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Day: May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025
Entertainment, Festivals & Awards, Film, News, TV show
Cannes 2025: Sentimental Value, Romería, The History of Sound
If you’ve been following along, you’ll notice that most of these capsules have been grab bags that aren’t necessarily linked…
May 23, 2025
Entertainment, Festivals & Awards, Film, News, TV show
Cannes 2025: It Was Just an Accident, Alpha
Much has been made of the length of standing ovations after Cannes screenings, but the most memorable one this year…
May 23, 2025
Entertainment, Festivals & Awards, Film, News, TV show
Cannes 2025: A Private Life, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
Jodie Foster is known to be fluent in French, but Rebecca Zlotowski’s film “A Private Life,” showing out of competition,…
May 23, 2025
Cannes 2025, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Joachim Trier, News, Reviews, Sentimental Value, TV show
Cannes Review: Sentimental Value Thrives on Joachim Trier and Renate Reinsve’s Inimitable Chemistry
Over a delicately structured, Mike Mills-ian montage of Nora Berg’s (Renate Reinsve) personal heritage––30-odd years of an Oslo native’s existence…
May 23, 2025
Cannes 2025, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Josh O’Connor, News, Paul Mescal, Reviews, The History of Sound, TV show
Cannes Review: The History of Sound is a Tenderly Felt Drama with Terence Davies-Style Musicality
It’s strange to hear backwood Appalachian fiddle folk in a French theater at the hand of a South African director…
May 23, 2025
Cannes 2025, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi, News, Reviews, TV show
Cannes Review: It Was Just an Accident is Jafar Panahi’s Fiercest, Most Incendiary Takedown of Iran’s Regime
If you were handed over the man who destroyed your life and those of countless others––a psychopath who tortured, raped,…
May 23, 2025
Alessio Rigo de Righi, Cannes 2025, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Heads or Tails, Matteo Zoppis, News, Reviews, TV show
Cannes Review: Heads or Tails is an Ethereal, Lived-In Western
I could name few living filmmakers better equipped for the Western than Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis. The…