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 Reichardt’s Showing Up is a... Read More
Adam Solomons
Adam Solomons is a critic and journalist who combines his love of cinema with an insatiable hunger for news and politics. Day-to-day he’s a producer at Times Radio, with The Times of London. Adam is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic with bylines at Sight & Sound, Indiewire, and more. His favorite movie is still Toy Story 2.
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 not, an affront to cinema.... Read More
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 we might’ve expected (and hoped).... Read More
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 vein of Mad Max: Fury... Read More
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 of Z) may, with the... Read More
‘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 of art is “skill.” Though... Read More
Interview: Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski on making three movies in one year with Ridley Scott including ‘The Last Duel’ and ‘House of Gucci’
Like many of his colleagues in the cinematography world, Dariusz Wolski’s career only begins to make sense when you realise it sort of doesn’t. Not... Read More
TIFF Review: Poland’s Oscar entry ‘Leave No Traces’ is a sobering thriller about the state of police brutality [Grade: B]
Though director Jan Matuszyńki insists Burn After Reading was the single biggest influence on his sophomore feature and Oscars entry, Leave No Traces is not... Read More
Interview: Jan Matuszyński on his Oscar-shortlisted political thriller ‘Leave No Traces’
For one of Poland’s most exciting new filmmakers, Jan Matuszyński has few influences from his native country. In describing political thriller Leave No Traces (‘Żeby... Read More
Venice Review: ‘Scenes from a Marriage’ is a worthy retread with staggering performances from Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain [Grade: B+]
It’s not common for me to advise readers to watch a 294-minute limited series in one go. But Scenes from a Marriage, HBO’s new Ingmar... Read More
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Michigan Movie Critics Guild Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another’ Leads with 12