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Paper Tiger | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
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In the Forests of the Night: Gray Frames Fearful Symmetry Had James Gray been prolific during the glory days of New Hollywood from the late 1960s through the 1970s, he would have been cemented as an iconoclast among the likes...
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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s ‘The Beloved’
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In a cinema that has worked with themes of escalating moral and psychological pressures, corruption of institutions and personal ethics, with a dash of emotional obsession and destructive intimacy, Rodrigo Sorogoyen makes his first trip to the competition section with...
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The Beloved (El ser querido) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
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What’s Love Got to Do with It?: Sorogoyen Visualizes Dysfunction & Creative Catharsis Although it’s a familiar trope, an absent father utilizing a complex ruse to reunite with a child abandoned from a previous relationship, Rodrigo Sorogoyen distills potential extremes...
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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘Sheep in the Box’
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The VIP jacket wearing Hirokazu Kore-eda is one of Cannes’ most regular presences, with seven films selected over the years and one Palme d’Or under his belt. So far he has showcased 2001’s Distance, 2004’s Nobody Knows (which won Best...
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Cannes 2026 Video #4: Festival Dispatch with Zachary Lee
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In this video dispatch, Scott Dummler interviews correspondent Zachary Lee about some of his highlights from the fest, from "Karma" to a restoration screening of Ken Russell's "The Devils."
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Cannes Review: All of a Sudden Is Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Most Empathetic, Humanist Film to Date
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“Are healthy people truly alive?” It is early into All of a Sudden when Marie-Lou (Virginie Efira) hears the question that rings as a tagline for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s new feature. The head of a private Parisian clinic for the elderly,...
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‘Diary of a Chambermaid’ Review: Radu Jude’s Despondent, Biting Adaptation of a Classic
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Jude’s “variation on” Octave Mirbeau’s novel is an exuberant hodgepodge of genre modes. The post ‘Diary of a Chambermaid’ Review: Radu Jude’s Despondent, Biting Adaptation of a Classic appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘Manas’ Review: Marianna Brennand’s Somber, Oddly Impersonal Portrait of Child Abuse
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There isn’t much room in Brennand’s film for contradiction or ambiguity. The post ‘Manas’ Review: Marianna Brennand’s Somber, Oddly Impersonal Portrait of Child Abuse appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘I Love Boosters’ Review: Boots Riley’s Exhaustingly Surreal Anti-Capitalist Satire
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The film feels like a circus act, a well-dressed elephant on a unicycle juggling a dozen balls. The post ‘I Love Boosters’ Review: Boots Riley’s Exhaustingly Surreal Anti-Capitalist Satire appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Cannes 2026: John Lennon: The Last Interview, La Libertad Doble
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On two very different Cannes offerings, including one by Steven Soderbergh.
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