Tuesday

20-05-2025 Vol 19

Category: Entertainment

Cannes Review: With Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater Offers a Cinema Masterclass

Shot on black-and-white film with the same Cameflex model used by Jean-Luc Godard for Breathless––the film it portrays and embodies…

Cannes 2025: Dossier 137, A Pale View of Hills, The Great Arch

A confidently made procedural from the Competition program for this year’s Palme d’Or should engage with audiences outside of Cannes…

Cannes 2025: The Plague, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Amrum

Themes emerge at film festivals, reflections of international anxieties and concerns collected in art. An early topic of conversation at…

Cannes Review: Ari Aster’s Eddington is an Ambitious 2020 Period Piece That Works in Fits and Spurts

In Eddington, Ari Aster’s latest doom spiral, the proposed building of a data center in nowhere New Mexico provides the…

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…

Cannes Review: I Only Rest in the Storm Glides Over Many Ideas Without Fully Reckoning With Their Weight

Late into I Only Rest in the Storm, Sergio (Sérgio Coragem) is asked a question he can’t seem to answer:…

Cannes Review: The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo is a Deeply Affecting Queer Drama

As reminders that ignorance, bigotry, and hate can literally kill, stories about the AIDS epidemic will always be relevant. The…

Cannes Review: A Useful Ghost Tells a Peculiar, Humorous Paranormal Tale 

While ghosts and spirits have long been the conduit for cinematic scares and jolts, from The Innocents to Poltergeist to…

Cannes 2025: Left-Handed Girl, Sirât

Sean Baker, the winner of last year’s Palme d’Or (and four Oscars) for “Anora,” already has a new film at…

Apple TV+’s “Murderbot” Functions Along Mission Parameters, But Needs To Work Out Some Bugs

It’s funny, in a world where the “Andor” finale gave us the recent return of K-2SO, “Star Wars”‘s most invigoratingly…