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Pain and Glory

Academy Award winning filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar has a divisive range of films that include an Oscar-nominated performance from Penelope Cruz in “Volver”, to airplane orgies in “I’m So Excited“. His latest “Pain and Glory” premiered at Cannes earlier this year to rave reviews and awards buzz, especially for frequent collaborator Antonio Banderas. Almodóvar turns the

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Everybody Knows

Two-time Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi (“The Salesman, “A Separation”) returns with big stars in his first Spanish-language film “Everybody Knows.” It received a lukewarm reception at Cannes and I can see why. The suspense thriller starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem feels less socially important than Farhadi’s previous work. That said, “Everybody Knows” is his

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