Film Reviews

Cannes Review: Ali Abbasi returns to Cannes with the terrifying Persian noir ‘Holy Spider’ [Grade: B+]

Four years after Border won the top prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard strand, Iranian-born filmmaker Ali Abbasi sparked a… Read More

May 23, 2022

Cannes Review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s ‘Tchaikovsky’s Wife’ portrays a woman of quiet anonymity and obsession [Grade: B]

Many films have been made about famed 19th century composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, but little has been documented and told… Read More

May 22, 2022

Cannes Review: Absences haunt Mia Hansen-Løve’s raw, but deeply humanistic ‘One Fine Morning’ [Grade: A]

Halfway through Mia Hansen-Løve’s eighth feature, one character pokes at another referring to life and its “complex things you wouldn’t… Read More

May 21, 2022

Cannes Review: ‘Armageddon Time’ is a world-class coming-of-ager powered by a raft of terrific performances [Grade: A-]

One of America’s most talented filmmakers for the best part of two decades, James Gray (Ad Astra, The Lost City… Read More

May 21, 2022

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ review: Tom Cruise plays it safe in this ruthlessly competent but frustratingly distant sequel [Grade: B-] | Cannes Review

Tom Cruise was being honest when he told a crowd in Cannes on Wednesday that he believes the main ingredient… Read More

May 20, 2022

‘The Valet’ review: Eugenio Derbez charms in French farce remake but attempts to take on deep topics get stuck in first gear [Grade: B-]

There is a lot of discourse around foreign language films being remade for English-speaking audiences. While sometimes it feels completely… Read More

May 18, 2022

‘Operation Mincemeat’ review: A surprisingly light British war drama illuminates a story too fantastical to be fiction [Grade: B]

Wars have always been full of stories that are so fantastical, they can only be true. The real story behind… Read More

May 10, 2022

Review: ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ brings Sam Raimi’s deliciously twisted sensibilities to the MCU, Elizabeth Olsen is film’s MVP [Grade: B+]

Hot off the combined success of Avengers: Endgame, WandaVision, and What If? Marvel certainly had no shortage of characters to… Read More

May 3, 2022

Review: ‘Firebird’ reaches for the sky but fizzles out with familiarity [Grade: B-]

More romance and less thriller, Firebird is packed with brilliant performances, but the lack of audacious choices and the very… Read More

April 30, 2022

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