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2025 Un Certain Regard Winners: ‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,’ ‘Urchin’ and More – Cannes

Erik Anderson May 23, 2025

The 1980s Chilean AIDS surrealist drama The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo has won the top award from the Un Certain Regard section of the... Read More

‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Spike Lee Reunites with Denzel Washington and Scores a Smash Hit with His Kurosawa Reinterpretation [B+] Cannes

Ryan McQuade May 23, 2025

“It’s a reinterpretation – not a remake!” This is what Spike Lee said back in September 2024 about his latest joint Highest 2 Lowest, inspired... Read More

‘It Was Just an Accident’ Review: Jafar Panahi Gives Human Answers to Complex Moral Conundrums [B] Cannes

Savina Petkova May 23, 2025

Each new film by Jafar Panahi feels like a blessing, especially since the Iranian filmmaker has been subject to prison, house arrests, travel and work... Read More

‘Resurrection’ Review: Let Bi Gans Be Bi Gans [A] Cannes

Martin Tsai May 23, 2025

Following the unexpected successes, both critical and commercial (in its native China at least), of 2018’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Bi Gan returns with... Read More

‘Sentimental Value’ Review: Joachim Trier Constructs a Searing, Tender Family Drama [A] Cannes

Sophia Ciminello May 23, 2025

Growing up in an old house means getting used to its little idiosyncrasies, just as you would with any other family member. It’s the one... Read More

‘Die My Love’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence is Grace Under Fire in the Best Performance of her Career [A] Cannes

Ryan McQuade May 23, 2025

From the opening frame of Lynne Ramsay’s fifth feature film, Die My Love, we see a house in shambles. A once promising place full of... Read More

‘Woman and Child’ Review: Saeed Roustaee’s Iranian Mother Melodrama Finds a Family Torn Part [A-] Cannes

Martin Tsai May 23, 2025

In spite of Iran’s excessively punitive stifling of artistic expression, its filmmakers continue to knock it out of the park even at the risk of... Read More

‘Alpha’ Review: Julia Ducournau’s AIDS Allegory Crumbles Under the Weight of its Repetitive Self-Importance [D-] Cannes

Ryan McQuade May 22, 2025

Four years ago, a tidal wave hit cinema with Julia Ducournau’s second feature film, Titane. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film... Read More

Director Watch Podcast Ep. 100 – ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’ (Peter Jackson, 2002)

Ryan McQuade May 22, 2025

Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More

Light the Fuse: Ranking the ‘Mission: Impossible’ Franchise

Ryan McQuade May 22, 2025

For nearly thirty years, audiences around the world have watched one man accept impossible missions while performing ridiculous stunts to save the world from a... Read More

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