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Category: Critic’s Pick
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May 21, 2025
Cannes 2025, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Kleber Mendonça Filho, News, Reviews, The Secret Agent, TV show
Cannes Review: The Secret Agent is a Rousing, Unsettling Thriller from Kleber Mendonça Filho
When Armando (Wagner Moura) finally resolves to seek a fake passport and one-way ticket out of Brazil for himself and…
May 20, 2025
Cannes 2025, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Harry Lighton, News, Pillion, Reviews, TV show
Cannes Review: Pillion is a Provocative, Funny, and Touching Anti-Romance
It wouldn’t be Cannes without a good scandal film. For 2025, British director Harry Lighton’s feature debut Pillion may be…
May 19, 2025
Brand New Landscape, Cannes 2025, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, Reviews, TV show, Yuiga Danzuka
Cannes Review: Brand New Landscape is an Embodied Estrangement Drama from a Fresh Perspective
When confronted with the past, do you drive away or turn back to face it? Siblings Ren (Kurosaki Kodai, in…
May 18, 2025
Cannes 2025, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, Oliver Laxe, Reviews, Sirat, TV show
Cannes Review: Oliver Laxe’s Desert Trance Sirat Is a Grand, Adventurous Achievement
For the French-Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe, a competition berth in Cannes has been a long time coming. Laxe was here…
May 17, 2025
Bring Her Back, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Film, News, Reviews, TV show
Bring Her Back Review: An Anxiety-Inducing Triumph of Horror
Horror movies explicitly tackling grief are hardly a recent development, but it’s difficult to argue against the fact that we’ve…
May 16, 2025
Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Love, News, Reviews, TV show
Love Review: A Truthful, Soothing Nordic Take on Romance
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Filmfest Hamburg coverage. Love opens in theaters on May…
May 15, 2025
Cannes 2025, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Mascha Schilinski, News, Reviews, Sound of Falling, TV show
Cannes Review: Sound of Falling is a Pyschosexual Fever Dream of Epic Scope
German writer-director Mascha Schilinski’s sophomore feature Sound of Falling is the first competition title to screen at Cannes this year.…
May 02, 2025
Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Joel Potrykus, News, Reviews, Tribeca 2024, TV show, Vulcanizadora
Vulcanizadora Review: A Dark, Hilarious, and Contemplative New Vision from Joel Potrykus
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Tribeca coverage. Vulcanizadora opens in theaters on May 2.…
April 30, 2025
Alex Ross Perry, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, Pavements, Reviews, TV show, Venice 2024
Pavements Review: Alex Ross Perry Both Reinvents and Justifies the Rock Doc
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. Pavements opens in theaters on May 2.…
April 24, 2025
April, Critic's Pick, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, NYFF 2024, Reviews, TIFF 2024, TV show, Venice 2024
April Review: Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Second Feature is a Mystical Cinematic Revelation
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. April opens in theaters on April 25.…