Cannes Review: Ali Abbasi returns to Cannes with the terrifying Persian noir ‘Holy Spider’ [Grade: B+]
Four years after Border won the top prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard strand, Iranian-born filmmaker Ali Abbasi sparked a lively debate with his new... Read More
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Cannes Review: In Ruben Östlund’s zany ‘Triangle of Sadness,’ yachts rock (and roll) as the allure of luxury exposes the underbelly of a classless utopia [Grade: A]
A big part of what makes a good satire vital, is the pledge of taking things seriously. Swedish director Ruben Östlund certainly lives by this... Read More
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 about his wife, Antonina Miliukova.... Read More
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 understand.” One way or another,... Read More
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 of Z) may, with the... Read More
‘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 of art is “skill.” Though... Read More
‘The Valet’ review: Eugenio Derbez charms in French farce remake but attempts to take on deep topics get stuck in first gear [Grade: B-]
There is a lot of discourse around foreign language films being remade for English-speaking audiences. While sometimes it feels completely unnecessary, there are times when... Read More
‘Operation Mincemeat’ review: A surprisingly light British war drama illuminates a story too fantastical to be fiction [Grade: B]
Wars have always been full of stories that are so fantastical, they can only be true. The real story behind Netflix’s new war drama Operation... Read More
Review: ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ brings Sam Raimi’s deliciously twisted sensibilities to the MCU, Elizabeth Olsen is film’s MVP [Grade: B+]
Hot off the combined success of Avengers: Endgame, WandaVision, and What If? Marvel certainly had no shortage of characters to draw from for its next... Read More
Review: ‘Firebird’ reaches for the sky but fizzles out with familiarity [Grade: B-]
More romance and less thriller, Firebird is packed with brilliant performances, but the lack of audacious choices and the very normalization of queerness knocks this... Read More
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