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[Cannes Review] Carol

To be an actress and land a leading role in a Todd Haynes film must be a dream come true. With Safe, Far From Heaven, and his five-part miniseries Mildred Pierc...

[Cannes Review] Sweet Bean

Festival programming is more often than not fraught with ulterior considerations. Which is why so much is being read into symbolic placements such as the openin...

[Cannes Review] Son of Saul

László Nemes' prodigious debut feature, Son of Saul, inhabits what Primo Levi called “The Gray Zone” in his essay of the same name: the reality of the Sonderkom...

[Cannes Review] Irrational Man

With the recent Cate Blanchett-led tour de force that is Blue Jasmine and the delightful Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen has proven he still has the ability to p...

[Cannes Review] The Sea of Trees

In the largely wordless opening of Gus Van Sant’s The Sea of Trees, a man (Matthew McConaughey) drives to the airport and leaves his car in the parking lot with...

[Review] Dark Star: H. R. Giger’s World

"This is the oldest skull I have," says Hans Rudolph "Hansruedi" Giger, displaying his macabre prize as the Oscar he won for Alien sits off-camera, collecting d...

[Cannes Review] The Lobster

The eminently idiosyncratic films of Yorgos Lanthimos revile the societal constructs that stifle and pervert human interaction. In laying bare these structures’...

[Montclair Review] Welcome to Leith

In what could also be described as a horror film, Welcome to Leith is a truly terrifying portrait of a small town of 24 residents that one day receives an unwel...