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
Category: Festival Coverage
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
(19) 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
BlacKkKlansman ★★★½
There’s a chilling moment towards the middle of BlacKkKlansman where Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) laughs at the notion thatContinue Reading
Burning ★★★★
Nothing about Burning is certain except that it haunts the mind long after the credits conclude. Though Lee Chang-dong’s latestContinue Reading
2017 Chicago International Film Festival: “Last Flag Flying”
Three things I’ve learned this week: Waiting in line for The Square had me thinking that you have to waitContinue Reading
2017 Chicago International Film Festival: “BPM”
The city looks a bit different when it isn’t raining. It has more life to it. I saw a homelessContinue Reading
