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Actor returned to the role in 2021’s ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’

Film about a break-in artist robbing a home he can’t escape seems like a muddled statement about art.

In the new film “Inside,” Willem Dafoe goes it alone as an art thief who breaks into a billionaire’s luxury penthouse with only seven minutes to get in, snatch a few multimillion-dollar paintings, and get out.

“Art is for keeps.” This turn of phrase, uttered by Willem Dafoe’s character Nemo in Vasilis Katsoupis’ narrative directorial debut “Inside,” is a bedeviling little saying of multi-layered meaning. It rattles around in your brain like a pinball, much in the way Nemo rattles around the luxury apartment where he’s…

Director Vasilis Katsoupis poses an interesting question about the futility of wealth as the price of freedom, but ultimately can't find a way out.

Willem Dafoe had his co-star Emma Stone slap him about 20 times for their new film, And, even though he was off camera.

‘There’s this instinct to perform that many actors have. He’s the opposite of that’

Dafoe excels as an art thief trapped inside a super-rich art collector’s apartment in this claustrophobic fiction feature debut from Vasilis Katsoupis

The acclaimed director of 'The Witch' and 'The Northman' is bringing his career full circle, back to the movie that inspired his obsession for cinema macabre.