Cannes 2024: Kirill Serebrennikov's film is about a Russian poet and rabble rouser, but it spends much of its time in New York City at its grimiest low
Of all the films premiering at Cannes this year, “The Most Precious of Cargoes” is both an anomaly (the first animated feature to compete for the Palme d’Or since “Persepolis” in 2007) and the most likely to become a classic. Blending the…
Following a buzzy premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” hit theaters nationwide on May 24, 2024. The post-apocalyptic action adventure film co-produced and directed by George Miller, who co-wrote it with Nico…
De legendarische regisseur George Miller blijft maar verhalen bedenken in de wereld van Mad Max. Maar kan Miller ook zonder zijn geliefde hoofdpersoon Max een film op poten zetten die de moeite waard is? Na het zien van Furiosa: A Mad Max…
Woman, life, freedom. Down with theocracy! The slogans shouted in the bloody streets of Tehran over the past year echo through The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof’s long, heartfelt story of an Iranian family that starts to tear…
The writer-director ('There Is No Evil'), who fled Iran after receiving an eight-year prison sentence, unveiled his new film in Cannes’ main competition.
Game, set and match for Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu and Tudor D. Popescu, who co-direct Nasty, a pleasingly hagiographic portrait of Romanian tennis icon Ilie Năstase. What fun tennis must have been in the 1970s, as it was on the turn…
Violent Streets is a 1974 crime thriller film about a fearsome ex-yakuza gangster, trying to go straight, unwillingly drawn into a renewed street war between his former associates. Directed by …
I don’t mind when horror is unsubtle. Many beloved films in the genre are. Not every great horror movie needs to have an intricate, Babadook-style metaphor lurking beneath its scares – hell, the Scream franchise was built on its lack of…
Almost every strand of DNA within Atlas’ genetic makeup is toxic. The haphazard, ham-handed sci-fi film, distributed by a streamer that utilizes computer algorithms to guide its creative process, revolves around a guilt-riddled heroine…
Long ago on a different timeline Makoto Shinkai was a video game animator at Nihon Falcom but the attraction of making films caused him to reset his destiny to become a dominant force on Japanese box office and in process of doing so…
Seemingly from out of nowhere, actor turned director Gilles Lellouche throws a Molotov Flanby into the Competition with only his second feature, a terrific and unexpectedly potent piece of genre filmmaking that could, to avoid spoilers, be…
Bhaiyya Ji is an action-thriller directed by Apoorv Singh Karki, based on a screenplay written bu him and Deepak Kingrani. The movie stars Manoj Bajpayee, Zoya Hussain, Suvinder Vicky, Vipin Sharma and Jatin Goswami. Manoj Bajpayee is also…
Everything about Atlas, the new sci-fi action flick hitting Netflix today, screams summer blockbuster. First of all, it’s opening on Memorial Day weekend, traditionally a platform for huge box office. Along with J-Lo, a bankable star in…