Reviews

‘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… Read More

May 24, 2024

‘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… Read More

May 24, 2024

‘Everybody Loves Touda’ Review: Nisrine Erradi’s Nuanced Performance Elevates Nabil Ayouch’s Return to Form | Cannes

For over two decades, Nabil Ayouch has been a dominant force in Moroccan cinema, crafting films that have garnered both… Read More

May 23, 2024

‘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… Read More

May 23, 2024

‘The Surfer’ Review: Nicolas Cage is at his Unhinged Best in Goofy Tragi-Comic Folly About Toxic Masculinity | Cannes

Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan’s previous film Vivarium explored the horrors of suburban domesticity. His latest, The Surfer, which played out… Read More

May 22, 2024

‘Anora’ Review: Sean Baker’s Joyous New York City Tale Finds Love in a Hopeless Place and a Superstar in Mikey Madison | Cannes

Not every girl wants to be somebody’s princess, but anyone who does, should be given the opportunity. This is not… Read More

May 22, 2024

‘The Shrouds’ Review: David Cronenberg’s Exploration of Loss Ends Up Digging Its Own Grave | Cannes

We love it when a prominent auteur uses cinema to take stock of time passed and the remaining time; to… Read More

May 21, 2024

‘The Apprentice’ Review: Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong are the Perfect Toxic Duo in Ali Abbasi’s Story of Donald Trump’s Rise | Cannes

Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi is really going against the grain of auteurism. His last three films have all premiered in… Read More

May 21, 2024

‘Limonov – The Ballad’ Review: Ben Whishaw is Unrestrained in Inspired Biopic of the Rebel Vagabond | Cannes

Returning to the Croisette with a euphoric, rebellious bang, Cannes regular Kirill Serebrennikov (2018’s Leto, 2021’s Petrov’s Flu, 2022’s Tchaikovsky’s… Read More

May 20, 2024

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