‘The Summer Book’ Review: Charlie McDowell’s Delicate Finnish Tale Gives Way to a Compelling Performance from Glenn Close | London Film Festival
An island out at the Gulf of Finland was a haven for Tove Jansson, author of the famous Moomin books. It’s a place she would... Read More
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‘Blitz’ Review: A Solid Saoirse Ronan but Steve McQueen’s WWII Story Feels Too Tidy | London Film Festival
Anyone who has grown up in Britain will be intimately familiar with the narrative of the country’s enduring spirit in the Second World War. All... 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
‘Armand’ Review: Renate Reinsve is Electric as a Woman on the Verge in Halfdan Ullman Tøndel’s Enigmatic Debut | Cannes
Ever since Renate Reinsve stunned the Cannes Film Festival as a disaffected millennial in Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World in 2021, the... Read More
‘Memoria’ review: Tilda Swinton investigates an eerie mystery in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s slow-burning epic [Cannes Review]
It starts with a bang. Not the metaphorical, head-first into action kind of bang — not that you would ever expect that from an Apichatpong... Read More
‘Titane’ review: Julia Ducournau revs up the body horror in her masterfully audacious follow-up to ‘Raw’ [Cannes Review]
How do you solve a problem like talking about Titane? Julia Ducournau’s film is best seen blind. Really, if you haven’t watched it, you should... Read More
‘Benedetta’ review: Praise be, Paul Verhoeven’s silly and sizzling hot nun summer is here [Cannes Review]
“We’re all entitled to a sin,” one nun confesses to her attentive Sister Benedetta (Virginie Efira). And sin she indeed does, so much so that... Read More
Eliza Scanlen was moving at a mile a minute, that is, until she wasn’t. Like everyone else, the pandemic interrupted Scanlen’s everyday life, though at... Read More
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