. Making an arthouse film based on an icon as deeply and emotionally enshrined in the public ...

Twilight star Kristen Stewart continues her run of chilling, sophisticated films with Spencer, from Jackie director Pablo Larrain. The story, an impressionistic mood piece rather than a strict ...

12A cert, 111 min. Dir: Pablo Larraín. Once upon a time - Christmas 1991, to be exact - a beautiful princess in a gilded prison realised the time had come to make her escape. Or at least ...

What starts as an emotional horror show ends as the best jailbreak movie since "Shawshank." There's nothing here of the car crash that tragically ended Diana's life at 36 in1996. Instead, "Spencer" shows Diana in the revitalizing act of escape from her privileged prison.

Spencer: Directed by Pablo Larraín. With Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins, Jack Nielen. Diana Spencer, struggling with mental-health problems during her Christmas holidays with the Royal Family at their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.

Spencer can frustrate with its idiosyncratic depiction of its subject's life, but Kristen Stewart's finely modulated performance anchors the film's flights of fancy. Read Critics Reviews. Kristen ...

Doreen St. Félix reviews "Ma," the new thriller by the writer and director Tate Taylor and the actress Octavia Spencer, starring Spencer, Juliette Lewis, Allison Janney, Diana Silvers, and ...

Spencer won't please staunch royalists, but Larraín and Stewart have succeeded in presenting a fresh and perhaps enlightening impression of one of the 20th century's most dissected figures ...

Stewart is the star of "Spencer," a dream-like movie that had its North American premiere Wednesday night at the Toronto International Film Festival. The evening was easily the most electric ...

Dir: Pablo Larraín; Starring: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Farthing, Sean Harris, Sally Hawkins. Don't expect real-life royal soap opera in Spencer, the new film about Princess Diana ...

Ten years after her wedding, her marriage is in crisis, her mental health in question and the Establishment is trying to control her. But, still drawn to her nearby family home now left in ruins ...

Writing for The New York Times, Kyle Buchanan cites Stewart as a "grounding presence" for the film's borderline camp interpretation of Diana's life. "The more the movie goes on, the more her ...

Kristen Stewart in Spencer (2021 Courtesy of Pablo Larraín / NEON). The success of the film is in great part owed to Kristen Stewart, who fully inhabits Larraín's Diana in a career-defining role that once again confirms her as one of the great actors of our time.Stewart's Diana convinces us from the very first shot, appearing to us as a woman who is burdened by the weight of many ...

WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) Kristen Stewart takes on the iconic role of Diana, Princess of Wales in Pablo Larrain's dreamy, abstract, yet emotionally involving fictional film of a three-day ...

Josh O'Connor, center, in "La Chimera," the latest from Alice Rohrwacher. Neon. The story: In Alice Rohrwacher's 1980s-set tale, Josh O'Connor is Arthur, a tomb raider in rural Italy who ...

Hong Sangsoo's "Walk Up" Signals a Break from Routine. The prolific director's latest movie relies and reflects on his famously low-budget filmmaking system. By Richard Brody. March 23 ...

USA TODAY. 0:03. 2:06. The reports on New York Yankees prospect Spencer Jones have been glowing. His skillset has been called "an intriguing combination of power and uncommon athleticism," by ...

Dodgers @ Reds. May 24, 2024 | 00:00:41. Reels. Spencer Steer hits a three-run homer after the call on the field is confirmed following an umpire review in the 1st inning. More From This Game. Cincinnati Reds. Spencer Steer.

Today, we take a look at Spencer Dinwiddie. After the L.A. native Spencer Dinwiddie decided on a homecoming following a buyout by the Raptors, Laker fans embraced his grit and passion for the ...

An A.I. movie that sticks to the script. Jennifer Lopez stars in "Atlas," directed by Brad Peyton. Ana Carballosa/Netflix. 'Atlas'. In this sci-fi thriller, Jennifer Lopez plays Atlas, a ...

With "Megalopolis," he crams 85 years worth of artistic reverence and romantic love into a clunky, garish, and transcendently sincere manifesto about the role of an artist at the end of an ...

Spencer is a town in Tioga County, New York, United States.The population was 2,976 at the 2020 census. The town and its primary village are named after Ambrose Spencer.It lies on the western border of the county and is south of Ithaca.Inside the town is the Village of Spencer.The village of Candor borders the town to the east and southeast, with Waverly to the southwest and Van Etten to the ...

Richard Brody reviews "The Souvenir: Part II," directed by Joanna Hogg and starring Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Swinton, and James Spencer Ashworth.