Park Chan-wook has often iterated his conviction that vengeance is a topic ripe for infinite cinematic treatments. Following the conclusion of his trilogy dedic...
Premiering in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, The Dancer is an impassioned if formally conservative portrait of Loïe Fuller (...
More than a few eyebrows were raised two years ago when it was announced that the next outing by Bruno Dumont, dour auteur extraordinaire, would be a comedy. Bu...
It’s been two years since Ken Loach took Jimmy’s Hall -- a rather muted film by his standards, rumored at the time to be his swansong -- to the Competition here...
Italians certainly do worship their Mammas, or so goes the narrative of Marco Bellocchio’s Sweet Dreams, which opened the Cannes Director’s Fortnight sidebar to...
While it has yet to premiere, we'd wager a bet that The Red Turtle is a strong contender for the most beautiful film of Cannes. Co-produced by Studio Ghibli...
A last-minute addition to the Cannes Film Festival, Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman is also our most-anticipated of the slate. His follow-up to The Past, whic...
For this critic’s money, of the several excellent filmmakers to emerge from the Romanian New Wave, Cristi Puiu ranks as the most formidable. After kicking off h...
Returning to Cannes after her César-winning performance in Clouds of Sils Maria, Kristen Stewart is back with director Olivier Assayas for Personal Shopper....
Our huge excitement for James Gray's next feature, The Lost City of Z, can partly be explained by this great filmmaker's less-than-prolific output. You can ...
