‘Bitter Christmas’ Review: And Just Like That… Cannes Almodóvar Really Have it All? [B+] Cannes
Pedro Almodóvar has long treated autobiography less as confession than as a hall of mirrors: memory filtered through melodrama, desire displaced by performance, private wounds... Read More
Martin Tsai
‘Sheep in a Box’ Review: Koreeda’s Take on the AI-ification of Humanity Feels a Bit Soulless [C] Cannes
Hirokazu Koreeda’s Cannes competition entry, Sheep in the Box — in which grieving parents adopt an A.I. replica of their dead child — invites inevitable... Read More
‘The Diary of a Chambermaid’ Review: Radu Jude Dissects Bourgeois Rot Through Formal Mischief and Corrosive Irony [A] Cannes
Octave Mirbeau’s seminal 1900 novel, The Diary of a Chambermaid, has been adapted for the screen five separate times: by M. Martov in 1916, Jean... Read More
‘Nagi Notes’ Review: Kôji Fukada’s Gentle Examination of Intimate, Small Town Relationships Pays Off for Those with Patience [A-] Cannes
Kôji Fukada has spent the past two decades quietly consolidating his place in world cinema, advancing by increments from the sidebars to the main slates... Read More
‘See You When I See You’ Review: Jay Duplass’s Overly Careful Tale of Family Grief Remains at Arm’s Length [C+] | Sundance
Jay Duplass’s latest feature, See You When I See You, feels light-years removed from the shaggy, conversational looseness that once defined Mumblecore. Where Duplass’s early... Read More
‘In the Blink of an Eye’ Review: Andrew Stanton’s Feature Film Return is an Epic, Triptych Timeline Stunner [A] | Sundance
Andrew Stanton’s career at Pixar once unfolded with the clean inevitability of a well-told parable. He directed A Bug’s Life, Finding Nemo, and WALL•E—films that... Read More
‘The Moment’ Review: Charli xcx is brat+ in Trappings of Fame Mock Doc [B] | Sundance
On Friday night at the Eccles Theatre in Park City, Utah, Sundance attendees found themselves in the midst of an unplanned Charli xcx double feature.... Read More
‘Back Home’ Review: In Barely an Hour Tsai Ming-liang Asks ‘What is a Home?’ [B] Venice
Tsai Ming-liang has become a progressively more esoteric filmmaker since he began his career three and a half decades ago. A lot of his recent... Read More
‘Resurrection’ Review: Let Bi Gans Be Bi Gans [A] Cannes
Following the unexpected successes, both critical and commercial (in its native China at least), of 2018’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Bi Gan returns with... Read More
‘Woman and Child’ Review: Saeed Roustaee’s Iranian Mother Melodrama Finds a Family Torn Part [A-] Cannes
In spite of Iran’s excessively punitive stifling of artistic expression, its filmmakers continue to knock it out of the park even at the risk of... Read More
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 345: Recapping the 79th Cannes Film Festival and Looking to the Awards Future 
‘The Beloved’ Review: Javier Bardem Makes a Meal Out of Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Movie-Making Buffet [B] 
‘The Dreamed Adventure’ Review: Valeska Grisebach’s Observant Thriller Examines the Grey Zones of Morality [B+] 
‘Minotaur’ Review: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Timeless, Domestic Epic is an Unflinching Look at Putin’s Russia [A] Cannes