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.
Features “The Day After Tomorrow” and Disaster Flicks as Political Polemic Fifteen years after its release, Roland Emmerich's environmental disaster film is no less corny, but its warnings about climate change ring depressingly more urgent.
The Ingenious Implications of A24’s “The Souvenir” Joanna Hogg tells the story of a young artists' maturity with an airtight structure and incredible performances.
The Tomorrow Man Review: A Blandly Quirky Festival-Caliber Romance Noble Jones vies for the title of treacly Sundance-y auteur with his gimmicky romantic drama about a lovelorn doomsday prepper.
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.
Interviews Composer Kurt Farquhar on “American Soul”, “Black Lightning”, and Scoring Thirty Years of Television On this week's podcast, we speak with composer Kurt Farquhar, "the musical voice of the BET," about his work on American Soul and Black Lightning.
Booksmart Review: Girls Rule the World – And the Party Olivia Wilde's debut is a gut-busting comedy that celebrates the power of female friendships.
CCFF 2019 The Perfection Review: Classically Camp Netflix's newest in horror is a twisty gorefest that only misses a few notes.
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.
TV “All in the Family/The Jeffersons Live”: You Can’t Go Home Again Despite its intent, racism with a laugh track falls flat in the current political climate.
Brightburn Review: With Great Power Comes Great Sociopathy James Gunn produces a lean, mean, messy genre exercise that supposes Superman was more Damien than Clark Kent.
TV What’s My Name – Muhammad Ali Review: Sports Doc Gets In Good Hits But Pulls Some Punches Antoine Fuqua's HBO doc about the greatest fighter of all time is an intriguing, if uneven, dive into the man behind the myth.
Ramen Shop Review: Dishing Out Delicious Family Drama Eric Khoo’s film on food, family, and culture isn’t always strong on plot but is ultimately satisfying.
TV Good Omens Review: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Amazon's adaptation of the Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett novel is an unwieldy but charming tale of finding love in the darkest places.
TV Game of Thrones Finale Review: “The Iron Throne” Sends Out the Series On, Well, a Note Divisive though it (and the final season) may have been, Game of Thrones' final episode course-corrects in some satisfying ways.
Features “Princess Mononoke” & the Beauty of Unpleasant Matters One of Miyazaki's most enduring classics, Princess Mononoke addresses the concepts of violence and hatred in a way young viewers can understand.