Adam Solomons

‘Master Gardener’ review: Paul Schrader’s latest tortured soul fare is rotten to its roots [D] | Venice Review

At Barcelona Football Club’s fearsome home ground Camp Nou, the world’s largest soccer stadium, devotees disappointed by their team’s performance… Read More

September 4, 2022

‘Un Couple’ review: Frederick Wiseman’s first ever ‘fictional’ film imbues Tolstoy in his strange, artful ode to a woman [B] | Venice Film Festival

Un Couple has been described as legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s first fictional, feature-length film. In truth it is neither. The… Read More

September 2, 2022

‘White Noise’ review: Noah Baumbach’s 1980s family drama builds up steam and lets off a whimper [B] | Venice Film Festival

Edgier and more expressionistic than anything we’ve seen from a director whose commercial sensibility can sometimes border on cautious, White… Read More

August 31, 2022

Cannes Review: ‘Showing Up’ gets closer to Kelly Reichardt’s creative process than any of her films yet [Grade: A-]

A disarmingly down-the-line film about a repressed artist trying to communicate a little better with the people around her, Kelly… Read More

May 28, 2022

Cannes Review: ‘Elvis’ is a terrible yet wildly entertaining biopic featuring a brilliant titular performance by Austin Butler [Grade: C+]

A fiercely conventional biopic with all the musical analysis of a Spotify playlist, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is, more often than… Read More

May 26, 2022

Cannes Review: Alex Garland’s thriller ‘Men’ makes its point with half-baked politics [Grade: B]

Men will make you want to rewatch Get Out. Alex Garland’s latest is every bit as frightening and graphic as… Read More

May 24, 2022

Cannes Review: ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ is a gentle feast about the endurance of love in all its forms from master George Miller [Grade: B+]

If, like me, news of a George Miller movie at Cannes piqued your appetite for another dripping hamburger in the… Read More

May 23, 2022

Cannes Review: ‘Armageddon Time’ is a world-class coming-of-ager powered by a raft of terrific performances [Grade: A-]

One of America’s most talented filmmakers for the best part of two decades, James Gray (Ad Astra, The Lost City… Read More

May 21, 2022

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ review: Tom Cruise plays it safe in this ruthlessly competent but frustratingly distant sequel [Grade: B-] | Cannes Review

Tom Cruise was being honest when he told a crowd in Cannes on Wednesday that he believes the main ingredient… Read More

May 20, 2022

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