Cannes Review: Ethan Coen’s formulaic ‘Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind’ doc plays more like a jukebox on repeat than an insightful look of one of rock ‘n roll’s most controversial icons [Grade: C-]
Last year, Joel Cohen graced us with his mesmerizing adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth to world-wide acclaim. Ethan Coen, however, opted for a... Read More
Film Reviews
Cannes Review: Park Chan-wook’s ‘Decision to Leave’ subverts and embraces its Hitchcockian nature with Tang Wei’s pitch-perfect femme fatale [Grade: A]
Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave plays like Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, albeit with a twist. It isn’t self-referential or reflexive at all to Hitchcock’s influence unlike... Read More
Cannes Review: Alex Garland’s thriller ‘Men’ makes its point with half-baked politics [Grade: B]
Men will make you want to rewatch Get Out. Alex Garland’s latest is every bit as frightening and graphic as we might’ve expected (and hoped).... Read More
Cannes Review: With ‘Crimes of the Future’, horror-master David Cronenberg entices your inhumanly appetite and gets under your skin [Grade: B]
With a star-studded cast and a sexy marketing campaign to precede it, Crimes of the Future promises an electrifying affair to be beholden, enjoyed, and... Read More
Cannes Review: ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ is a gentle feast about the endurance of love in all its forms from master George Miller [Grade: B+]
If, like me, news of a George Miller movie at Cannes piqued your appetite for another dripping hamburger in the vein of Mad Max: Fury... Read More
‘The Bob’s Burgers Movie’ review: The Emmy-winning show is a gag a minute blast, makes a triumphant leap to film [Grade: B+]
Like most television shows, it took Bob’s Burgers a few episodes to get cooking. Once it did, it became a huge critical hit, receiving Emmy... Read More
Cannes Review: ‘Corsage’ doesn’t reinvent the genre but Vicky Krieps leads Marie Kreutzer’s Austrian period drama with fragility and forte [Grade: B+]
For her fifth feature, Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer turns to the history books, and more specifically, to a female figure of the 19th century whose... Read More
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
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
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] 
With ‘Song Sung Blue,’ Craig Brewer Pays Tribute to Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman, Joy Amongst Sadness, and the Creation of Art [VIDEO INTERVIEW]