Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 29.
The new documentary With Hasan in Ga...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 29.
Just three years since earning a speci...
For some, a new Valeska Grisebach film is the kind of thing to be discussed in hushed tones. This year, she made her long-awaited return to Cannes, a full ...
From A Star is Born to Vox Lux to Inside Llewyn Davis, cinema abounds with stories of jaded musicians who either burned too bright or never quite reached the h...
In Ira Sachs’ last film, Peter Hujar’s Day, the director used a rigorous framing device––a purposefully banal interview that took place in 1974 between the epo...
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...
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...
It might not have the fervent awards chatter that’s followed Sandra Hüller’s current run of form, but for the London-born actress Sophie Okonedo, 2026 is alrea...
With the halfway point of this year’s Cannes Film Festival fast approaching, one of the best movies I’ve seen is a Chilean chiller called The Meltdown. It'...
It’s never wise to assume anything. Promotional materials doing the rounds before Club Kid's raucous Cannes premiere this week suggested a New York downtow...
Irish-born, Berlin-based, Rory O'Connor has been covering the European film festival circuit since 2012. A regular contributor to The Film Stage, his work has also appeared in Frieze, The Playlist, and CineVue.