“Man is a wolf to his fellow man," quotes a character early in Sergei Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature. The ordeal suffered by its protagonist will indeed be solita...
Hindsight is a marvelous thing. To quote the lead character of a recent Hong Sang-soo film (and by recent we mean Claire’s Camera, the second of three the proli...
Laurent Cantet has been a bit absent in the international cinema scene ever since winning the Palme d'Or for 2008's The Class. It's not for a lack of trying, of...
Cannon fire rumbles menacingly in the distance, but it’s human desire that might prove to be the greater threat after all in The Beguiled. Set to the backdrop o...
There's more to The Women's Balcony than the American marketing machine has thus far presented. Billed as a feel good comedy of communal spirit — and correctly ...
Blame it on 21 Jump Street. In 2012, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller rebooted a silly, cult television series with a clever wink. It was a hit that spawned a h...
Michel Franco has built a reputation as an actor's director, with his films featuring no shortage of unforgettable lead performances. Tim Roth's creepy leading ...
Cinema lost one of its pre-eminent pioneers when Abbas Kiarostami died on July 4, 2016. Over the course of his 46-year filmmaking career, the Iranian master nev...
Director Jonas Carpignano returns with his first film since Mediterranea (which broke out from Cannes Critics' Week sidebar two years ago) to remind us that alp...
It's more Pastiche du Godard than Histoire(s) du Godard in Michel Hazanavicius’ Godard Mon Amour and that’s not a bad thing. The director’s slight but surprisin...
