Oh, to be one of the chosen. I guarantee this thought washes over every single person attending the Cannes Film Festival, at least at some point. It is a reali...
There’s a lot to look forward to in what has been branded a Mexican comedy-thriller musical from the Palme d’Or winner that brought us Dheepan, A Prophet, Rust...
This one is for the true Lanthimites, the Dogtooth sisters, the biscuit women, The Killing of a Sacred Deer heads, a film to which the callbacks are so abundan...
If the perfect sports movie illuminates the fundamentals that make one fall in love with the game, there may be no better movie about baseball than Carson Lund...
The cinema of Paul Schrader has always felt like a confessional, all those dark rooms and troubled men, the registered Swiftie's own tortured poets department....
Writing on Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island in 2010, Anthony Lane whipped a quote from Umberto Eco: "Two cliches make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, b...
If you dove head first into Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, you would get a concussion. The filmmaker’s supposed opus––a glitzy, gargantuan, long-gestating...
This year's Cannes competition began with a film set in a working-class environment where a young woman with a single mother dreamed of escaping it all through...
The best festivals point to the future, capture the zeitgeist, or honor the past. At Locarno in 2015, you could have had all three: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Happy H...
Almost nine years to the day since Mad Max: Fury Road premiered in Cannes, George Miller returns to the Croisette with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. It's a deafenin...
