Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “Little Joe” Offers Modest “Black Mirror” Vibes Jessica Hausner's sci-fi yarn about plants that emit happy drugs doesn't branch out as widely as one would like.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” Paints a Picture of Incredible Passion Céline Sciamma's queer period romance is an intimate visual feast, filled with uncanny empathy and admirable aesthetics.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: Pedro Almodóvar Interrogates the “Pain and Glory” of His Own Career As self-reflective as it is starkly modernist, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest is navel gazing at its finest.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil” Delivers Blood-Soaked Korean Action Lee Won-Tae piles on the cheese in this pulpy gangster thriller that rewards mightily, if you're in the right mood.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “Once in Trubchevsk” Uses Domestic Conflict as Cultural Wallpaper Larisa Sadilova's probing drama highlights small-town Russian culture through an opaque lens.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “All About Yves” Takes Its Crazy Premise To Banal Limits It takes some doing to make a movie about a talking fridge boring, but by gum, Benoît Forgeard's messy comedy manages to pull it off.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “Atlantics” Is Grippingly Dense Afrofuturist Romance Mati Diop's expansion of her documentary short is a scifi-tinged genre experiment that admirably swings for the fences, even if it doesn't land with complete success.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: Ken Loach Dips Back Into the Misery Porn Well With “Sorry We Missed You” Following up I, Daniel Blake with another grim drama about English poverty, Ken Loach spits venom about the dark side of capitalism to mixed results.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: “Oh Mercy!” Fumbles Its Arthouse Murder Mystery Arnaud Desplechin shifts gears with an all-too-straightforward cop drama mired in cliche.
Cannes 2019 Cannes Review: Xavier Dolan Returns with the Idiosyncratic “Matthias and Maxime” The off-kilter French-Canadian auteur returns with a resonant if overlong drama that ends just a bit too messily.