Film Review: ‘¡Vivan las Antipodas!’
★★★★☆ The fantasy of being able to dig a hole all the way to Australia was one that sparked the imagination of many a...
★★☆☆☆ “An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,” Percy Shelley once wrote in his sonnet England in 1819. He was firing his barbs at King George III but the words could just as well be used for any number of English monarchs including Henry VIII.
★★★★★ Turkish master director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to the Cannes Croisette with About Dry Grasses, a wonderful wintry meditation on male fragility and the way we often make our own hells and then deceive ourselves that we’re trapped.
★★★★☆ From sub-Saharan Africa to Afghanistan, Syria to Iraq and Iran, the climate crisis, drought, war, and oppression has created a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. It is treated as an ethical conundrum, but it isn’t. Either we wish to save those who are in danger of dying, or all our talk of human rights is just so much hot air. This is the core concern of Green Border.
★★★★☆ With Luca Guadagnino’s terrific Challengers, the acclaimed director of Call Me By Your Name brings us the sub-genre we never knew we needed: the erotic tennis thriller.
★★☆☆☆ Directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s “Abigail” mashes up crime caper and monster movie, but fails to deliver fear or humor. Spoilery trailers and unoriginal characters overshadow promising elements, resulting in a dull, lifeless experience lacking creativity and wit.
★★☆☆☆ Maïwenn’s French period drama Jeanne du Barry is the perfect opening salvo for the 76th Cannes Film Festival. It is as glitzy and gaudy as the festival itself, with its vacuous politics drowned out by the thunderous sound of it slapping its own back.
★★★★☆ The fantasy of being able to dig a hole all the way to Australia was one that sparked the imagination of many a...
★☆☆☆☆ After catching the eye as lovable caner and Star Wars conspiracy theorist Moff in 1999’s Human Traffic, Danny Dyer’s subsequent filmography has largely...
★★☆☆☆ Released at the peak of a resurgence of interest in the John F. Kennedy assassination (it’s been fifty years Friday), Peter Landesman’s Parkland...
★★☆☆☆ It’s been some time since Robert De Niro starred in a film that could be considered a bona fide success. There have been...
★★★★☆ Indie darling Andrew Bujalski is widely considered to be the ‘godfather of mumblecore’, a movement that proffers amateur actors and slender plots designed...
★★★★☆ Garnering numerous glittering reviews and eventually pulling in a global box office gross of almost $700 million, the inaugural entry in theHunger Games...
★★☆☆☆ Adapted by Chris England from his own 2006 stage comedy of the same name and hoping to recapture some of the magic of...
★★★★☆ A well-publicised spat involving its two lead actresses and their director may have taken some of the sheen off a remarkable Palme d’Or...