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16-06-2025 Vol 19

Day: May 16, 2025

Cannes 2025 Video #1: Robert De Niro Receives Honorary Palme d’Or and Advocates Protecting Democracy and Art

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development, including her breakdown…

Though Uneven, ‘Overcompensating’ Is a Promising New Comedy

“In a nutshell,” says Dr. Faye Miller to Don Draper during the fourth season of “Mad Men,” “it all comes…

Restored and Rediscovered Festival Spotlights Organizations at the Forefront of Film Restoration

It seems like every month, there’s an exciting new 4K re-release or a newly restored rediscovery that’s reaching audiences for…

Cannes 2025: Two Prosecutors, Adam’s Sake, Promised Sky

The Kyiv-raised director Sergei Loznitsa has divided his recent career between documentaries and dramatized features. When he’s in the latter…

Cannes 2025: Sound of Falling, Reedland

Cannes takes a day to settle in, using the opening night to hear from the jury (led this year by…

Cannes Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors Feels Eerily Attuned to Our Post-Truth World

When Donbass arrived in 2018, sandwiched between the start of the 2014 Russian-backed conflict in the titular eastern Ukrainian region…

Cannes Review: Enzo is a Queer Coming-of-Age Tale Conveyed with Delicacy

The queer coming-of-age experience is one of great vulnerability: a young person must grapple with the realization they’re becoming different…

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…

Next Sohee Review: Korean Thriller Handles a Heavy Subject with a Steady Hand

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2022 Fantasia coverage. Next Sohee opens in theaters on May…