Seen through a child’s eyes, the French Riviera suggests heaven on Earth. For the three at the heart of Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks—Geo (Kaylon Lancel), Manon (Lo...
In Everytime, a sun-dappled film about death and love that might be the best in Cannes this year, the terrible loss of a teenage girl’s life leaves her mot...
In the Grey, written and directed by Guy Ritchie, is a nifty bit of entertainment. Ninety minutes long before credits and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavil...
Almost ten years to the day since The Neon Demon’s premiere, Nicolas Winding Refn returns to Cannes with Her Private Hell—a film wherein the Internet’s it girl...
A soft upright piano playing “Amazing Grace” drapes in warmly over the opening image of Fjord: a powder-blue-hued glacial mountain towering over the gliste...
Garance (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is her name, and she’s proud of it: of being a feminist, a liberated woman, of having caring friends, loving family, and the most...
If Hollywood's animation offerings have been fairly stale of late, look no further than the independent-filmmaking side for one of the year's most inventive an...
One of the most pernicious tendencies in the way we talk about cinema is to reduce films to quantifiable objects—things that can be assessed in terms of ho...
In Ben’Imana, the perpetrators of a genocide are being put on public trial, but it just as often feels like the families of their victims are being forced ...
A (lonely) man meets a (beautiful) woman who would go on to change his life––a tale as old as time. Transformations, physical or psychological, are part and pa...
