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[Review] Chinese Puzzle

Lacking the hype of virtually every other film franchise releasing its latest installment this summer, Chinese Puzzle is the latest in Cédric Klapisch’s trilogy...

[Cannes Review] Mommy

Being the same age as Xavier Dolan (25), I can say that it is quite an impressive feat to already have four highly acclaimed features under your belt. And while...

[Cannes Review] Leviathan

If there is a very loose thread connecting contemporary Russian cinema to its artistic heritage, it is that its best filmmakers still exude a desire to produce ...

[Cannes Review] Clouds of Sils Maria

There are so many self-interpretations and meta moments in Clouds of Sils Maria, a puzzler that shows director Olivier Assayas evolving into a director of refin...

[Cannes Review] Hard to Be a God

“The artist is a canary in a mine shaft. If Brezhnev had read Rudyard Kipling, he would never have gone into Afghanistan.” Director Aleksei German said this to ...

[Review] X-Men: Days of Future Past

The world that opens X-Men: Days of Future Past is a dismal, barren wasteland, stacked tall with the bones and corpses of extinguished super-beings while chamel...

[Review] Blended

When an overused gag showed up for the third of about five times during Blended's runtime, the twenty-something college dude chowing down on his mall food court...

[Cannes Review] Goodbye to Language

Goodbye to Language, an essay work by Jean-Luc Godard, is not the kind of thing one can simply write about without weeks or months of contemplation. The head is...