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
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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
How to Make a Killing ★★★
In his directorial debut Emily the Criminal, director John Patton Ford offered a cynical and dark noir updated for theContinue Reading
A Private Life ★★½
Director Rebecca Zlotowski’s A Private Life is a fun and mostly light murder mystery comedy centered on psychiatrist Dr. LilianContinue Reading
Father Mother Sister Brother ★★★½
Father Mother Sister Brother is a film built on its silence. It is quiet and unassuming in general, but itContinue Reading
Autisto ★
“It’s taken from facts which are close to me; (…) inspired by my own experience,” says Jérôme Cohen-Olivar about hisContinue Reading
Life After Siham (documentary) ★★½
He would want for life to be a movie, says Namir Abdel Masseeh in one heartbreaking scene of his intimateContinue Reading
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