‘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
Film Reviews
‘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
‘Garance’ Review: Jeanne Herry’s Underwhelming Alcoholic Actress Vehicle Deters the Turbulently Brilliant Adèle Exarchopoulos [C] Cannes
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
‘Full Phil’ Review: Kristen Stewart is in Peak Form in Quentin Dupieux’s Manic Father-Daughter Comedy [C+] Cannes
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
‘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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