A black-comic thriller from South Korean director of Memories of Murder and Snowpiercer Parasite combines the broad satire of Bong Joon-Ho’s recent output with the fascination...
The latest from French auteur regular Arnaud Desplechin For a while, it seemed that Arnaud Desplechin was the closest filmmaker we had to a modern-day Truffaut....
Dardenne Brothers Deliver a Coming-of-Age Tale of a Young Terrorist “A true Muslim doesn’t shake a woman’s hand,” says the title character in the first scene...
Gaspar Noé’s pint-sized Lux Æterna is an exercise in self-aggrandizement disguised as a feminist deconstruction of the injustices of the film industry. Running a brisk fifty-two...
French actor-writer-director Mati Diop returns to Cannes with the first feature competition entry ever directed by a black woman. In combining seductive sensuality, sophisticated genre play,...
Longtime collaborator Antonio Banderas stars in Pedro Almodóvar’s semi-autobiographical Pain and Glory It’s not difficult to detect the autobiographical details in Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory,...
Too Old to Die Young brings the genre provocateur Nicholas Winding Refn to Amazon for a 13-hour miniseries. Maintaining a distinct authorial presence is one thing;...
The Climb is a Brilliant Reinvention of the Buddy Comedy. In the opening moments of Michael Covino’s The Climb, which follows a peaceful biking trip between...
Kantemir Balagov follows Closeness, his accomplished-but-slight debut feature, with the significantly more ambitious Beanpole, an exploration of the interconnection between national and personal trauma. Loosely adapted...
At first glance, Sorry We Missed You may appear to be merely a re-tread of Loach’s 2016 Palme d’Or winner; both films focus on the steady...