‘La Chimera’ review: Alice Rohwacher’s most accomplished work to date digs into life, love, and grave-robbing | Cannes
The concept of a chimera, however colloquialized, still remains a bit too abstract to pin down. If one approaches Alice Rohrwacher’s fourth feature, La Chimera,... Read More
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‘The Pot Au Feu’ review: Trần Anh Hùng offers a feast for the eyes but is missing a key ingredient | Cannes
Have you ever cried when you tasted something for the first time? In The Pot Au Feu, the most mouth-watering edition to this year’s Cannes... Read More
‘Fallen Leaves’ review: Love wins in Aki Kaurismäki’s tender tragicomedy of the working class that finds him at his romantic best | Cannes
A title as poetic as Fallen Leaves entirely suits the fourth installment of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s working-class series, which began with Shadows in Paradise,... Read More
‘The Zone of Interest’ review: Jonathan Glazer’s Auschwitz-set drama is monumental in its representation of the seen and unseen horror of the Holocaust | Cannes
Exactly ten years after the singular sci-fi achievement that was Under the Skin, writer-director Jonathan Glazer is back in Cannes’ Main Competition with a new,... Read More
‘In Water (mul-an-e-seo)’ review: Hong Sang-soo blurs the lines of his own self-reference to middling effect | Berlinale
What’s a year without a Hong Sang-soo film? Does a film festival even exist, if it does not feature a regular slot for the prolific... Read More
‘Past Lives’ review: Celine Song’s poignant debut is a nuanced little wonder | Berlinale
Three devastatingly attractive people are sitting at a bar: who are they? Or more importantly, who are they to each other? This initial curiosity bordering... Read More
‘Manodrome’ review: Jesse Eisenberg is phenomenal in John Trengove’s fascinating take on toxic masculinity | Berlinale
The Wound, the acclaimed debut by the South African director John Trengove, provides a good launchpad for his sophomore feature, with Xhosa initiation traditions swapped... Read More
‘Reality’ review: Sydney Sweeney is a tour de force in intense U.S. election whistleblower thriller | Berlinale
Playwright Tina Satter makes her screen debut with Reality, a simmering investigative drama reconstructing the arrest of Reality Winner, an NSA contractor and ex-Air Force... Read More
‘The Adults’ review: Dustin Guy Defa misses the mark in this quirky family drama | Berlinale
American indie favorite Dustin Guy Defa returns to Berlinale with a feature almost a decade after his short film Person to Person screened fresh out... Read More
‘BlackBerry’ review: 90s nostalgia yields little cinematic juice in what feels like mid-TV at best | Berlinale
BlackBerry, the follow-up to his 2016 docu-fiction Operation Avalanche, sees actor-director Matt Johnson put inventors, investors, and the internet to the test in a nostalgia-fueled... Read More
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