Reviews

Cannes Review: Lukas Dhont’s ‘Close’ is a delicate coming of age tale with a miraculous debut performance from Eden Dambrine [Grade: A]

Lukas Dhont's sophomore feature, Close, is a remarkably well-directed film about childhood grief in a time maybe of its greatest… Read More

May 27, 2022

‘P-Valley’ Season Two review: Uncle Clifford and the girls are back open for business in the midst of COVID [Grade: B-]

It’s been two years since Starz’s breakout summer hit P-Valley has graced the small screens for viewers. The first season… Read More

May 27, 2022

Cannes Review: Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn set their love ablaze in Claire Denis’ steamy Nicaragua-set romance ‘Stars at Noon’ [Grade: A]

Trish (Margaret Qualley) is a journalist whose press card is being revoked and her stay in Nicaragua compromised, and her… Read More

May 27, 2022

‘Fire Island’ review: Escape to a Never-Never Land full of tea and sympathy in the year’s funniest and sexiest queer rom-com [Grade: A-]

Fire Island is a bright celebration of what friendship stands for: sharing laughs and creating fond memories with your best… Read More

May 27, 2022

Cannes Review: ‘Elvis’ is a terrible yet wildly entertaining biopic featuring a brilliant titular performance by Austin Butler [Grade: C+]

A fiercely conventional biopic with all the musical analysis of a Spotify playlist, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is, more often than… Read More

May 26, 2022

Cannes Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘Broker’ is a tender story of chosen families led by a beguiling performance from Lee Ji-eun [Grade: A+]

Cannes favourite Hirokazu Kore-eda, who won the 2018 Palme d’Or for Shoplifters, has returned to the Cote d’Azur-set film festival… Read More

May 26, 2022

One year later, ‘Bo Burnham: Inside’ remains a perfect pandemic time capsule [Retrospective]

Bo Burnham: Inside is premised upon both a literal and artistic isolation; a one-man special created in a backyard shed,… Read More

May 26, 2022

Cannes Review: Mark Jenkin’s Cornish thriller ‘Enys Men’ is an unnerving, off-beat experimental horror unlike any other [Grade: B+]

Born and raised in Cornwall, England, writer-director Mark Jenkin continues to draw on his local, beloved surroundings with his sophomore… Read More

May 26, 2022

Cannes Review: Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s English-language debut ‘The Silent Twins’ is a bewitching ode to female kinship [Grade: A+]

Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczyńska returns to Cannes four years after her Fugue premiered in Semaine de la Critique (aka Critics… Read More

May 25, 2022

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