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Director Watch Podcast Ep. 155 – ‘Batman Begins’ (Christopher Nolan, 2005) with Special Guest Bob Goochman

Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter May 21, 2026

On episode 155 of the Director Watch Podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter are joined by podcaster, film critic Bob Goochman discuss the next... Read More

‘Hope’ Review: Na Hong-jin’s First Act Monster Mash is Overlong Schlockbuster Core [C-] Cannes

Nick Ruhrkraut May 21, 2026

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

‘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

Erik Anderson May 20, 2026

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

Sophia Ciminello May 20, 2026

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

Cannes 2026: ‘La Gradiva’ Wins Top Critics Week Prize

Erik Anderson May 20, 2026

Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva has won the top award at the 65th edition of Critics Week, the Ami Paris Grand Prize, while Aina Clotet’s Viva (Alive)... Read More

Interview: Jen Malone on Crafting the Heartbreaking Soundtrack of ‘Love Story,’ and the Power of Music

Interviews (TV)

Interview: Jen Malone on Crafting the Heartbreaking Soundtrack of ‘Love Story,’ and the Power of Music

Landon Johnson May 20, 2026

Few television soundtracks in recent memory have captured audiences quite like Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette. Packed with iconic ’90s artists ranging... Read More

‘A Woman’s Life’ Review: Léa Drucker Elevates an Uneven Portrait of Female Exhaustion [C] Cannes

Mia Pflüger May 20, 2026

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

Ryan McQuade May 20, 2026

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

Martin Tsai May 19, 2026

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

Erik Anderson May 19, 2026

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

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