Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Review: A Web of Formal Inventiveness and Narrative Exhaustion
So it’s come to this: Spider-Man 10, technically. The future prophesied by many Hollywood alarmists, but now with more madness in the multi...
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Falcon Lake Review: Charlotte Le Bon’s Directorial Debut Grounds First Love in Gothic Horror
Every cinematic cabin in the woods suggests a place out of time. If you believe the movies, they’re either a) a dread-inducing home to all ...
Cannes Review: Cobweb is a Dextrous but Overdrawn Meta-Filmmaking Exercise from Kim Jee-woon
With Cobweb, South Korean genre stalwart Kim Jee-woon falls back on that old piece of received wisdom: “movie people, ain’t they crazy?” Wh...
Cannes Review: Bertrand Mandico’s Conann Turns Barbarism into Pure Love
Following The Wild Boys and After Blue, Conann marks the third feature-length project from prolific shorts filmmaker Bertrand Mandico. Many...
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Cannes Review: Bertrand Mandico’s Conann Turns Barbarism into Pure Love
Following The Wild Boys and After Blue, Conann marks the third feature-length project from prolific shorts filmmaker Bertrand Mandico. Many are still not convi...
Martin Scorsese Is “About to Start Making” a New Film Concerning Jesus
Killers of the Flower Moon's corpse isn't even cold––can I continue torturing this metaphor? it's a holiday and I shouldn't even be working––but Martin Scorses...
Watch: Sofia Coppola Directs Keanu Reeves in 100th Anniversary Celebration of Suntory Whisky
While Sofia Coppola is in the editing room ahead of a fall release of her Priscilla Presley drama, she's found time to complete her first book and, as recently...
Cannes Review: Perfect Days is Wim Wenders’ Strongest Fiction Feature in 20 Years
Wim Wenders is back, and he’s brought Lou Reed (still dead) with him. It’s not that Wenders hasn’t been making films. He has. It’s just that the only good ones...
Anatomy of a Fall Leads 2023 Cannes Film Festival Winners
The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival came to an end today at the awards ceremony, featuring prizes handed out by jury president Ruben Östlund and membe...
Cannes Review: About Dry Grasses is a Luminous Summation of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Soul-Stirring Cinema
The pastures in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s luminous new film are only dry at the very end. Save for that brief summery coda, the landscape in About Dry Grasses remain...
Cannes Review: Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand Sets Alicia Vikander and Jude Law in Engrossing Tudor Thriller
Few would have imagined that Brazilian-Algerian director Karim Aïnouz––whose The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão won the top prize in Un Certain Regard four ...
Cannes Review: The Settlers is a Haunting Chilean Western Reckoning with the Bloody Sins of Colonialism
The barbaric, bloody sins of the past come to define what entities govern certain land today, carried out by conquistadors and colonizers who hide behind right...
What Would an Alfred Hitchcock Script Directed by Martin Scorsese Look Like?
With Martin Scorsese on the mind following the triumphant Cannes premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon, I've been looking to catch up on the last few unseen f...
Cannes Review: Jessica Hausner’s Cynical Drama Club Zero Leaves a Bad Taste in the Mouth
In Club Zero, the students of a radical nutrition class are taught the benefits of eating consciously––if they choose to eat at all. It's the latest film from ...