Cannes Film Festival

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

‘A Hero’ review – An effective albeit monotonous moral parable from Asghar Farhadi [Cannes Review]

Somewhere in Iran, there is a bus station; a social junction where everyday commuters meet for a moment of solace.… Read More

July 19, 2021

‘In Front of Your Face’ review: A competent but isolating drama about dread from Hong Sang-soo [Cannes Review]

It doesn’t become clear what In Front of Your Face is really about till pretty far in, though its sheer… Read More

July 17, 2021

‘Memoria’ review: Tilda Swinton investigates an eerie mystery in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s slow-burning epic [Cannes Review]

It starts with a bang. Not the metaphorical, head-first into action kind of bang — not that you would ever… Read More

July 16, 2021

‘Blue Bayou’ review: Justin Chon’s stunning portrait of immigration and what it means to be an “American” [Cannes Review]

What does it mean to be an American? The question reverberates throughout every frame of Blue Bayou, the new film… Read More

July 15, 2021

‘Red Rocket’ review: Simon Rex puts the come in comeback in Sean Baker’s nuanced Trump country exposé [Cannes Review]

Perhaps even more so than The Florida Project, Sean Baker’s financial and ideological investment in celluloid film pays off in… Read More

July 15, 2021

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