‘Next Life’ Review: Emilia Clarke Navigates Parallel Lives and Sliding Doors in Drake Doremus’s Wishy-Washy Romance [C+] Tribeca Festival
Drake Doremus broke through in 2011 with his fourth feature, Like Crazy, a Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner that arrived at a moment when indie... Read More
Film Reviews
‘The Death of Robin Hood’ Review: Gritty Take on the Folk Legend Takes Rich Text and Makes it Poor [C-]
The opening minutes of 1938’s The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn as the folk legend, show him striding into the banquet hall of... Read More
‘Disclosure Day’ Review: What Spielberg Wants to Know Is, Can We Get a Little Closer? [A-]
The truth is out there, and we all know it. To many of us, living in contemporary society requires constant vigilance in order to not... Read More
‘La Gradiva’ Review: Marine Atlan’s Coming of Age Story Debut Erupts with Keen Observation [A]
Coming-of-age films often rely on a familiar promise: place a group of teenagers together, let their personalities collide, and watch adulthood slowly emerge from the... Read More
‘Masters of the Universe’ Review: Travis Knight’s He-Man Reboot is the Ideal Version of a Movie Made to Sell Toys [B-]
Some film franchises are sustained by merchandise sales tied to the movie. Pixar’s Cars remains a wildly popular toy franchise for children, despite the now... Read More
‘Parallel Tales’ Review: Asghar Farhadi’s Kieślowski Dupe Fumbles Its Fact vs Fiction Story [D+]
For a filmmaker whose reputation was built on some of the most intricately written dramas of the century, Parallel Tales emerges as a strangely puzzling... Read More
‘The Beloved’ Review: Javier Bardem Makes a Meal Out of Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Movie-Making Buffet [B]
In 1990, Francis Ford Coppola, seeking several reversals of fortune after years of critical and commercial struggles, directed The Godfather Part III, starring Al Pacino,... Read More
‘The Dreamed Adventure’ Review: Valeska Grisebach’s Observant Thriller Examines the Grey Zones of Morality [B+]
What is striking about The Dreamed Adventure is how quietly it unfolds at first. The film begins almost like a subdued thriller, a mysterious search... Read More
‘Minotaur’ Review: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Timeless, Domestic Epic is an Unflinching Look at Putin’s Russia [A] Cannes
The tales and lessons found within Greek mythology have struck a chord with audiences for centuries. The heroes and deities in these stories may not... Read More
Cannes 2026 Reviews: ‘The Unknown,’ ‘A Man of His Time,’ ‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’
When coming to the Cannes Film Festival, a number of factors go into selecting films to fill your viewing schedule for the two-week celebration of... Read More
‘Next Life’ Review: Emilia Clarke Navigates Parallel Lives and Sliding Doors in Drake Doremus’s Wishy-Washy Romance [C+] Tribeca Festival 
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