Laurent Cantet has been a bit absent in the international cinema scene ever since winning the Palme d'Or for 2008's The Class. It's not for a lack of trying, of...
With the strongest one-two punch of first produced scripts in Hollywood the past few years, Taylor Sheridan has emerged as a distinctive voice in revitalizi...
Cannon fire rumbles menacingly in the distance, but it’s human desire that might prove to be the greater threat after all in The Beguiled. Set to the backdrop o...
Michel Franco has built a reputation as an actor's director, with his films featuring no shortage of unforgettable lead performances. Tim Roth's creepy leading ...
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...
After last year’s reasonably well-received Dog Eat Dog, director Paul Schrader has already embarked upon his latest project, First Reformed. Apparently more...
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...
