Cannes

[Cannes Review] Paterson

In his Village Voice review of Jim Jarmusch’s criminally under-appreciated The Limits of Control, J. Hoberman described the director as “a full-blown talent er...

[Cannes Review] Neruda

Pablo Larraín is not finished wrestling with his nation’s psyche. His first three films, Tony Manero, Post Mortem, and No, formed a loose triptych that confront...

[Cannes Review] Loving

Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton deliver remarkably nuanced performances in Loving, a late-'50s- / early-‘60s-set true life story of a mixed-race couple whose illeg...

[Cannes Review] After Love

In the past, the Belgian director Joachim Lafosse made a film about a mother seeking escape from domestic hell by killing her four young children (Our Children)...

[Cannes Review] Toni Erdmann

Maren Ade has kept us waiting. It’s been seven years since her superb second feature Everyone Else premiered at the Berlinale, taking home the Jury Prize, and s...

[Cannes Review] From the Land of the Moon

We haven’t even reached the midway point of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, but it’s probably safe to assume that Nicole Garcia’s From the Land of the Moon wi...

[Cannes Review] American Honey

European directors have often faltered when crossing the Atlantic. Billy Wilder and Wim Wenders found things to say where Paolo Sorrentino could not. American H...

[Cannes Review] The BFG

CGI loses the day in Steven Spielberg’s The BFG, a partly motion-captured, eco-minded adaptation of Roald Dahl’s adored children’s book that leans so heavily on...