“The President’s Pimp” – Hollywood Elsewhere

So far the 2022 Cannes Film Festival has felt weak. Okay, pretty good but not good enough. A pair of triples (R.M.N., the first half of Triangle of Sadness) but in terms of terms of excellence or ambition or primal goading madness, no homers or grand slams.

May 23, 2022 by Jeffrey Wells No Comments

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