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22-05-2025 Vol 19

Category: Critic’s Pick

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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.…

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 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.…