Film Reviews

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

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

Cannes Review: Park Chan-wook’s ‘Decision to Leave’ subverts and embraces its Hitchcockian nature with Tang Wei’s pitch-perfect femme fatale [Grade: A]

Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave plays like Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, albeit with a twist. It isn’t self-referential or reflexive at… Read More

May 24, 2022

Cannes Review: Alex Garland’s thriller ‘Men’ makes its point with half-baked politics [Grade: B]

Men will make you want to rewatch Get Out. Alex Garland’s latest is every bit as frightening and graphic as… Read More

May 24, 2022

Cannes Review: With ‘Crimes of the Future’, horror-master David Cronenberg entices your inhumanly appetite and gets under your skin [Grade: B]

With a star-studded cast and a sexy marketing campaign to precede it, Crimes of the Future promises an electrifying affair… Read More

May 24, 2022

Cannes Review: ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ is a gentle feast about the endurance of love in all its forms from master George Miller [Grade: B+]

If, like me, news of a George Miller movie at Cannes piqued your appetite for another dripping hamburger in the… Read More

May 23, 2022

‘The Bob’s Burgers Movie’ review: The Emmy-winning show is a gag a minute blast, makes a triumphant leap to film [Grade: B+]

Like most television shows, it took Bob’s Burgers a few episodes to get cooking. Once it did, it became a… Read More

May 23, 2022

Cannes Review: ‘Corsage’ doesn’t reinvent the genre but Vicky Krieps leads Marie Kreutzer’s Austrian period drama with fragility and forte [Grade: B+]

For her fifth feature, Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer turns to the history books, and more specifically, to a female figure… Read More

May 23, 2022

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