Tuesday

20-05-2025 Vol 19

Category: Entertainment

Cannes 2025 Video #2: Festival Dispatch with Isaac Feldberg

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development. In today’s video,…

Cannes 2025: A Useful Ghost, Arco

Dust, a character explains in “A Useful Ghost,” is supposed to be a necessary evil in Thailand. It’s a sign…

The Coen Brothers Will Reunite, When the Time is Right

The Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Ethan Coen will have the distinction of capping off the year’s finest in…

Dogma 25 Movement Launches 30 Years After Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95

It’s now been 30 years since Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg launched the Dogme 95 movement, featuring a set…

Cannes Review: Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love Strikes Rote Chords Despite Jennifer Lawrence’s Visceral Performance

Near the climax of Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, two assassins––one well-dressed but dying, the other ragged but…

Cannes Review: Lav Diaz’s Magellan is a Hypnotic, Unambiguous Exploration of the Horrors of Colonization

Ferdinand Magellan was never regarded as a great man of history, and Lav Diaz’s surprisingly conventional––if still hypnotically paced––biopic uses…

Cannes Review: Drunken Noodles is a Sultry and Strangely Calming Drama

The laws of time and space are met with frisky ambivalence in Drunken Noodles, Lucio Castro’s anticipated third feature and…

Cannes Review: Christian Petzold’s Mirrors No. 3 is an Enigmatic Drama About Letting Go

Christian Petzold’s fifteenth feature Mirrors No. 3 marks his fourth with Paula Beer, the actor-muse he first directed in 2018’s…

Cannes Review: Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir is a Gradually Rewarding Coming-of-Age Story

Just three years since earning a special mention from the Camera d’Or jury for Plan 75, Chie Hayakawa returns to…

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…