“Is this the end of the world? Is this the death of light?” ponders a character roughly an hour in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life, encapsulating...
Terrence Malick’s majestic A Hidden Life is orchestrated around dialectical clashes — the physical vs the metaphysical, inner integrity vs external honour, and individual rights vs...
Robert Eggers delivers on the promise of his acclaimed 2015 slow-burn horror The Witch and then some in The Lighthouse, an altogether more playful, experimental, and...
Just as he accomplished in his outstanding 2014 breakout hit Black Coal, Thin Ice, Diao Yinan uses neo-noir tropes to explore the socio-economic conditions of modern...
It’s almost criminal how aggressively Jessica Hausner’s English-language debut, Little Joe, works to drain the fun out of a juicy exploitation premise. Hausner has crafted a...
Whereas Arnaud Desplechin found his unique artistic vision smothered by the conventions of the police procedural in his middling Oh Mercy!, Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu uses...
Following a trajectory introduced in 2009’s Honour of the Knights and continuing though to the great The Death of Louis XIV, Albert Serra pushes his cinema...
Quebecois director Xavier Dolan returns to Cannes It’s been a full decade since Xavier Dolan’s first feature, I Killed My Mother, premiered at Cannes when the...
Illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti makes his feature directorial debut with The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily, a well-mounted, perfectly diverting adaptation of the cult 1945 children’s book...
Willem Dafoe Stars in Abel Ferrara’s moving character study “That film made me a Buddhist. I got so Catholic I became a Buddhist.” – Abel Ferrara,...