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Jon Frosch assigns and edits film and TV reviews, essays and all other critical content for THR’s print edition and website. He also writes film reviews. Frosch's writing for THR has won two Southern California Journalism Awards for critic of the year and earned several National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award nominations. He was formerly Film Editor and Critic at France 24 in Paris, where he started as a General Assignment Reporter. Prior to that, he was an Online Editor and Contributing Writer at the International Herald Tribune in Paris. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Village Voice and The Stranger. Based in Los Angeles, Frosch is a member of The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) and has served on several Gotham Award nominating committees.
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A Trans Drug Kingpin, Masturbating Zombies and Emma Stone: THR’s Critics Pick the 20 Best Films of Cannes 2024
A Danish drama about an unwanted pregnancy, a portrait of two nurses chasing romance in Mumbai and a Corsican mafia thriller are among other standouts from the world's pre-eminent film festival.
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‘Ghost Trail’ Review: A Tense, Terrifically Acted Thriller About Syrian Exiles in France
Premiering in Cannes' Critics' Week sidebar, Jonathan Millet's film stars Adam Bessa as a Syrian refugee tasked with tracking down his former torturer.
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‘Ghostlight’ Review: A Disarming Dramedy About Grief, Theater and Finding Your People
The latest from 'Saint Frances' filmmakers Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson revolves around a construction worker who finds comfort in a local production of 'Romeo and Juliet.'
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2023
A romantic collision of past and present, a subversive feminist fairy tale, a metaphysical ghost story, an epic retelling of a horrific footnote in American history and a sublime anti-rom-com are among this year’s highlights.
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Critics’ Conversation: The Great Film Performances of 2023
THR film reviewers delight in an assortment of deliciously unlikable lead turns, single out stars delivering career bests (a wild Emma Stone, a wily Natalie Portman) and celebrate new and rising talents from various corners of the globe.
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of the Fall Fests
Career highs for Emma Stone and Nicolas Cage, a delicious Frederick Wiseman doc, a poignant gay ghost story and two knockout dramas about the refugee crisis in Europe are among THR critics’ 15 faves from Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘His Three Daughters’ Review: Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne Excel in Azazel Jacobs’ Vividly Affecting Chamber Dramedy
The stars play sisters reunited in the New York City apartment of their childhood to care for their father during his last days of home hospice care.
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 10 Best Films of 2023 So Far
THR’s reviewers choose faves from the first half of the year, including a Michelle Williams-Kelly Reichardt collab, Miles Morales’ latest adventure and an aching love-triangle drama.
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 20 Best Films of Cannes 2023
Favorites included Scorsese’s wrenching true-crime epic, two riveting French courtroom dramas, a chilling Holocaust film like no other, a handcrafted Moroccan documentary, and the latest from veteran auteurs Aki Kaurismaki, Wim Wenders and Victor Erice.
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‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Review: Sandra Hüller Is Brilliant as a Writer Accused of Murder in Justine Triet’s Rivetingly Complex Drama
The 'Toni Erdmann' star plays an author on trial for killing her husband in this Cannes competition entry from French filmmaker Justine Triet ('Sibyl').
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 50 Best Films of the 21st Century (So Far)
Over the course of a few months, several Zoom meetings, and countless emails, six THR film critics came together to hash out, and rank, what they consider the greatest films since 2000.
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Breaking Down the List: Facts and Figures About THR Critics’ 50 Best Films of the 21st Century (So Far)
From the number of best picture winners to make the cut to the films it broke our hearts not to include, here are some stats and specifics about the list.
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