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Finest Hour

Finest Hour: Patrick Dewaere in Série noire

By Chris Shields
January 18, 2022
Crime and punishment: the French actor is at once grotesque and rivetingly human in Alain Corneau's 1979 thriller

Mother Tongue

By Mayukh Sen
May 8, 2020
In English Vinglish, Sridevi brought a career’s worth of razor-sharp instinct to one of her final roles, as a resurgent housewife

False Idols

By Christina Newland
June 7, 2019
David Essex’s sly, self-aware performance in That’ll Be The Day goes well beyond the usual dictates of a star vehicle

Finest Hour: Phantom of Liberty

By Madeline Whittle
November 26, 2018
In Moderato Cantabile, Jeanne Moreau shatters the mold of the discontent bourgeoise femme

Finest Hour: Army of One

By Imogen Sara Smith
January 3, 2017
Tatsuya Nakadai embraces the fury and mystique of the samurai in The Sword of Doom