‘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
Film Reviews
‘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
‘Passenger’ Review: André Øvredal’s Van Life Haunted House Movie Does Exactly What You Expect and Maybe That’s All It Needs To Do [C+]
Sometimes it’s nice to show up at the cinema for a genre programmer that gives you exactly what you expect — a polished studio horror... 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
‘All of a Sudden’ Review: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto are Luminous in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Life-Affirming Wonder [A] Cannes
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
‘A Woman’s Life’ Review: Léa Drucker Elevates an Uneven Portrait of Female Exhaustion [C] Cannes
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
‘Fjord’ Review: Cristian Mungiu Takes On Religious and Progressive Extremism in Exceptional Family Drama [A] Cannes
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
‘Bitter Christmas’ Review: And Just Like That… Cannes Almodóvar Really Have it All? [B+] Cannes
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
‘La Mas Dulce’ Review: Laïla Marrakchi Gives Visibility to Morocco’s Invisible Workers [B] Cannes
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
‘Next Life’ Review: Emilia Clarke Navigates Parallel Lives and Sliding Doors in Drake Doremus’s Wishy-Washy Romance [C+] Tribeca Festival 
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