Cinema lost one of its pre-eminent pioneers when Abbas Kiarostami died on July 4, 2016. Over the course of his 46-year filmmaking career, the Iranian master nev...
Director Jonas Carpignano returns with his first film since Mediterranea (which broke out from Cannes Critics' Week sidebar two years ago) to remind us that alp...
It's more Pastiche du Godard than Histoire(s) du Godard in Michel Hazanavicius’ Godard Mon Amour and that’s not a bad thing. The director’s slight but surprisin...
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer recently debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, where it proceeded to make an entire audience uncomfortable, as...
What does a cowboy do when he can’t ride? Chloe Zhao’s absorbing South Dakota-set sophomore feature has its titular rider come to terms with such a fate, in a f...
There are surely few sweeter delights in this troubling world of ours than seeing Willem Dafoe politely escort a group of storks off a motel driveway. It is, pe...
With the successive features Dogtooth, Alps, and The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos seemed to be going down the same route as Wes Anderson, i.e. become one of those ...
Documentaries such as David Byars’ fascinating No Man's Land have an important function going beyond the headlines, memes, and talking points that prove to be d...
Editor's Note: Promised Land has been retitled The King for its U.S. release. See our review below.
A title like Promised Land can be appreciated for its dua...