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[Review] The Idol

Take your pick in categorizing The Idol: either “based on a true story” or “inspired by true events," perhaps the binary being alluded to of prose versus poetry...

[Review] Approaching the Unknown

While the mission is one thing, your reason for performing it could be drastically different. For Captain William Stanaforth (Mark Strong) the two barely overla...

[Cannes Review] Endless Poetry

Three years ago, Alejandro Jodorowsky returned to filmmaking for the first time since 1990 with his sumptuous autobiographic epic The Dance of Reality. Now the ...

[Review] Alice Through the Looking Glass

The central plot mechanism of Alice Through the Looking Glass is an actual mechanism, a doodad of whirling steampunk metal and glowy CGI called the Chronosphere...

[Review] Presenting Princess Shaw

Even though Presenting Princess Shaw isn't a film about filmmaking, you can't help wondering about the logistics of its creation considering director Ido Haar i...

[Cannes Review] The Wailing

Since the early aughts, South Korea has been one of the most prolific and exciting exporters of genre cinema, giving us such indelible gems as Oldboy, The Host,...

[Cannes Review] Mimosas

A "religious western" is how Moroccan-based Spanish director Oliver Laxe describes his second film, Mimosas, winner of the top prize at Cannes' Critics’ Week. I...

[Cannes Review] Dog Eat Dog

Paul Schrader might want to consider expanding his thematic scope a little. Decade after decade, film after film, regardless of whether he’s been writing script...