Welcome to the Category Archive for Film Festivals
- Cate Blanchett's Apple TV+ Series 'Disclaimer' is Beautifully Made
- 'Saturday Night' Is an Flattering Portrayal of the Talents of an Unflattering Cast
- Review: 'The Brutalist' Proves Size Does Matter
- Review: Mike Leigh And Marianne Jean-Baptiste Deliver Hard-Hitting 'Hard Truths'
- Review: Masturbating Zombies & Cate Blanchett Storm The G7 Summit In 'Rumours'
- Sarah Paulson Can't Act Her Way Out of 'Hold Your Breath'
- Review: 'Oddity' Is An Entire Cursed Object Shoppe's Worth Of Fright
- 'Emilia Pérez' Is One of the Most Audacious Musicals of Our Time
- Amy Adams Goes Feral in 'Nightbitch'
- Death Becomes Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley in 'The Substance'
- 'The Last Showgirl' Is a Stunning Showcase for Pamela Anderson
- Body Horror Meets Black Comedy in Cronenberg's Deeply Personal 'The Shrouds'
- Rebecca Hall's TV Series 'The Listeners' Offers a Languid but Unnerving Descent into Conspiracy
- Korean Slow Burn Drama 'By the Stream' is As Close to True Realism as Cinema Gets
- 'Really Happy Someday' Is a Different Kind of Transition Story
- Nicole Kidman Discovers Lust in the Excellent and Surprising 'Babygirl'
- 'M. Son of the Century' Depicts the Rise of Fascism Through Mussolini's Eyes
- Angelina Jolie's Earnest Drama 'Without Blood' is Respectable but Flat
- 'The Last of the Sea Women' Dives Head-First Into the Work of a Fierce but Dwindling Community
- 'Heretic' Imagines the Horror of Being Stuck in Conversation with a Man Who Does His Own Research
- Almodovar's Excellent 'The Room Next Door' Tackles Death, Friendship, and Love
- Review: In 'Conclave,' the Election of a Pope Mirrors Familiar Political Rot
- 'Vice is Broke' is Too Enamored With the Company's Legend to Tackle its Messy Truth
- 'Bonjour Tristesse' is a Visually Striking but Emotionally Inert Adaptation of a French Classic
- Review: 'Steppenwolf' Tells The 'John Wick' Movies To Eff Off
- Review: 'Self Driver' Drags Our Dystopian Gig Economy To Hell & Back
- Review: 'Bookworm' Is Family Film Done Right With A Never Better Elijah Wood
- Review: 'Haze' Is A Sexy Slow-Burn Psychological Trip With Teeth
- Review: Carrie Coon & Shea Whigham Make Neo-Noir Magic In 'Lake George'
- Review: A Black Family's Home Invasion Twists 'The Knife' Into Unbearable Tension
- Review: Michael Cera & Michael Angarano Road-Trip Their Frayed Friendship Out In The Lovely Little 'Sacramento'
- Review: 'Griffin In Summer' Is Brutally Funny Theater Kid Coming-Of-Age Brilliance
- Review: 'The Weekend' Is 'Meet The Parents' In Hell
- Richard Linklater's 'Hit Man' Is the Best Possible Use of Glen Powell's No-Face
- Review: The Slasher Is Reborn In The Terrifying 'In A Violent Nature'
- Review: Dirty Beautiful Josh O'Connor Digs Up The Past In 'La Chimera'
- David Dastmalchian's 'Late Night with the Devil' Takes the Late-Night Wars into the Horror Genre
- Review: Kristen Stewart's 'Love Lies Bleeding' Is Gonna Kick Your Ass And Make You Beg For More
- Review: 'Bottoms' Is Tops!
- Review: 'Veni Vidi Vici' Is A Sociopath's Paradise
- Review: Sebastian Stan Presses the New Flesh In the Fantastic 'A Different Man'
- Review: Get Ghosted By Steven Soderbergh's 'Presence'
- Review: Bradley Cooper's Vapid 'Maestro' Is an Empty, Craven Affront
- Review: Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore Unravel True Crime With 'May December'
- David Fincher's 'The Killer' Is An Unblinking Sociopathic Master-Class Of Fun
- 'Dream Scenario' Is Nightmare Fuel
- Netflix's 'All the Light We Cannot See' Is Trite, Clumsy, and Occasionally Aggravating
- Review: 'Suitable Flesh' Is Here To Penetrate Yours With Lovecraftian Lunacy
- Review: Emma Stone Is The Lightning That Animates 'Poor Things'
- Review: 'All Of Us Strangers' Is An Astonishment
- 'Hell of a Summer' Review: Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk Made a Boring Slasher Comedy
- The Endlessly Magnetic Colman Domingo Elevates the By-The-Numbers Biopic 'Rustin'
- 'Viva Varda!' Does Justice to a Filmmaking Legend's Life in One Hour
- 'Boy Kills World' Is a Throat Punch Weirdo Action Darling
- 'The Contestant' Reveals The Horrifying Birth of Modern Reality TV
- Review: Nyad, Starring Annette Bening, is Just Another Biopic
- 'Dumb Money' Is the Loud Music Finance Bullshit You Want it to Be
- Review: 'Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person' Is As Delightful As Its Title
- In 'The End We Start From,' Jodie Comer Takes on Motherhood
- Anna Kendrick's Directorial Debut 'Woman of the Hour' Explores Misogyny Amid a Killer's Spree
- Review: 'Smugglers' is a Slick and Satisfying '70s Korean Crime Movie
- Review: 'Next Goal Wins' is Too Much Taika, Not Enough Heart
- Colman Domingo Dominates in Striking 'Sing Sing'
- 'Orlando, My Political Biography' is Part Memoir, Part Literary Adaptation, Part Revolution
- Elliot Page Reminds Audiences of His Talent in the Earnest if Muddled 'Close To You'
- 'Nickelback: Hate to Love' is a Musical Doc About Rock's Punching Bag
- Review: 'They Shot the Piano Player,' Starring Jeff Goldblum, Review
- With 'The Boy and the Heron,' Hayao Miyazaki Makes Another Masterpiece
- Review: The Heat Generated In Ira Sachs' 'Passages' Will Scorch Your Soul
- Review: Nicolas Cage Burns It Down, Again, In 'Sympathy For the Devil'
- Review: Christian Petzold's Emotional Apocalypse Will Set Your Summer 'Afire'
- Laura Galán Snatches The Scream Queen Crown Via 'One Night With Adela"
- Review: 'Clueless' Goes To Hell In 'Perpetrator'
- Nicole Holofcener Tackles a Writer's Worst Nightmare in 'You Hurt My Feelings'
- Review: 'BlackBerry' Adequately Roasts Jim Balsillie
- No One Is Safe from Slaughter in the Messy But Entertaining 'Evil Dead Rise'
- Review: Taran Egerton's 'Tetris' Is an Amped-Up Stranger-than-Fiction Saga
- 'Problemista' is a Surreal Slice of Julio Torres' Stylings
- Review: Hulu's 'Appendage' Exists
- Review: The Mustache Unmakes The Man In The Unsettlingly Sparse 'The Integrity Of Joseph Chambers'
- Review: Carter Smith's 'Swallowed' Digs Deep Into The Dark Nooks Of Queer-Horror
- Review: Jonathan Majors Is A Muscle-Bound Powerhouse In 'Magazine Dreams'
- Review: 'Skinamarink' Is Gonna Scare You Right Back To The Dark Ages
- Review: 'Rotting In The Sun' Is Breathlessly Funny and Mean-Spirited
- Adam Driver And Greta Gerwig Face Down The Apocalypse In Noah Baumbach's Incomparable 'White Noise'
- 'Glass Onion' (The Knives Out Sequel) Is Rian Johnson's Whodunit Reaction to Our Hellish Reality
- Review: Tilda Swinton in Joanna Hogg's Perfect Ghost Story 'The Eternal Daughter'
- Review: Mythic WTF Weirdness Abounds In The Surreal Freak-Out 'A Wounded Fawn'
- 'The Wonder' Cements Florence Pugh as One of the Best Actresses in her Age Range
- Jeremy Pope and Gabrielle Union Wow In Elegance Britton's 'The Inspection'
- Review: Cate Blanchett Is Maestra Of Us All In The Career-Defining 'Tár'
- Martin McDonagh's Bleak Comedy 'The Banshees of Inisherin,' Starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson
- Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell Find Love In a Hopeless Place In 'Bones And All'
- Review: 'The Greatest Beer Run Ever' on Apple TV+ Is Bad
- Review: 'Carmen' is a Messy Reinterpretation of the Iconic Opera
- Review: 'Dalíland' Brings an Iconic Artist to Life but Fails to Live Up to His Vision
- Review: Mia Goth Sparkles and Slashes in 'Pearl'
- Review: Henry Selick and Jordan Peele Are a Striking Creative Pair in 'Wendell and Wild'
- 'See How They Run' Is a Comedically Meta Whodunit
- Review: 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' Tells the Story of a Remarkable Life and a Battle Against the Opioid Crisis
- Review: 'Sick' is an Otherwise Worthy 'Scream' Successor Coated in Infectious COVID Droplets
- Review: François Ozon's Goofy 'Peter Von Kant' Is Solid Food For Us Fassbinder Nerds
- Review: 'Glorious' Is the Trolley Problem by Way of 'Futurama'
- Review: 'Hypochondriac' Is More of the Same but Different
- Review: 'Relax, I'm From the Future,' is 'Terminator' by Way of Zany Youth
- Review: 'PEN15' Star Anna Konkle Puts The Boom In Baby Boom With The Dark Comedy 'The Drop'
- Review: Irish Horror Gains Another Unsettling Classic with 'You Are Not My Mother'
- Review: Penelope Cruz And Antonio Banderas Devour The Art-House In The Frantically Funny 'Official Competition'
- Review: How Hungry We Are For Horror, And Here's 'Family Dinner' To Fill Us Up
- Review: Maika Monroe And Karl Glusman Make For Gorgeous Things To Watch In 'Watcher'
- Review: Terence Davies' 'Benediction' Brings Us The Life, Loves, And Losses Of The Gay Poet Siegfried Sassoon
- Review: Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones Put The 'Meat' In 'Meet Cute' With The Horror Rom-Com 'Fresh'
- Review: Werewolf Chiller 'The Cursed' Trades Its Soul For Fool's Gold
- Why You Should Watch 'Drive My Car,' This Year's Surprise Best Picture Oscar Nominee
- Review: 'You Won't Be Alone' Is A Fine Folk-Horror 'Orlando' Made For Poetry Majors And Gore-Hounds Alike
- Review: Pop The Champagne! Bill Nighy's Giving The Performance Of His Life in 'Living'
- Review: 'Brian and Charles' Is A Lo-Fi Franken-Comedy Bursting With Goofball Charm
- Review: The Ol' Blind-Girl-in-Jeopardy Genre Gets New Juice With The Atmospheric & Terrific 'See For Me'
- Review: Joel Coen's 'The Tragedy of Macbeth' is an Impeccably Stylish Act of Mimicry
- Review: The Graceful 'Mothering Sunday' Gives Romance to the Ghosts
- Now on Netflix: Yeon Sang-ho's Bleak Horror K-Drama, 'Hellbound'
- Review: Rebecca Hall's 'Passing' Passes But Not With Flying Colors
- 'Eternals' Review: Marvel's Reach Finally Exceeds Its Grasp
- Review: 'Broadcast Signal Intrusion' Starring Harry Shum Jr.
- Review: Jake Gyllenhaal is on Fire, Again, in 'The Guilty'
- Review: 'I'm Your Man': A Cynical Modern Woman Navigates Romance with a Robot as Hot as Dan Stevens
- Review: 'Silent Night' is an Existential Crisis by Way of Michael Bublé Music and Wine from the Bottle
- Review: The Vampire Tale 'Kicking Blood' Offers Fresh Life to Old Addiction Metaphors
- Review: 'Sundown' Offers a Droll Midlife Crisis Drama with a Few Sharp Twists
- Review: Alison Pill Shines in the Deeply Literary Family Drama 'All My Puny Sorrows'
- Review: 'Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash' Combines Toxic Masculinity, Martial Arts Parody, and Maybe a Sexy Ghost?
- Review: Argentine Horror 'To Kill the Beast' Brings the Tropical Gothic to the Big Screen
- Review: Can 'No Man Of God' Make The Case For More Ted Bundy Movies?
- Review: 'CODA' Is a Poignant and Playful Crowdpleaser
- Review: 'Annette' Delivers Adam Driver Singing While Going Down On Marion Cotillard, But What Else?
- Review: Paul Verhoeven's Wickedly Funny 'Benedetta' Kicks Back Against a New Wave of Puritanism
- Review: Olivia Colman And Colin Firth's 'Mothering Sunday' is Insufferably English
- Review: Patrick Fugit Anchors The Often Suffocatingly Sad Vampire Tale 'My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To'
- Review: 'Censor' Scores An R (For Rad) Rating
- Review: The Minor Mental Health Odyssey of 'Violet' Starring Olivia Munn
- Review: The Psychedelic Freak-Out Folk-Horror of Ben Wheatley's 'In the Earth'
- Review: Leah Purcell Guides the Strongly Acted 'The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson'
- Review: 'Fruits of Labor' and 'Ludi' Explore Intersectionality and the Grueling American Dream
- Review: 'Without Getting Killed or Caught' Ponders the Bonds Tying Guy and Susanna Clark and Townes Van Zandt
- Review: 'Trapped' Gives Egypt's 2011 Revolution An Uneven Vignette Treatment
- Review: 'Hysterical' Highlights the Struggles and Successes of of Women in the Stand-Up Comedy World
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- Review: Udo Kier's 'Swan Song' Is A Magnificent Celebration Of A Bitter Old Queen
- Review: 'Ninjababy' Is Like 'Obvious Child' But Brazenly Bonkers
- Review: 'Recovery' Is A COVID Comedy That's Actually Funny, Like REALLY Funny
- Review: 'Violation' Delivers A Harrowing Exploration Of He Said / She Said
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- Review: 'Prisoners of the Ghostland' Makes Nicolas Cage (And Us) a Prisoner of His Schtick
- Review: Robin Wright's 'Land' Is A Gorgeous And Problematic Vanity Project
- Review: 'Coming Home in the Dark' Is So Scary It Literally Knocked Me Off My Seat
- Review: How 'The World To Come' Does Lesbian Period Romance Dirty
- Review: 'Marvelous And The Black Hole' Delivers A Charming Coming-Of-Age Comedy Plus Rhea Perlman As A Snarky Magician
- Review: 'A Glitch in the Matrix' Ponders The Really Real, Like Whoa
- Review: 'Night of The Kings' Offers A Radiant Tale Of Gangster And Magic
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