Film Reviews

Tribeca Film Festival Review: ‘Don’t Make Me Go’ can’t leave well enough alone [Grade: B]

Don’t Make Me Go achieves the rare feat of showing its hand too often and still not earning its final… Read More

June 15, 2022

‘Lightyear’ review: Pixar reshapes the stubborn space ranger into a relatable hero and almost takes representation to infinity and beyond [Grade: B]

When it comes to Pixar, the best animated film studio in the world, there is just one thing you can’t… Read More

June 13, 2022

‘Jurassic World Dominion’ review: Trevorrow and company deliver one last disastrous dino dud to finish off this depleted franchise [Grade: D]

Let’s wind the clocks back, to what feels like millions of years ago, when big studios used practical effects and… Read More

June 8, 2022

Cannes Review: Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s ‘War Pony’ is a well-intended but often performative look at letting Lakota people telling their stories [Grade: B-]

The origin story of Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s feature debut, War Pony, coincides with the production of another film,… Read More

May 28, 2022

Cannes Review: Paul Mescal plays a troubled father in Charlotte Wells’ delicately stunning debut, ‘Aftersun’ [Grade A-]

What can we do with our fickle memories of childhood, especially the ones painting our parents with idealistic brush strokes,… Read More

May 28, 2022

Cannes Review: ‘Showing Up’ gets closer to Kelly Reichardt’s creative process than any of her films yet [Grade: A-]

A disarmingly down-the-line film about a repressed artist trying to communicate a little better with the people around her, Kelly… Read More

May 28, 2022

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

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

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