Cannes Review: Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘Lazzaro Felice’ is one of the fest’s best
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The first hour of Alice Rohrwacher’s third feature Lazzaro Felice (Happy as Lazzaro) are as languidly paced as a film could be.... Read More
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Cannes Review: ‘Girl,’ the deeply humane debut from Lukas Dhont
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Lara is 15 going on 16 trans girl with dreams of being a professional ballerina in Lukas Dhont’s touching and humane... Read More
Cannes Review: Gaya Jiji’s glacially paced tale of sexual repression ‘My Favorite Fabric’
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Gaya Jiji’s directorial debut MY FAVORITE FABRIC is an undercooked, lacking melodrama that takes points for being one of the rare... Read More
Cannes Review: Zhao Tao is a Best Actress Contender in ‘Ash is Purest White’ from Jia Zhang-ke
One of the most commercial and straightforward films of his career, Jia Zhang-ke’s ASH IS PUREST WHITE is accessible but not superficial, entertaining but never... Read More
Cannes Review: ‘Border,’ Ali Abbasi’s thrilling supernatural gothic romance
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Ali Abbasi creates the grimmest of faerie tales as two outcasts find love in a hopeless place in this wild, wonderful,... Read More
Cannes Review: Mads Mikkelsen burns up the screen in icy ‘Arctic’
Survival films can go either way: they can be engaging viewing experiences that expand their scope beyond their basic premise or can be slogs that... Read More
Cannes Review: Pawel Pawlikowski’s bleak and beautiful ‘Cold War’
Pawel Pawlikowski’s COLD WAR is one of those films that you can respect but not outright love. Beautifully made but far more slight and bleaker... Read More
Cannes Review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s arthouse crowdpleaser ‘Leto’
Kirill Serebrennikov’s LETO is a tribute to music, dreams of youth and the power – and beauty of ambition. Despite a masterful and at times... Read More
Cannes Review: A.B. Shawky’s gripping and emotional debut ‘Yomeddine’
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Rarely do debut features play in competition at Cannes. In fact, of the debut features that played in the festival’s most... Read More
Cannes Review: Wanuri Kahiu’s touching if familiar lesbian romance ‘Rafiki’
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Kena, short for Makena (played by Samantha Mugatsia) lives in the Slopes district of Nairobi, Kenya with her at-home mom and... Read More
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2024 North Texas Film Critics Association (NTFCA) Nominations 
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