Shocking and resonant, disarmingly grotesque and also weirdly fun, "The Substance" is a feminist body-horror film that should be seen in movie theaters all over the world.
Have you ever dreamed about being a better version of yourself? With her second film, Coralie Fargeat not only addresses this question but takes aim at ageism and sexism in the entertainment industry with a riotous, dreamlike horror…
Remember the communiqué from the Rambouillet G7 conference back in 1975? Of course they do. Tramping through a wooded estate somewhere in Germany, pursued by the zombie remains of Iron Age chieftains recently exhumed from the grounds of…
The director stars alongside Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone and Luke Wilson in the opener of a quartet of films about the settlement of the American West.
‘Sometimes we are called to the darkness’ The Luring is a 2019 horror film about a young man who tries to discover what event traumatised him as a child. Written …
Some films prioritize a strident political cause, others set out to terrify or thrill. This touching and simple story from Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Okuyama, premiering in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, is a gentler affair, with modest…
In the Moscow Times’ obituary for Eduard Limonov, who died four years ago aged 77, writer Mark Galeotti summed up the poet turned politician in two simple sentences: “Was Limonov a visionary or a poser, an artist or a politician, a leftist…
Cannes film festival Eduard Limonov’s bizarre career, from rebel émigré writer in New York to leader of a fascistic, militaristic political group, is told with gusto by Kirill Serebrennikov
In Japan the very first few snowflakes begin to fall signaling the change of seasons. Another clue is we see young Takuya (Keitatsu Koshiyama) and his baseball-playing buddies taking those final swings at bat and moving on to ice hockey.…
Birmingham Rep; Coliseum; Barbican; Soho theatre, London Bruce Robinson’s new adaptation of his cult film is too theatrical by half; the latest staged Studio Ghibli fantasy is more effects than feeling; and all hail Isabelle Huppert’s many…
Film critic and cinematographer Carson Lund’s debut feature, about a final ball game between a bunch of aging players, premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at Cannes.
The very title of “Everybody Loves Touda” poses a kind of challenge to viewers. If everybody loves Touda, dare you not? Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch’s forthright musical drama certainly doesn’t permit much room for dissent. From first…
The latest from 'My Life as a Zucchini' helmer Claude Barras is about a group of Indigenous people trying to protect their land from rampant deforestation.
Cannes film festival Noémie Merlant’s first film as a director is relentlessly silly, self-indulgent and unsuited to its themes of misogyny and sexual violence
Ghost story, body horror, feminist comedy and a freshly minted edition of that very French subgenre, How to Get Rid of a Troublesome Corpse: Noémie Merlant, familiar as a fine actress from Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, packs…
Poolman (2023) Film Review, a movie directed by Chris Pine, written by Ian Gotler and Chris Pine and starring Chris Pine, Annette Bening, DeWanda Wise, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Danny DeVito, Stephen Tobolowsky, John Ortiz, Hollis W. Chambers,…