‘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
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‘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
‘Club Kid’ Review: Jordan Firstman’s Gay Peter Pan Party Boy Tale Gets Raves Across the Board [A-] Cannes
You might have loved Jordan Firstman even before you knew it. Remember the ode to Laura Dern from the 2020 Spirit Awards sung by the... Read More
‘Paper Tiger’ Review: James Gray’s New York State of Mind Needs a Rewrite [C-] Cannes
During the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, the programmers of the two-week prestigious event scheduled two cinematic crime thrillers for screenings at the festival, with both... Read More
‘Sheep in a Box’ Review: Koreeda’s Take on the AI-ification of Humanity Feels a Bit Soulless [C] Cannes
Hirokazu Koreeda’s Cannes competition entry, Sheep in the Box — in which grieving parents adopt an A.I. replica of their dead child — invites inevitable... Read More
Fatherland Review: Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler are Sensational in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Transcendent Chamber Piece [A-] Cannes
In Thomas Mann’s final novel, “Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn, as Told by A Friend,” the Nobel Prize-winning writer repositions... Read More
‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’ Album Review: Olivia Rodrigo Makes the Poison Sound Like the Cure [A-] 
‘The Death of Robin Hood’ Review: Gritty Take on the Folk Legend Takes Rich Text and Makes it Poor [C-] 
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