‘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
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‘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
‘The Man I Love’ Review: Rami Malek Gives a Career Best Performance in Ira Sachs’s Ode to Art and Life in 1980s New York [A-] Cannes
André Brassard’s 1974 French Canadian film Il était une fois dans l’Est (Once Upon a Time in the East), a story of cabaret drag queens... Read More
‘Stray Embers’ Directors Erin Brethauer and Tim Hussin Look at California’s Deadliest Wildfire Through the Eyes of a Selfless Hero 
‘La Gradiva’ Review: Marine Atlan’s Coming of Age Story Debut Erupts with Keen Observation [A] 
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