Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. Wild Diamond opens in theaters on July 11.
From her debut feature, French fi...
The first words we hear in Brandon Kramer’s Holding Liat are spoken, over the phone, by a person named in the subtitles as "Israeli Army liaison." In this shor...
Book adaptations yield two kinds of films: those that transliterate and those that translate. While the former insist on keeping the source material's spir...
It’s common for a successful artist to be asked about advice they'd give their younger self; one film from this year’s Cannes Specials selection does the oppos...
Laura Wandel left a lasting impression with her debut feature Playground, a character study of a very young girl during her first school days, and was lauded f...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. April opens in theaters on April 25.
In this year’s diverse line-up of V...
Amongst the debut features populating Berlinale’s new section called Perspectives, none presented so admirably fresh take on fiction and political historie...
When reading Claude Lanzmann’s 2009 memoir The Patagonian Hare, director Guillaume Ribot was struck by insights into making the monumental Shoah. The book ...
If there is a filmmaker whose work can be described as "elemental cinema," that’s Lucile Hadžihalilović. It’s easy to chronicle her 2015 film Evolution as ...
Sam Riley stars as Tom, a washed-up tennis-pro-turned-coach at a luxury island hotel on the Canary Islands, in Islands, the English-language debut of A Coffee ...
