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IMDb Editor Arno Kazarian offers up quick takes on 12 movies he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous, curiously erotic Misericordia
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In Mexico, a lawyer receives an unexpected offer to help a feared cartel boss retire from his business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he's always dreamed of being..
Jacques Audiard's first Spanish-language film
A French title card misspells the Indian city as "Dehli"..
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(2024).
El TrioWritten by Camille, Clément Ducol and Jacques AudiardPerformed by Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana
The script is shamefully shallow and implausible, the performances are weak (perhaps with the exception of Zoe Saldana, but still overacting).A hammy Karla Sofia Gaston, the so-called protagonist who gives the film its title, fails to convince either as a woman, as a singer, or much less as an actress (at times reminiscent of those over-the-top performances from low-quality Mexican soap operas).And when you leave a musical without any song stuck in your head, not even humming, it's a sign that the work has failed in that regard as well.
I really don't understand all the fuss over this highly overrated piece
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