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
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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
‘The Northman’ review: Robert Eggers’ latest is an expertly crafted, brutal tale of Viking vengeance with a Shakespearian twist [Grade: B+]
A hoard of outcast Vikings pillages a small town towards the end of the first act of Robert Egger’s The Northman. We see their blood... Read More
‘All the Old Knives’ review: Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton are double-crossing star-crossed lovers in potboiler that takes too long to heat up [Grade: B-]
Though the the political crime thriller genre may no longer be as booming as it was in the decade following 9/11, the world of international... Read More
‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’ review: Takes a foothold on your heart and never lets go [Grade: A-] | SXSW
As time has gone on, and you grow up, one starts to notice that we live in a cynical, harsh world lacking the impulse to... Read More
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