‘Iron Boy’ review: Sublime Hand-Painted Watercolors Animate Uplifting Family-Friendly Story Of Growing Pains [B+]
Adolescence is often an awkward culmination of internal and external forces coming to a head all while trying to maintain some semblance of dignity and... Read More
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‘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
‘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
‘Coward’ Review: Belgian Soldiers Find Love in Lukas Dhont’s Hidden Romance Masterpiece [A] Cannes
Lukas Dhont has a penchant for one-word titles: Girl, Close, Coward. On the surface, they’re almost aggressive in their curtness, rigid in their definition. But... Read More
‘Tangles’ Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Stars in Heartbreaking Yet Beautiful Animated Film Detailing Alzheimer’s with Humor and Pathos [A] Cannes
Leah Nelson’s latest animated film, Tangles, is an emotionally devastating tearjerker that studies the painful and troubling experience of a family dealing with Alzheimer’s. There... Read More
‘Hope’ Review: Na Hong-jin’s First Act Monster Mash is Overlong Schlockbuster Core [C-] Cannes
Simply the idea of coming to the Cannes Film Festival carries with it a slew of hopes and dreams, a true pinch me experience at... Read More
Palm Springs International Film Society (PSIFS) Announces Two Awards in Honor of Former Festival Chairman and Philantropist Harold Matzner 
Danny Boyle’s ‘Ink’ to Open 83rd Venice Film Festival 
Director Watch Ep. 163: ‘Oppenheimer’ (Christopher Nolan, 2023) 
2026 Toronto International Film Festival: New Films Starring Cate Blanchett, Mahershala Ali, Margaret Qualley, Naomi Watts Announced for TIFF51