Cannes Film Festival

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

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

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

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