‘Pillion’ Review: Harry Melling & Alexander Skarsgård Find Unexpected Feeling In The Role Play [Cannes]
CANNES – Let me be the first, perhaps second, possibly third critic to refer to Harry Lighton’s directorial debut, “Pillion,”...
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‘Bono: Stories Of Surrender’ Review: Andrew Dominik’s Fan-Friendly Concert Film Puts The U2 Singer In The Spotlight [Cannes]
CANNES – In the opening moments of “Bono: Stories of Surrender,” filmmaker Andrew Dominik’s black and white concert film about...
‘The Chronology Of Water’ Review: Kristen Stewart’s Long-Gestating Directorial Debut Is A Stylish Triumph [Cannes]
Taking a big creative swing as a public figure whose personal and professional life has been minutely scrutinized since childhood...
‘Mirrors No.3’ Review: Christian Petzold’s First Film In Cannes Is Exquisitely Realized But Strangely Predictable [Cannes]
Self-consciously drawing attention to their own workings, the films of German director Christian Petzold have always displayed a degree of...
‘The Little Sister’ Review: A French Arab Queer Woman Tries To Find Herself [Cannes]
CANNES – There has to be something quietly reassuring about the world that a movie about a first-generation French Algerian...
‘La Ola’ Review: Sebastián Lelio’s Audacious Fourth Wall-Breaking Musical Mostly Hits All the Right Notes [Cannes]
CANNES – A musical inspired by the 2018 feminist protests in Chile that included many students, Sebastián Lelio’s fascinating and...
‘Eddington’ Review: Ari Aster’s Acerbically Hilarious Pandemic Film Is Bracingly Political [Cannes]
Writer/director Ari Aster has now spent his last two films explaining himself. One of the most divisive sequences in “Beau...
‘Two Prosecutors’ Review: Sergey Loznitsa’s Totalitarian History Lesson Simmers In Hard Truths [Cannes]
CANNES – Citizens arrested without justifiable cause. Enemies of the state are imprisoned with no chance of due process. An...
‘Arco’ Review: Ugo Bienvenu Animates An Inspired Vision Of The Future [Cannes]
CANNES – Unless you’re well-versed in French-language graphic novels, you may not know the name Ugo Bienvenu, but if you...
‘The Plague’ Review: Charlie Polinger’s Stylish, Bombastic Debut Feature With Joel Edgerton Has Little Emotion Under The Surface [Cannes]
While ostensibly adopting the perspective of a kind and sensitive 12-year-old boy going through the wringer at the hands of...
