AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 288 – 2025 Cannes: The Winners, the Losers, the Coughing
The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has ended but not without a few bumps along the way, including a full city power outage... Read More
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‘Young Mothers’ Review: The Dardennes Mine Emotional Trauma and Resilience of Teen Motherhood [B-] Cannes
Belgian brothers in both blood and cinema, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have long been masters of portraying the gritty realities of working-class life in their... Read More
‘The Mastermind’ Review: Josh O’Connor is Caught Stealing in Kelly Reichardt’s Vietnam Era Portrait of an Art Thief [A-] Cannes
Early in Kelly Reichardt’s new anti-heist film, The Mastermind, J.B. Mooney (Josh O’Connor) stops in front of a security guard on his way out of... Read More
2025 Cannes Film Festival Reviews: ‘The Secret Agent,’ ‘My Father’s Shadow,’ ‘The Plague,’ ‘Splitsville,’ ‘Arco’
The Cannes Film Festival can present a variety of options for cinephiles to consume over the course of the close to two-week event. Within an... Read More
‘Dangerous Animals’ Review: Jai Courtney Chews More Scenery Than His Shark Co-Stars [B] Cannes
Steven Spielberg’s Jaws turns 50 years old on June 20th and its cinematic significance can’t be understated. Its colossal financial success gave birth to the... Read More
2025 Cannes Film Festival Winners: I Saw the NEON Glow
Jafar Panahi has won the Palme d’Or of the 78th Cannes Film Festival for his politically and personally inspired film It Was Just an Accident,... Read More
‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Spike Lee Reunites with Denzel Washington and Scores a Smash Hit with His Kurosawa Reinterpretation [B+] Cannes
“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
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
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
‘Die My Love’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence is Grace Under Fire in the Best Performance of her Career [A] Cannes
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
‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Review: I Saw the Twin Peaks Glow [A-] Cannes 
Interview: Richard Gadd Talks ‘Half Man,’ Finding the Humor in Trauma, and That Hospital Scene with Jaime Bell 
‘Nagi Notes’ Review: Kôji Fukada’s Gentle Examination of Intimate, Small Town Relationships Pays Off for Those with Patience [A-] Cannes 
50th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Frameline50) Lineup: John Early’s ‘Maddie’s Secret,’ Gregg Araki’s ‘I Want Your Sex’ and More