‘Youth (Homecoming)’ Review: Wang Bing’s 10-Hour Doc Trilogy Disappoints in its Closing Workshop Saga | Venice
Wang Bing’s mammoth Youth documentary trilogy chronicles the lives of migrant workers in Zhili, China, garment sweatshops from 2014 to 2019. The films provide a... Read More
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‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2’ Review: I Think We’ve Seen This Film Before and We Still Don’t Have an Ending | Venice
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 made only $36 million at the box office, prompting Warner Bros. to yank Chapter 2 from its original... Read More
‘The Brutalist’ Review: Adrien Brody Gives a Shattering Performance in the Cinematic Event of the Year | Venice
If Megalopolis were half decent, it might look a lot like The Brutalist. While this review solely focuses on the latter, the two films just... Read More
‘Cloud’ Review: Japan’s Oscar Entry Finds Kiyoshi Kurosawa Matching Madness and Madcap in Online Reselling Satirical Thriller | Venice
Japan’s official Oscar entry and Venice Film Festival selection, Cloud finds J-horror master Kiyoshi Kurosawa comfortably in his wheelhouse. It’s an atmospheric thriller imbued with... Read More
‘To Live, To Die, To Live Again’ Review: Gaël Morel’s AIDS-era Drama Doesn’t Break New Ground but Doesn’t Need to Either | Cannes
Can you believe it’s been about a decade since the last major film that addressed HIV and AIDS? For a long while the theme dominated... 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
‘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
‘Parthenope’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino is Once Again Obsessed with a Great Beauty | Cannes
Parthenope is the coming-of-age story of an impossibly beautiful woman, much as in Giuseppe Tornatore’s Malèna, who turns heads everywhere she goes. Fortunately, the titular... Read More
‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1’ Review: Kevin Costner’s Meandering Western Epic is a Cowboy in Search of a Herd | Cannes
Kevin Costner’s first major artistic undertaking since his career boom courtesy of the blockbuster TV series Yellowstone, Horizon: An American Saga, the opening chapter of... Read More
‘FAYE’ Review: Laurent Bouzereau Finds Morsels of Truth in one of Hollywood’s Most Venerable and Vilified Stars | Cannes
Premiering in the Cannes Classics section of the fest’s 77th edition, FAYE, Laurent Bouzereau’s documentary on Hollywood icon Faye Dunaway, is very much the standard-issue... Read More
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