Pablo Larraín is gearing up for a major second half of 2021. At long last, his dance/relationship drama Ema will arrive next month (more on that later) and the...
Yet another Berlin 2020 title finally making its way to the world, Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) arrives with some lofty expectations—it is, after all, a Ja...
It is, knowing Bruno Dumont, almost certainly a joke to have the premiere French actress of our time play a crisis-stricken character named France, but I don't...
Some years since Cemetery of Splendour has Apichatpong Weerasethakul returned, this time under two unusual conditions: in English and with a movie star before ...
It was, of course, a shock to the cinematic system that Jean-Luc Godard—let's see... film's single most important living figure?—would retire after the complet...
Justin Kurzel doesn't make it easy. Notwithstanding the oddity that is his Assassin's Creed movie, the Australian auteur has distinct eyes for horrors—so we se...
Few films in Cannes, competition or otherwise, have us excited like Arnaud Desplechin's Deception, the director's adaptation of Philip Roth's erotic, dialogue-...
Annette has been birthed and, surprise of surprises, initial reaction to a Leos Carax-directed, Sparks-penned musical proves divisive. In any case, we (the bes...
Was Robert Downey Sr. the world's greatest director? A bold claim for anybody, a very bold claim when the director in question hadn't produced anything for dec...
Brief but stirring, vague if not for lack of worthwhile images, here's the first teaser for Ahed's Knee, the new film from Synonyms director Nadav Lapid. Littl...
After graduating from Hampshire College with a degree in music theory, Leonard Pearce turned his passions to film and writing. He lives in upstate NY with his wife Laura and cat Tardi.
