Cannes

[Cannes Review] The Shameless

There is something to be said about the satisfying catharsis from a pure melodrama -- a movie that is so earnest and excessive in service to its genre conventio...

[Cannes Review] Green Room

Jeremy Saulnier’s indie hit Blue Ruin, which won the FIPRESCI prize at the 2013 Directors' Fortnight and went on to enjoy a critically lauded international run,...

[Cannes Review] Carol

To be an actress and land a leading role in a Todd Haynes film must be a dream come true. With Safe, Far From Heaven, and his five-part miniseries Mildred Pierc...

[Cannes Review] Sweet Bean

Festival programming is more often than not fraught with ulterior considerations. Which is why so much is being read into symbolic placements such as the openin...

[Cannes Review] Son of Saul

László Nemes' prodigious debut feature, Son of Saul, inhabits what Primo Levi called “The Gray Zone” in his essay of the same name: the reality of the Sonderkom...