Ben Rolph

‘The Stranger’ review: Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris face off in this taut, unnerving Australian detective drama [B+] | LFF

Thomas Wright’s Australian detective drama stars Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris, and it’s a gripping film that is unconventionally delicate.… Read More

October 12, 2022

‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical’ review: A joyous, magical, fun-filled adventure [B+] | LFF

The opening frame of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical is startling, absurd, as animation-like rays beam off of newly born… Read More

October 7, 2022

‘The Midnight Club’ review: Mike Flanagan scores again with YA horror full of kills and thrills [A]

Mike Flanagan, creator of The Haunting of Hill House, Bly Manor and Midnight Mass, continues his winning streak with Netflix as his latest delivers… Read More

October 7, 2022

‘On the Fringe’ review: Juan Diego Botto’s directorial debut with Penélope Cruz is an ambitious but fractured effort [C] | Zurich

Juan Diego Botto’s directorial debut pulls no swings when it comes to social realism, it is a restless drama that… Read More

September 28, 2022

‘The Swimmers’ review: Sally El Hosaini’s drama is a harrowing true tale of survival and dreams [B+] | Zurich

As long as cinema has existed, there have been “based on true events” films. George Méliès’ Joan of Arc (Jean… Read More

September 24, 2022

Cannes Review: Lukas Dhont’s ‘Close’ is a delicate coming of age tale with a miraculous debut performance from Eden Dambrine [Grade: A]

Lukas Dhont's sophomore feature, Close, is a remarkably well-directed film about childhood grief in a time maybe of its greatest… Read More

May 27, 2022

Cannes Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘Broker’ is a tender story of chosen families led by a beguiling performance from Lee Ji-eun [Grade: A+]

Cannes favourite Hirokazu Kore-eda, who won the 2018 Palme d’Or for Shoplifters, has returned to the Cote d’Azur-set film festival… Read More

May 26, 2022

Cannes Review: Mark Jenkin’s Cornish thriller ‘Enys Men’ is an unnerving, off-beat experimental horror unlike any other [Grade: B+]

Born and raised in Cornwall, England, writer-director Mark Jenkin continues to draw on his local, beloved surroundings with his sophomore… Read More

May 26, 2022

Cannes Review: Park Chan-wook’s ‘Decision to Leave’ subverts and embraces its Hitchcockian nature with Tang Wei’s pitch-perfect femme fatale [Grade: A]

Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave plays like Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, albeit with a twist. It isn’t self-referential or reflexive at… Read More

May 24, 2022

Cannes Review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s ‘Tchaikovsky’s Wife’ portrays a woman of quiet anonymity and obsession [Grade: B]

Many films have been made about famed 19th century composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, but little has been documented and told… Read More

May 22, 2022

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