Reviews

[Review] Populaire

Régis Roinsard’s Populaire is being marketed as a romantic comedy, and so it is, but it’s also a buddy comedy of sorts, featuring a girl and her trusty typewrit...

[Review] Black Rock

There’s so much promising talent behind the new thriller Black Rock, that it’s initially disappointing when director Katie Aselton and scribe Mark Duplass revea...

[Cannes Review] Like Father, Like Son

Few filmmakers can be said to have the same propensity for child actors as Hirokazu Koreeda. In 2004 he made Nobody Knows with an almost entirely adolescent cas...

[Review] Fast & Furious 6

After a decade of high-octane car porn, it seemed like it was time to put the parking brake on the Fast and the Furious franchise following the lackluster fourt...

[Cannes Review] The Dance of Reality

One of the most revered surreal and abstract filmmakers ever to grace the cinematic landscape, Alejandro Jodorowsky holds a deserved cult status. He is most fam...

[Cannes Review] Inside Llewyn Davis

There are few filmmakers as reputable and well respected as Joel and Ethan Coen, and aside from a few exceptions (The Ladykillers, Burn After Reading) they cons...

[Cannes Review] Young & Beautiful

Jeune & Jolie (Young & Beautiful) paints the portrait of a young French girl's journey of sexual awakening and experimentation that is at times reminisc...

[Cannes Review] Jimmy P.

In Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, the French director makes his second leap toward the English-language realm (following Esther...

[Cannes Review] The Congress

Trippy, bizarre, surreal and hallucinatory are all excellent adjectives with which to describe Ari Folman's The Congress. Adapted from a novel by legendary sci-...

[Review] Pieta

Kim Ki-Duk’s Pietà may draw its title from a famous Michelangelo sculpture depicting the Virgin Mary embracing the body of Jesus Christ, but the movie itself ...