Review: ‘Booksmart’ is one of the year’s best films
Just when you think you didn’t need another ‘last night of high school before graduation’ movie, Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart comes along and bursts through as... Read More
Film Reviews
Cannes Review: ‘Atlantics’ (Atlantique) is beautiful, painful and poetic
Mati Diop’s film, the first in competition feature for a black woman at Cannes, is as poetic as it is urgent Few films possess this... Read More
Cannes Review: ‘And Then We Danced’ is a brave, urgent and revolutionary statement
Director Levan Akin confronts Georgia’s (former USSR/Eastern Europe) conservative, moralising, antiquated attitude towards sexual freedom, the masculine tradition and gay love with an aggressive fervour.... Read More
Cannes Review: ‘Rocketman’
Dexter Fletcher’s Elton John biopic is an entertaining if imperfect film with a fantastic performance from Taron Egerton Certain to draw comparisons to worldwide box... Read More
Cannes Review take two: ‘Les Misérables’ is “one of the most timely and urgent films of the year”
Ladj Ly’s debut feature is a stunning, explosive film that is both fresh and arresting Debut films selected in competition at Cannes are rare –... Read More
Cannes Review: ‘Bull’ has good intentions but feels all too familiar
First time feature director Annie Silverstein new film Bull, will leave you with thoughts you can’t process right away. Silverstein co-wrote the script with Johnny... Read More
Review: ‘Her Smell’ is a postmodern masterpiece with an indelible performance by Elisabeth Moss
Alex Ross Perry makes films that linger with you long after they’ve ended. Whether it be his quasi-Pynchon adaptation Impolex, the gloriously minimalistic The Color Wheel,... Read More
Ladj Ly’s supremely confident debut feature recalls the bitingly fierce critical voice of Victor Hugo’s classic novel, transplanting it into the estates and housing blocks... Read More
Cannes Review: ‘Bacurau’
For Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho, Bacurau is a step down from Filho’s masterful Aquarius and a middling political epic that doesn’t fully land.... Read More
Cannes Review take 2: ‘The Dead Don’t Die’
Jim Jarmusch’s most commercial film to date marks a departure for the director but also doesn’t offer a memorable viewing experience. Some directors like to... Read More
Interview: Production Designer Jack Fisk on Recreating 1950s New York and Building a Ping Pong Playground in ‘Marty Supreme’ 
Interview: Cinematographer Darius Khondji on Shooting on Film and Finding the Light and the Darkness of ‘Marty Supreme’ 
Writer/Director Charlie Polinger Tackles Teenage Boy Body Horror in his Debut Feature ‘The Plague’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW] 
‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: Amanda Seyfried is Mother (Ann) in Mona Fastvold’s Miraculous Musical Drama [A]