After announcing a whopping number of English-language films in competition, Cannes Film Festival has added some international titles: Michel Hazanavicius‘ animated feature “The Most Precious of Cargoes” and Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof‘s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” An auteur-driven feature, “The Most Precious of Cargoes” is adapted from Jean-Claude
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An intense portrait of personal obsession — à la “Black Swan” — set at the time of 2013’s Maidan Uprising, “Olga” anticipates so much of the current situation in Ukraine. Elie Grappe’s
Right from Sundance comes the charming and sincere Cha Cha Real Smooth from director Cooper Raiff. Raiff may be only twenty-five, but his handle on snappy dialogue, complicated relationships and tackling tricky
The sequel to Top Gun ups the game – presenting an even more formulaic and glossy ad for the military than the original. Conservatives, turn that frown upside down and bask in
As “Ave Maria” begins to play, Matt Reeves boldly fills the screen with an announcement that this film is not about Bruce Wayne/Batman but The Batman – the making some sort of
With his latest film, has PTA tapped into an extraordinarily rich world or failed to do more than rummage around in LA insiders best hits? That’s the thought I wrestled with for
Whether desired or not, most of the runtime of Michel Franco‘s Sundown will be spent trying to figure out what exactly is motivating Neil Bennett to avoid returning to his life in
Does life imitate art or art imitate life? This question sits at the very center of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car – a film ultimately about human contradictions, shared grief and the