‘Iron Boy’ review: Sublime Hand-Painted Watercolors Animate Uplifting Family-Friendly Story Of Growing Pains [B+]
Adolescence is often an awkward culmination of internal and external forces coming to a head all while trying to maintain some semblance of dignity and... Read More
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‘La Gradiva’ Review: Marine Atlan’s Coming of Age Story Debut Erupts with Keen Observation [A]
Coming-of-age films often rely on a familiar promise: place a group of teenagers together, let their personalities collide, and watch adulthood slowly emerge from the... Read More
‘The Beloved’ Review: Javier Bardem Makes a Meal Out of Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Movie-Making Buffet [B]
In 1990, Francis Ford Coppola, seeking several reversals of fortune after years of critical and commercial struggles, directed The Godfather Part III, starring Al Pacino,... Read More
‘The Dreamed Adventure’ Review: Valeska Grisebach’s Observant Thriller Examines the Grey Zones of Morality [B+]
What is striking about The Dreamed Adventure is how quietly it unfolds at first. The film begins almost like a subdued thriller, a mysterious search... Read More
‘Minotaur’ Review: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Timeless, Domestic Epic is an Unflinching Look at Putin’s Russia [A] Cannes
The tales and lessons found within Greek mythology have struck a chord with audiences for centuries. The heroes and deities in these stories may not... Read More
‘Tangles’ Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Stars in Heartbreaking Yet Beautiful Animated Film Detailing Alzheimer’s with Humor and Pathos [A] Cannes
Leah Nelson’s latest animated film, Tangles, is an emotionally devastating tearjerker that studies the painful and troubling experience of a family dealing with Alzheimer’s. There... Read More
‘All of a Sudden’ Review: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto are Luminous in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Life-Affirming Wonder [A] Cannes
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
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
‘A Woman’s Life’ Review: Léa Drucker Elevates an Uneven Portrait of Female Exhaustion [C] Cannes
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
‘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
Film Independent to Honor Robbie Pickering, Alysa Nahmias, Harry Yoon with Changemaker Award at 23rd Artist Development Showcase 
46th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival: World Premieres, Bay Area Filmmakers, Rachel Bloom to Receive Freedom of Expression Award 
8th African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) TV Honors: ‘Paradise,’ ‘Love Story’ and ‘Spider-Noir’ Among Top Winners 
50th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Frameline50) Awards: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,’ ‘Leviticus’ and More