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Tomris Laffly

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Film Writer/Critic | ✍🏼 Variety, RogerEbert.com, The Playlist, The Wrap, Vanity Fair, TIME, Vulture, W Mag, Filmmaker Mag etc. | NYFCC member | Dog lover… ♥️

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · May 27

I screened 40 titles exactly in the #Cannes lineup, and here are 15 films that excited me the most. Lynne Ramsay! Oliver Hermanus! Bi Gan! Joachim Trier! Hafzia Herzi! Oh mon dieu… For Elle Magazine: www.elle.com/culture/movi...

The 15 Best Cannes Films That Will Dominate This Awards Season

Charli xcx was right; it is Joachim Trier Summer.

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 3h

Trump basically put a bunch of racist and misogynist thugs (who NO DOUBT beat their wives/girlfriends/kids) in charge with weapons. F*ck ICE.

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 6h

via @youranonnews.bsky.social

CHICAGO: Trump's lawless goons (ICE) make a U-turn and smash into a woman's car, then proceed to arrest her by dragging her out of the vehicle.

Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 15h

Just love that Bradley Cooper went from the studiously excellent MAESTRO, to the loose-limbed & casually enchanting IS THIS THING ON?. A filmmaker who can operate in every mold, he’s the real deal. Lovely chemistry between Will Arnett & Laura Dern, a very New York #NYFF closing.

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 1d

To whom it may concern:
If your budget is $25 (+ a modest meal) for a project that will take hours of prep, + few of hours of in-person presence w/ a local commute, you should not advertise it as a job on LinkedIn. That is more or less volunteering. Or a hobby. It’s not a job.

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 1d

On most days, I complain about a freelancer’s life. But on rare days, freelancing is a sigh of relief, knowing (for instance) that no power in the world can make you suffer through that new Tron: Something movie.

(PSA: Joachim Rønning’s Young Woman & The Sea is awesome though.)

Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 1d

NYFF tickets are expensive. So why on earth would you spend all that money just to come to the theater & scroll text messages and Instagram? I genuinely don’t get it. This might come as a shock, but YOU CAN DO THAT AT HOME, FOR FREE. Without being an asshole to the rest of us.

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 1d

What you should do is go to the Jafar Panahi & Martin Scorsese talk tomorrow at NYFF. And after that, come to my talk on Tuesday, 10/14 after a screening of the masterful IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. Looks sold-out now, but keep an eye — sometimes tix become available. I’m beyond honored to do this.

It Was Just an Accident

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi reaffirms his status as one of this century’s great cinematic heroes in perhaps his bravest film yet, a tale of revenge and moral choice that won him the Palme d’Or at t...

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. Also in Spy, Juliet Naked, Meddler, Insidious 2, Neighbors, Get Him to the Greek etc. No room to count all her credits in both great projects, and in not-so-great ones that she immediately lifts up just by being in them.

Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 2d

>>> will make everyone see the range of her talents in comedy, drama & horror. And make no mistake, Byrne planted the seeds of this stunning performance in INSIDIOUS, playing another struggling mom whose kid suffers from something unnamed. I just love her so much.

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 2d

In this house, we’ve always been big Rose Bryne fans, knowing she had the toughest part in BRIDESMAIDS (& she makes it look easy) & can turn even the most ordinary line into gold in every role that she plays. Hopefully, Mary Bronstein’s IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU, one of my Sundance favorites >>>

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

When was the last time Trump was interviewed solo on-camera by a non-servile journalist? Because it's starting to feel like that may not happen again. The risk of him being publicly challenged about factual basic information--like, "Portland is not burning"--is too great for his handlers to permit.

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 2d

They’ll report whatever “success” they’ll want to report. They’ll lie, no doubt.

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 2d

Looks gross. Eww.
And Amazon paid $40 million for it, to suck up to the fascists that are governing us.
I hope it tanks. I hope it fails comically and miserably.

Melania Trump Documentary From Amazon MGM Studios Sets Release Date

The Melania Trump documentary that Amazon MGM Studios spent $40 million to license will be released in January.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know who antifa is or how to find them, so I suspect they're the same people who knew when R.E.M. was doing their secret shows at the 40 Watt and never let me in on it.

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 2d

A lead actress calling herself a lead actress is the real deal. More of this.

Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 2d

One of the great things about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is how every character, regardless of screen time, is written with such depth and richness. To me, this aspect of the film isn’t even debatable. A masterful script.

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 2d

Generally in awards, I don’t care who has better chance where. She is a lead in this movie, and thus she should go lead.

Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 2d

GREEN ACRES, BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, AND HOOTERVILLE JUNCTION.

Few things in culture right now make as much sense as Chase Infiniti campaigning in Lead Actress. #OneBattleAfterAnother

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 2d

If you were at Monday’s MARTY SUPREME premiere at #NYFF63 & joined in the cheers & applause after a certain dog scene, I need you to know that it is *I* who started it.

Don’t think I’ve been prouder of any recent accomplishment. My deepest thanks to all who followed my lead. 🐶

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 3d

Did god’s work and cleaned up several gigs of space from my Gmail finally. (No, Google. Not upgrading my storage and paying you $$. Nope.)

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RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 3d

"Stick with the film and its many rewards,” writes @tomilaffly.bsky.social in her review of Luca Guadagnino’s AFTER THE HUNT, where she praises a "truly breathtaking Julia Roberts” & the film’s "clear-eyed reckoning w/ a time when most people lost the ability to hold multiple truths simultaneously.”

After the Hunt movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

Sometimes, we should be made uncomfortable. And that is, in the end, what “After the Hunt” attempts and mostly succeeds in.

www.rogerebert.com

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 3d

This happened to us last year, and learning that it is a common occurrence—that rats crawl into your car engine and start a new, warm, cozy life there—was nightmarish. Good luck. (And whatever spray they recommend after repairing your car, get it.)

Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 3d

“…..the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030.”

Horrifying, devastating read. This administration and its supporters are evil, evil people. No other way to spin it.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 3d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER still rips. But for the life of me, no idea why the IMAX 70mm I saw today is darker (by a LOT) than the pitch-perfect, flawlessly to-die-for 70mm I saw at @filmlinc.bsky.social couple weeks ago. Why do chain theaters suck like this? Thought we went there for magic.

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 3d

“Congratulations. You are now a member of the Christmas Adventurers Club.”

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