cannes film festival reviews

Perhaps the defining paradox of visionary British film director David Lean’s life is the discordance between his professional…

Featuring powerfully atmospheric music and sound design, and a sense of tropical place so moistly palpable one might…

You can call French auteur Bruno Dumont many things: profound, pretentious, visionary, a master of rural poverty porn,…

Cristian Mungiu’s films invariably deal with social, cultural and moral divisions, uneasy truths, ethical dilemmas and unjust compromises.…

There’s a sly sight gag relatively early in Na Hong-jin’s blockbuster-in-the-making, Hope, in which the camera gazes over the…

Hirokazu Koreeda brings his customary warmth and generosity of spirit to the seemingly cold presence of GenAI in…

“Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.” It’s fitting…

Adapted from Jenny Erpenbeck’s acclaimed novel Heimsuchung and directed by legendary auteur Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum), Visitation…

With its stream-of-consciousness style and fragmented perspectives, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is a beguiling novel with understandably few…

Tackling a subject close to home for writer-director Marie Kreutzer, Gentle Monster examines the fallout when Philip Weiss…

Countless exceptional films have been made in which voyeurism — whether practiced by the protagonist or the audience…

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