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Best of the Fest: 12 Essential Films From Berlin 2023
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Four people are confined to a seaside house in the German filmmaker's quietly apocalyptic mystery about artistic anxiety
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An enticingly snowy and spooky premise is wasted on an overlong, unsatisfying, and poorly acted murder-mystery from Scott Cooper
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