Film Reviews

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

‘The Northman’ review: Robert Eggers’ latest is an expertly crafted, brutal tale of Viking vengeance with a Shakespearian twist [Grade: B+]

A hoard of outcast Vikings pillages a small town towards the end of the first act of Robert Egger’s The… Read More

April 11, 2022

‘All the Old Knives’ review: Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton are double-crossing star-crossed lovers in potboiler that takes too long to heat up [Grade: B-]

Though the the political crime thriller genre may no longer be as booming as it was in the decade following… Read More

April 6, 2022

‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’ review: Takes a foothold on your heart and never lets go [Grade: A-] | SXSW

As time has gone on, and you grow up, one starts to notice that we live in a cynical, harsh… Read More

March 19, 2022

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