Locarno Review: The Plant from the Canaries is a Debut of Clarity, Wit, and Beauty

Never underestimate the critical desire to cite Éric Rohmer––spend enough days at a film festival and you’ll start noticing illusions to the director’s wor...

Suspended Time Review: Olivier Assayas Blends Passions and Personal History in Breezy Comedy

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Berlinale coverage. Suspended Time opens in theaters on August 15. The memes won't let yo...

Locarno Review: Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due Concludes Abdellatif Kechiche’s Alluring Saga

What is Mektoub, My Love about? Eight years since the first movie’s release––and after more than eight hours of Abdellatif Kechiche’s magnum opus––it’s sti...

Locarno Review: A Seance of Self and Film, Blue Heron is an Astonishing Debut

In Nine Behind, one of Sophy Romvari’s earliest shorts, a young woman is heard sobbing on the phone to her estranged grandfather: “I want to know my family...

By the Stream Review: Hong Sangsoo Excels in a More Narrative-Driven Mode 

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Locarno coverage. By the Stream opens in theaters on August 8, 2025. The death of the aut...

Toxic Review: Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno-Winning Drama Will Worm Its Way Inside You

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Riga coverage. Toxic is now streaming on MUBI. It’s a shame Toxic wasn’t around for the r...

2000 Meters to Andriivka Review: Ukrainian Documentary Captures Impossible Resilience in War

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. 2000 Meters to Andriivka opens in theaters on July 25. In 2000 Meters ...

Cloud Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Crafts a Dark Thriller with Satirical Edge

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. Cloud opens in theaters on July 18. Kiyoshi Kurosawa is having quite the...

Drowning Dry Review: An Unnerving, Cruelly Funny Lithuanian Drama

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Locarno coverage. Drowning Dry opens in theaters on July 18. Memories can be slippery thi...

Apocalypse in the Tropics Review: An Exposé of Brazil’s Politically Active Religious Right

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 NYFF coverage. Apocalypse in the Tropics is now in theaters and on Netflix. Five years, t...