‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ Review: Céline Sciamma Unveils a Painterly Masterpiece — Cannes
Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel star as a painter and her subject in Céline Sciamma’s devastatingly unforgettable story of love and memory.
Reviews
‘A Hidden Life’ Review: Terrence Malick’s Best Movie Since ‘The Tree of Life’ — Cannes
After seven long years of wandering in the desert, Terrence Malick returns with a shatteringly powerful story of faith in crisis.
Gaspar Noe’s Psychedelic Mockumentary ‘Lux Æterna’ Might Give You Seizures — Cannes Review
The “Climax” director takes an Yves Saint Laurent assignment and transforms it into a disorienting riff on the filmmaking process.
‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe Are Nautical Madmen in Gripping Psychodrama
Cannes: Robert Eggers follows up “The Witch” with the best movie about bad roommates ever made.
‘Zombi Child’ Review: Bertrand Bonello Proves that the Past Is Undead — Cannes
There’ve been a lot of movies about Voodoo culture and its colonialist history, but only Bertrand Bonello’s includes a speech about Rihanna.
‘The Whistlers’ Review: A Delightful Romanian Twist on ‘Ocean’s 11’ — Cannes
Corneliu Porumboiu’s enjoyable riff on the heist movie tradition has a unique hook, and is begging for an English language remake.
‘The Best Years of a Life’ Review: A Corny Sequel to ‘A Man and a Woman’ — Cannes
Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée reprise their roles in a touching nod to the Oscar-winning love story, but nostalgia overtakes their chemistry.
‘The Wild Goose Lake’ Review: Diao Yinan Delivers a Ravishing but Unfocused Chinese Noir
Diao Yinan’s latest noir contains enough flashes of brilliance to certify him as a major filmmaker, but it’s no “Black Coal, Thin Ice.”
Martin Scorsese-Produced Trans Drama ‘Port Authority’ Is Quietly Progressive — Cannes Review
Danielle Lessovitz’s debut is a gritty, naturalistic New York City love story that turns the white male perspective into the outsider.
‘First Love’ Review: Takashi Miike Delivers a Violently Hilarious Yakuza Romp
Cannes: This hard-boiled piece of pulp fiction thaws into a hysterically violent absurdist comedy about the implosion of the Japanese underworld.
‘Pain and Glory’ Review: Pedro Almodóvar’s Best Movie in Years Is His Most Personal — Cannes
Antonio Banderas excels as a version of the Spanish auteur in what may be the closest he comes to crafting a memoir in the medium he knows best.
‘Little Joe’ Review: A Horror Film that Dangerously Compares Antidepressants to an Alien Invasion — Cannes
Jessica Hausner is a brilliant director, but her arthouse riff on “The Happening” carries a potentially dangerous message.
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