There’s a moment early in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s wondrous new film, All of a Sudden, where the camera focuses on an old photo of a woman... Read More
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With A Woman’s Life, director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet is less interested in telling a conventional midlife crisis story than in portraying a constant state of emotional... Read More
For many in America, there has been a shift over the course of the last decade, where educators have become less open to teach things... Read More
Pedro Almodóvar has long treated autobiography less as confession than as a hall of mirrors: memory filtered through melodrama, desire displaced by performance, private wounds... Read More
There are films that arrive carrying the weight of a social issue, and there are films that discover cinema within that issue. Laïla Marrakchi’s La... Read More
Let’s talk about Adèle Exarchopoulos. The French actress radiates gruff, battle-worn elegance which often conceals a bleeding vulnerability until the moment arises where she can... Read More
‘Clarissa’ Review: Sophie Okonedo Gets the Flowers Herself in Modern Day ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ [B+] Cannes
‘Clarissa’ Review: Sophie Okonedo Gets the Flowers Herself in Modern Day ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ [B+] Cannes
In Clarissa, a group of friends are sitting for lunch at a vacation home in Abraka, Nigeria when their topic of conversation shifts to politics.... Read More
Right from the start, Full Phil appears to be a movie that splits itself in two. One version is an unnerving father-daughter reunion unfolding inside... Read More
You might have loved Jordan Firstman even before you knew it. Remember the ode to Laura Dern from the 2020 Spirit Awards sung by the... Read More
During the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, the programmers of the two-week prestigious event scheduled two cinematic crime thrillers for screenings at the festival, with both... Read More

‘All of a Sudden’ Review: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto are Luminous in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Life-Affirming Wonder [A] Cannes
‘A Woman’s Life’ Review: Léa Drucker Elevates an Uneven Portrait of Female Exhaustion [C] Cannes
‘Fjord’ Review: Cristian Mungiu Takes On Religious and Progressive Extremism in Exceptional Family Drama [A] Cannes
‘Bitter Christmas’ Review: And Just Like That… Cannes Almodóvar Really Have it All? [B+] Cannes
‘La Mas Dulce’ Review: Laïla Marrakchi Gives Visibility to Morocco’s Invisible Workers [B] Cannes
‘Garance’ Review: Jeanne Herry’s Underwhelming Alcoholic Actress Vehicle Deters the Turbulently Brilliant Adèle Exarchopoulos [C] Cannes
‘Full Phil’ Review: Kristen Stewart is in Peak Form in Quentin Dupieux’s Manic Father-Daughter Comedy [C+] Cannes
‘Club Kid’ Review: Jordan Firstman’s Gay Peter Pan Party Boy Tale Gets Raves Across the Board [A-] Cannes
‘Paper Tiger’ Review: James Gray’s New York State of Mind Needs a Rewrite [C-] Cannes
‘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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