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...
Almost a decade since his debut feature The Here After premiered at Directors’ Fortnight, Swedish director Magnus von Horn is finally in Cannes Competition wit...
With Cannes Film Festival now officially underway and reviews coming in, we're also getting new looks at some of our most-anticipated premieres. The Invisible ...
Quentin Dupieux returns with The Second Act, a playfully dour satire on the film industry that sees the French absurdist delve further into the apocalyptic moo...
I'm possibly embargoed from speaking too much about Arnaud Desplechin's Spectateurs! / Filmlovers!, which debuts at the Cannes Film Festival on May 22, but suf...
What kind of things does an obsessive documentarian like to watch in their free time? It's a question I was curious to ask John Wilson, a filmmaker who––over t...
