cannes film festival

Cannes Review: Paul Mescal plays a troubled father in Charlotte Wells’ delicately stunning debut, ‘Aftersun’ [Grade A-]

What can we do with our fickle memories of childhood, especially the ones painting our parents with idealistic brush strokes,… Read More

May 28, 2022

Cannes Review: Lukas Dhont’s ‘Close’ is a delicate coming of age tale with a miraculous debut performance from Eden Dambrine [Grade: A]

Lukas Dhont's sophomore feature, Close, is a remarkably well-directed film about childhood grief in a time maybe of its greatest… Read More

May 27, 2022

Cannes Review: Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn set their love ablaze in Claire Denis’ steamy Nicaragua-set romance ‘Stars at Noon’ [Grade: A]

Trish (Margaret Qualley) is a journalist whose press card is being revoked and her stay in Nicaragua compromised, and her… Read More

May 27, 2022

Cannes Review: ‘Elvis’ is a terrible yet wildly entertaining biopic featuring a brilliant titular performance by Austin Butler [Grade: C+]

A fiercely conventional biopic with all the musical analysis of a Spotify playlist, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is, more often than… Read More

May 26, 2022

Cannes Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘Broker’ is a tender story of chosen families led by a beguiling performance from Lee Ji-eun [Grade: A+]

Cannes favourite Hirokazu Kore-eda, who won the 2018 Palme d’Or for Shoplifters, has returned to the Cote d’Azur-set film festival… Read More

May 26, 2022

Cannes Review: Mark Jenkin’s Cornish thriller ‘Enys Men’ is an unnerving, off-beat experimental horror unlike any other [Grade: B+]

Born and raised in Cornwall, England, writer-director Mark Jenkin continues to draw on his local, beloved surroundings with his sophomore… Read More

May 26, 2022

Cannes Review: Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s English-language debut ‘The Silent Twins’ is a bewitching ode to female kinship [Grade: A+]

Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczyńska returns to Cannes four years after her Fugue premiered in Semaine de la Critique (aka Critics… Read More

May 25, 2022

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… Read More

May 24, 2022

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… Read More

May 24, 2022

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