Throughout Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger, the softly croaky and comforting voice of Martin Scorsese repeatedly reminds us that the…
Many critics’ wrap-ups from the 2023 edition of Cannes included dismissive language directed at Ken Loach’s new film competition film, The Old Oak. As…
Matteo Garrone’s new film Io Capitano includes a map of the exact overland path taken by its two main characters during the end credits, charting the indirect route from Dakar…
In Emmanuel Carrère’s Between Two Worlds, Juliette Binoche’s character, Marianne, is introduced as a credibly depressing symptom of the global economy. In her fifties…
André (André Dussollier) has a case of deep vein thrombosis in his right leg, complicated by a pulmonary embolism. He’s also just had a…
An ominous POV shot that wanders around a loud and joyful wedding opens Let It Be Morning, although we’re not, as it turns out,…
The farcical elements of The Good Boss amusingly build across its runtime, but by the end the film feels a bit too schematic and…
Apples boasts a rich starting premise, but too often undermines its conceptual potency with obvious punchlines and lazy sentimentality. What would society look like…
Gagarine is a small film, but one impressive in the balance of wonder and stark melancholy it conjures. Against the harsh realities of time…
Who You Think I Am attempts to speak to our current Internet age, but mines only shallowly with its picked-over storytelling mode. Juliette Binoche, for…
White As Snow adds a wry wrinkle of feminist reclamation to its classic storyline, but unfortunately fails to successfully execute much else. Like so many…
Jacquot’s latest sticks to the directors strengths, mining poignancy from the inexplicable and beauteous. As erratic and eccentric as any new film by Benoît…
Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun has the noblest of intents, making it almost impossible not to admire it in the abstract. It’s also…
Ash Is Purest White begins with the blaring of a bus horn — a sound which bears striking resemblance to another, heard at the…
Michel Hazanavicius has somehow made a relatively successful career out of feebly imitating established genre tropes or broadly recreating old forms of filmmaking, with The Artist…