Interview: Writer-Director Sophie Dupuis on Toxic Relationships, the Power of Drag, and Creating Safe, Authentic Spaces on Set in ‘Solo’
Initially premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall where it won Best Canadian Feature Film, Solo is a captivating love story that challenges... Read More
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‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ Review: Vicky Krieps Rides High in Viggo Mortensen’s Slow, Sparse Western
The Western is a tricky genre to fully define. Whereas horror movies have to have scares and musicals have to have songs, it’s not always... Read More
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 233: ‘Furiosa’ Review, Cannes Winners, First Oscar Predictions
On episode 233 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson to discuss director George Miller’s latest film,... Read More
‘To a Land Unknown’ Review: Mahdi Fleifel’s Thriller about Stranded Palestinian Refugees is Powerful and Unpretentious | Cannes
Mahdi Fleifel’s directorial debut in fiction, To a Land Unknown, follows the harrowing journey of Chatila (Mahmood Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbah), two Palestinian cousins... Read More
‘Bird’ Review: Andrea Arnold’s Fable is Salvation in Pure Cinematic Form | Cannes
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold has always been interested in humans: the way they live, love, and carry their wounds through a world that is not... Read More
77th Cannes Film Festival Awards: ‘Anora’ Wins Palme d’Or, Four ‘Emilia Pérez’ Women Take Best Actress
Sean Baker’s sex worker drama-comedy-romance Anora has won the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. Baker is the first American filmmaker to take... Read More
‘Baby’ Review: Marcelo Caetano’s Coming of Age Story is a Thoughtful Look at Predatory Power | Cannes
Cannes Critics’ Week selection Baby tells the heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a young man desperately in search of a father figure and systematically failed by... Read More
‘All We Imagine as Light’ Review: Mumbai Comes Alive in Payal Kapadia’s Complex ‘Little Women’-esque Portrait of Sisterhood | Cannes
Mumbai is alive in Payal Kapadia’s stunning second feature All We Imagine as Light. It’s a boundless shape-shifter, always moving its millions of disparate parts,... Read More
‘Black Dog’ Wins 2024 Un Certain Regard Award,’ ‘The Story of Souleymane’ Takes Jury and Acting Prizes | Cannes
Chinese director Guan Hu’s Black Dog has taken the top prize in the section from Xavier Dolan‘s jury, which was comprised of French-Senegalese screenwriter and director Maïmouna... Read More
‘Misericordia’ Review: Alain Guiraudie’s Mines Comedy and Melodrama in Tale of Repression and Loneliness | Cannes
Stranger by the Lake writer-director Alain Guiraudie remixes his favorite themes – loneliness, longing, unrequited love, obsession, secret, crime, coverup – once again in his... Read More
‘Wishful Thinking,’ ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Among 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Juried and Audience Award Winners 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More 
Trailer Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘Dune: Part Three,’ Disclosure Day,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine’