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[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 ...

[Cannes Review] The Past

Should we forget the past in order to better our future? This existential question is at the core of The Past, Asghar Farhadi's follow-up film to the Oscar-winn...

[Review] Star Trek Into Darkness

There’s a moment early in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness that irrevocably moves this series away from the gentler humanist roots of its creator Gene Rodde...

[Review] State 194

I don’t generally keep up on current affairs because there’s just too much going on outside my comfy little bubble with no immediate concern to me. Yes, I’m one...