While he's been in France for some time doing pre-production and test shoots, today Christopher Nolan officially commences production on his Interstellar fo...
With a jury headed up by George Miller, the 2016 Cannes Film Festival delivered their awards this weekend, giving Ken Loach his second Palme d'Or, this time...
Considering the heights he’s reached in the past, Graduation constitutes a disappointing step backwards for erstwhile Romanian New Wave front-runner Cristian Mu...
Excessively schematic plotting is a recurring weakness of writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s work. Films like About Elly and The Past suffered from contrived narr...
It takes all of zero seconds for the first rape to occur in Paul Verhoeven’s Elle. The film opens on a black screen and to the sounds of breaking glass and stif...
Can our children pick and choose the personality traits they inherit, or are they doomed to obtain our lesser qualities? These are the hard questions being medi...
Laura Poitras’ greatest strength as a documentarian is winning the trust of high-profile individuals and getting them to appear in front of her camera. In her r...
There is a moment in Sean Penn’s new film -- for some reason screening this week in competition in Cannes -- when, having navigated the safe passage of a group ...
The problem in trying to critically assess Nicolas Winding Refn’s putrid atrocity of a film The Neon Demon is that regardless how much outrage is thrown at it, ...
It’s been seven years since Maren Ade's second feature Everyone Else premiered at the Berlinale, taking home the Jury Prize, and we've been waiting for her ...
