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[Cannes Review] Graduation

Considering the heights he’s reached in the past, Graduation constitutes a disappointing step backwards for erstwhile Romanian New Wave front-runner Cristian Mu...

[Cannes Review] The Salesman

Excessively schematic plotting is a recurring weakness of writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s work. Films like About Elly and The Past suffered from contrived narr...

[Cannes Review] Elle

It takes all of zero seconds for the first rape to occur in Paul Verhoeven’s Elle. The film opens on a black screen and to the sounds of breaking glass and stif...

[Review] Pervert Park

There are few conversational taboos more likely to cause arguments than sex offenders. For some, the mere mention of their existence is enough to make blood bo...

[Cannes Review] After the Storm

Can our children pick and choose the personality traits they inherit, or are they doomed to obtain our lesser qualities? These are the hard questions being medi...

[Cannes Review] Risk

Laura Poitras’ greatest strength as a documentarian is winning the trust of high-profile individuals and getting them to appear in front of her camera. In her r...

[Cannes Review] The Last Face

There is a moment in Sean Penn’s new film -- for some reason screening this week in competition in Cannes -- when, having navigated the safe passage of a group ...

[Cannes Review] The Neon Demon

The problem in trying to critically assess Nicolas Winding Refn’s putrid atrocity of a film The Neon Demon is that regardless how much outrage is thrown at it, ...