Matthias & Maxime ★★★
We never see the pivotal kiss that informs every consecutive second of Matthias & Maxime. Xavier Dolan‘s latest, a distantContinue Reading
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Wounds Ø
If ever there was a digital-age successor to the totally dumb delight of Tommy Wiseau‘s 2003 cult classic The Room,Continue Reading
The Dead Don’t Die ★★
Very few film genres have become as thoroughly rotten to the core over the years as the zombie movie. It’sContinue Reading
The Sisters Brothers ★★★½
“Brothers by blood. Sisters by name” is the tagline for French director Jacques Audiard‘s first outing at the helm of anContinue Reading
Suspiria ★★½
Between the feverish anticipation for Bradley Cooper‘s A Star is Born and Luca Guadagnino‘s Suspiria, the 75th Venice Film Festival has been theContinue Reading
First Man ★½
Helming the darling of the 2016 awards season, La La Land director Damien Chazelle returns to the 2018 Venice Film Festival withContinue Reading
Three Days in Cannes 2018
Our senior critic Ben McDonald recently attended the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival as part of the brand new ThreeContinue Reading
Under the Silver Lake ★★★½
Under the Silver Lake steals Tarantino‘s guiding philosophy that homage can be original and sprints home with it, tossing classic Hollywood intoContinue Reading
The Wild Pear Tree
David Lynch was right: words have failed me. As I left the Cannes premiere of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The WildContinue Reading
Cold War ★★★
“Who knew true love could be so chilly?” should read the tagline for Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski’s 85-minute romantic epicContinue Reading
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