Tuesday

08-07-2025 Vol 19

Day: May 23, 2025

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…