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		<title>‘Hope’ Unleashes a Bats&#8212; Crazy Korean Monster Movie on Cannes and Earns 6-Minute Standing Ovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 22:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hope&#8221; &#8212; an extremely ambitious blockbuster hopeful about an alien invasion in a sleepy South Korean mountain town &#8212; jolted the Cannes Film Festival awake on Sunday night with a 6-minute ovation. Directed by Na Hong-jin, the big-budget epic combined a gritty survival story and an original sci-fi mythology &#8212; no one quite knew what [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Hope&#8217; Review: Na Hong-jin&#8217;s Overlong Creature Feature is a Guns-Blazing Riot of Bawdy Humor, Bad CGI and Brilliant Action</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Kiang]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 22:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For a whole decade since 2016&#8217;s extraordinarily uncanny horror-hybrid &#8220;The Wailing,&#8221; fans of Korean director Na Hong-jin have been peering anxiously at the horizon awaiting his next uncategorizable genre mash-up. More recently, like a bumbling local police chief removing his mirrored aviators to squint at an unidentifiable what-the-hell-is-that wreaking havoc in the distance, we&#8217;ve tracked [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>ACM Awards Producers on What to Expect Sunday Night: Shania&#8217;s First Country Hosting Gig, Show&#8217;s Return to Vegas, 17 Performances in 2½ Hours and Meeting the Ella Langley Moment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Willman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 20:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ella Langley has conquered not just the country world but the music world generally this year with her song &#8220;Choosin&#8217; Texas.&#8221; But for the producers of the Academy of Country Music Awards, this year&#8217;s show is all about choosin&#8217; Vegas. Certainly no fight is being picked with the Lone Star state, where the ACM Awards [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘A Girl’s Story’ Review: Judith Godrèche’s Assured Feature Debut Tells a Bitter Tale of Sexual Initiation in 1950s France</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guy Lodge]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 19:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The resemblance between Judith Godrèche and her daughter Tess Barthélemy — also the luminous lead of her mother&#8217;s debut feature &#8220;A Girl’s Life&#8221; — will be particularly powerful for anyone familiar with Godrèche’s teenage breakthrough role in the 1990 Jacques Doillon drama &#8220;The Disenchanted.&#8221; Watching the doe-eyed Barthélémy in this assured adaptation of Annie Ernaux&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Annette Bening on Going Head-to-Head With Beth and Rip on &#8216;Dutton Ranch,&#8217; Perfecting That Accent and Wardrobe, and Bringing &#8216;Vulnerability and Desperation&#8217; to Beulah</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Earl]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 19:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Dutton Ranch&#8221; is a high-profile &#8220;Yellowstone&#8221; spinoff, but Annette Bening, a new addition to Taylor Sheridan&#8217;s universe, has been stealing every scene she&#8217;s been in. Bening plays Beulah Jackson, a larger-than-life Texas businesswoman who owns and operates 10 Petal Ranch along with her family. But this matriarch isn&#8217;t afraid to make some tough decisions, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Another Day’ Review: Adèle Exarchopoulos Gives an Understated and Deeply Lived-In Performance in Jeanne Herry’s Graceful Alcoholism Drama</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/another-day-review-1236751639/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tomilaffly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 18:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Billy Wilder’s “The Lost Weekend” to the Sandra Bullock-starrer “28 Days” and beyond, cinema has a long tradition of substance abuse and recovery stories. There is something inherently cinematic and moving about a struggling person’s by-the-bootstraps journey to healing, with a lifetime&#8217;s worth of trials and tribulations. Just two years ago, Nora Fingscheidt’s tough [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>ACMs 2026 Livestream: How to Watch the Country Music Awards Show Online for Free</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Chan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 18:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shania Twain hosts and Lainey Wilson, Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves and Little Big Town are among the performers for tonight&#8217;s Academy of Country Music Awards ceremony, taking place live from Las Vegas. As with previous years, the 2026 ACMs air live on Prime Video, Amazon&#8217;s subscriber-based streaming service. Viewers can sign into their Amazon Prime [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Barbra Streisand Unable to Attend Cannes Closing Ceremony to Accept Honorary Palme d&#8217;Or After Knee Injury</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellise Shafer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 17:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Barbra Streisand is unable to attend the Cannes Film Festival closing ceremony to accept her honorary Palme d&#8217;Or after suffering a knee injury. &#8220;On the advice of my doctors, as I continue recovering from a knee injury, I am sadly unable to attend the Festival de Cannes this year,&#8221; Streisand said in a statement on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ryan Gosling Was Fired From &#8216;Lovely Bones&#8217; After Gaining 60 Pounds. Peter Jackson Now Speaks Out: &#8216;Anytime We Recast an Actor, It&#8217;s Actually Our Fault&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zack Sharf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 17:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Peter Jackson is finally weighing in on Ryan Gosling&#8217;s infamous recasting in &#8220;The Lonely Bones,&#8221; the director&#8217;s 2009 adaptation of Alice Sebold&#8217;s novel. Gosling was originally cast as the father of Saoirse Ronan&#8217;s lead character, but revealed to THR in 2010 that he was fired from the movie after he gained 60 pounds for the role without [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Oscars&#8217; New Inclusion Rules Wouldn&#8217;t Disqualify Any Best Picture Nominee in History. So Why Is Elon Musk Melting Down Over &#8216;The Odyssey&#8217;?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clayton Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Andy Samberg answered this one for us back in 2020. Here’s the short version (because we&#8217;ve gone over this). Every best picture winner in the Academy&#8217;s 98-year history — from the silent-era film “Wings” in 1929 through the most recent political action epic “One Battle After Another” this past March — clears the Academy’s Representation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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