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Review: ‘Thirteen Lives’ Gets Lost in Sprawling Rescue Story

Twenty-seven years ago, Ron Howard’s “Apollo 13” saluted men with the right stuff — quiet courage and grace under pressure. This summer, he’s returned to that magic number for a similar rescue tale but traded the vastness of space for a film deep underground. “Thirteen Lives” is a dramatization of…

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In ‘Thirteen Lives,’ Ron Howard directs the Thai cave rescue

Ron Howard learned years ago on “Apollo 13” that knowing the outcome of a story is different from knowing the story itself

The Independent UK

Thirteen Lives review – thrilling dramatisation of the Thailand cave rescue

Ron Howard’s recreation of the 2018 rescue of a Thai junior football team is an impressively claustrophobic piece of cinema

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Colin Farrell remembers ‘terrifying’ panic attacks while filming underwater scenes for Thirteen Lives

Farrell stars in new film based on the extraordinary Thai cave rescue of 2018

The Independent UK

Viggo Mortensen ‘couldn’t breathe’ while filming scary Thirteen Lives diving sequence

‘It seemed like a long time, but it was only a matter of seconds. I panicked,’ star said

The Independent UK

Thirteen Lives review: Tham Luang cave rescue film is good, but it could have been extraordinary

The tension of this true-life tale – starring Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen – grips like a vice

The Independent UK

‘Thirteen Lives’: Ron Howard’s film depicts Thai cave rescue at both epic and intimate scale

Heroes dive for hours to save the trapped boys in intense, real-life adventure.

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Movie review: ‘Thirteen Lives’ an enthralling dramatization of effort to rescue youth soccer team from cave in Thailand

The effort to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand that captured the world’s attention in 2018 is rivetingly depicted in one of the best directorial efforts by prolific filmmaker Ron Howard.

Tribune News Service

Thirteen Lives review – Ron Howard’s Thai cave-rescue saga told with non-Hollywood heroics

Howard gives this stunning true story the Apollo 13 treatment but swerves Elon Musk’s grotesque ‘pedo’ comment

The Guardian - UK

Going underground: inside Ron Howard’s explosive movie about the Thai cave rescue

Viggo Mortensen plays a heroic firefighter in new movie Thirteen Lives, based on the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their coach in Thailand. But the film isn’t simply a white-saviour narrative, as its director explains

The Guardian - UK

Melbourne international film festival 2022: 10 movies to see, from Crimes of the Future to new George Miller

Miff’s 70th edition offers 371 titles from all over the globe – including 18 world premieres

The Guardian - AU

With 'Thirteen Lives,' Ron Howard Revisits Thai Cave Rescue

The dramatic rescue of 12 youth football players and their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018, a captivating operation already revisited in an award-winning documentary, is now getting the big-screen dramatic treatment from Ron Howard. "Thirteen Lives" hits theaters in North America on July 29, and the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Stars of Thai cave rescue film say it was an 'honour' to be part of the project

In an interview discussing the film, Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell praised the "selfless" and "multifaceted" effort to rescue the boys

Wales Online

'Crimes of the Future' is David Cronenberg’s most transcendent movie yet

With his latest work, David Cronenberg has conjured a cinematic universe of aesthetics and ideas. But what does 'Crimes of the Future' mean?

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Chicago Tribune

‘Crimes of the Future’ review: Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg present a cold, feral vision of the future

A chillingly beautiful dare of a movie, David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” imagines a near-future much like the present, only colder and more feral.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Crimes of the Future’: Commentary’s sharp and so are the scalpels in the year’s freakiest film

People are cutting their mutating bodies in David Cronenberg’s unsettling but thought-provoking dystopian nightmare.

France 24

Film show: David Cronenberg's dystopian sci-fi horror blends surgery and sex

Fresh from her 34th trip to the Cannes Film Festival, FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson shares her highlights from the 75th edition. One of her favourites is "Crimes of the Future", an eerie dystopian tale starring Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux as a couple who perform surgery on each…

The Independent UK

David Cronenberg says he ‘harassed’ Viggo Mortensen into starring in Crimes of the Future

Actor had initially wanted to play a ‘cop’ in the film

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Q&A: Kristen Stewart on Body Horror, Cronenberg and Cannes

In David Cronenberg’s "Crimes of the Future," in which an artist played by Viggo Mortensen has organs and tumors plucked from his body in performance art excavations, Kristen Stewart plays a timid bureaucrat swiftly turned passionate devotee. In Cronenberg’s film, a Cannes Film Festival entry opening June 3 in theaters,…

The Independent UK

Q&A: Kristen Stewart on body horror, Cronenberg and Cannes

In David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” in which an artist played by Viggo Mortensen has organs and tumors plucked from his body in performance art excavations, Kristen Stewart plays a timid bureaucrat swiftly turned passionate devotee

The Independent UK

Crimes of the Future: Kristen Stewart ‘really f***ing proud’ of improvised scene with Viggo Mortensen

‘That was not in the script,’ actor said

The Guardian - UK

‘The US is completely insane’: David Cronenberg on Roe v Wade at Cannes film festival

The Canadian director made the comments at a press conference for his latest body horror film Crimes of the Future

The Independent UK

Crimes of the Future, Cannes review: S&M kitsch and an arch Kristen Stewart result in mid-tier Cronenberg

In its lesser moments, the body horror maestro’s new film is clunky and very close to self-parody

The Guardian - UK

Crimes of the Future review – Cronenberg’s post-pain, post-sex body horror sensation

As he did with 90s hit Crash, the director creates a bizarre new society of sicko sybarites where pain is the ultimate pleasure and ‘surgery is the new sex’

Asharq Al-Awsat

The 21 Films in Competition at Cannes

This year's Cannes Film Festival starting Tuesday has 21 films in competition, including movies from four past winners of the top prize Palme d'Or, as well as several cult favorites. The winners of the 75th edition are to be announced at the closing ceremony on May 28, AFP said. -…

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