The Good Lawyer ★
Despite the lack of intentional humour in Tristan Séguéla‘s overwrought courtroom affair, its title almost seems like an in-joke. “BadContinue Reading
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Jupiter ★½
A year ago, Kathryn Bigelow entered the Venice competition with her apocalyptic atomic strike thriller A House of Dynamite; aContinue Reading
Tomb of Dreams ★★½
In a world of constant and consecutive catastrophes, where one terrible event is surpassed by the next before its consequencesContinue Reading
Evil Dead Burn ★★½
Sam Raimi’s original Evil Dead trilogy established the core elements of the franchise: ruthless ‘Deadites’ brought to life by recitingContinue Reading
Couture ★★½
Set during Paris Fashion Week, director Alice Winocour’s Couture follows four women who work behind-the-scenes and in front of theContinue Reading
Under a Bad Star ★★½
Casting their own daughter Anouk Berlier in the role of Malone, the little girl whose perspective on her parents’ abusiveContinue Reading
Lucy Lost ★★
That well-meaning message of countless children’s movies, “Just be yourself”, becomes increasingly ambivalent in Olivier Clert‘s animated feature film debut.Continue Reading
Species ★★
Since Coralie Fargeat‘s bloodthirsty body horror The Substance, Cannes has developed a taste for women-made genre fare deploying and oftenContinue Reading
Jim Queen ★★½
“We are all about the G,” explains the fairy godmotherly drag queen Glamydia (Harald Marlot) to clueless closeted twink LucienContinue Reading
The Wizard of the Kremlin ★★½
Olivier Assayas’s The Wizard of the Kremlin is a sprawling and ambitious film. Tracking a changing Russia from the fallContinue Reading
