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,…
It may not be too much of an exaggeration to say that Jim Henson came up with the concept for an immersive video dome long before Sphere bubbled up in Las Vegas.
Cannes film festival A thoroughly implausible yarn about a Mexican cartel leader who hires a lawyer to arrange his transition is carried along by its cheesy Broadway energy
On paper, it looks mad as a loose wheel. A largely Spanish-language musical about a Mexican druglord having a sex change, featuring onetime Disney teen star Selena Gomez as a gangster’s wife: nobody could deny director and writer Jacques…
The film has been designed as a bad-trip psychodrama that’s also a high-camp Nicolas Cage freak-out. I only wish that "The Surfer," as directed by Lorcan Finnegan and written by Thomas Martin, had the filmmaking chops to match its what-is…
Kartik Aaryan's performance in Chandu Champion trailer has netizens buzzing with excitement, lauding his portrayal of the determined protagonist. With his compelling acting, Aaryan breathes life into the character, earning praise and…
Stalwart Sixth Generation Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke leads his partner and muse, Zhao Tao, on a decades-long romantic odyssey in Caught By the Tides, which tries too hard to play with time and form for the connection between its leads…
The Chinese title of Jia Zhangke’s mesmerizing “Caught by the Tides,” a masterfully poetic and pioneering fusion of the old and the new, can be translated in several ways. Jia himself suggests “The Drifting Generation” but it can also mean…
Cannes film festival The 20-year failed romance between a singer and a dodgy music promoter becomes the vehicle for director Jia Zhangke’s latest exploration of China’s momentous recent history
Cannes: The director of acclaimed “My Life as a Courgette” returns with a film about the conflict between logging companies and native nomadic people in modern Borneo.
Three years ago, Cannes audiences fell in love with Renata Reinsve, the titular star of Norwegian competition entry The Worst Person in the World. Chances are, they won’t be quite as well disposed to her character in this austere drama…
Irish Wish (2024) Film Review, directed by Janeen Damian, written by Kirsten Hansen, and starring Lindsay Lohan, Ed Speleers, Alexander Vlahos, Elizabeth Tan, and Dawn Bradfield.
Cannes: In documenting a Portuguese village's attempt to halt construction of a lithium mine, Paulo Carneiro's film exposes how the mission of fighting climate change is often at odds with preservation.