Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Berlinale coverage. Invention opens in theaters on April 18.
Grieving comes in many guise...
In a back room of a Luxembourg Hotel, Tim Roth sips a coffee, leans back, and asks me what else I've got. We’ve only been talking for ten minutes, but somethin...
The drive from Thessaloniki's airport into the city begins like any other: car dealerships and furniture stores that give way to bustling street life. Home to ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. Grand Tour opens in theaters on March 28 from MUBI.
If Chris Marker and ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2023 IFFR coverage. The Heirloom is now in theaters from Factory 25.
In The Heirloom, a couple fac...
It’s mid-July and I’m sitting in my living room, wondering what Ben Burtt, the sound designer behind some of the most beloved cultural artefacts of the 20th ce...
Few things loosen the grip of winter like a sun-kissed film. Add listless days and young love to the narrative and you might even forget the icy chill outside....
It's hard to say what's more endearing about Takashi Miike these days: that the director of Audition and Ichi The Killer is still out there producing work at t...
In Savanna and the Mountain, the real villagers of Covas do Barroso in Northern Portugal do battle with Savannah Resources, a real British company looking to t...
If you played Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari at 20-times speed it would be like watching complex organisms dissolve into blunter forms of matter. As it moves glaci...
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.