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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Saeed Roustayi’s ‘Woman and Child’
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee (also spelled Saeed Roustayi – I know its annoying) became part of the Cannes family when he gave us the competition title Leila’s Brothers back in 2022 (read ★★ review). For his fourth feature film, we...
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Resurrection | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
In Dreams: Gan Explores a Century of the Cinematic Syndrome We are such stuff as dreams (and celluloid) are made on, according to the sumptuous third film Resurrection from Bi Gan. The title is itself something of a misnomer, concerned...
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THE SURRENDER Review: Call Your Mother. Or Face Black Magic Horror.
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
Colby Minifie and Kate Burton star in writer/director Julia Max's horror thriller, now streaming on Shudder. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Review: A Rote Standalone Slasher in the ‘Fear Street’ Series
by admin|1 month ago|Slant Magazine
Like its predecessors, the film is an often awkward mix of YA drama and R-rated gore. The post ‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Review: A Rote Standalone Slasher in the ‘Fear Street’ Series appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Cannes Review: Sentimental Value Thrives on Joachim Trier and Renate Reinsve’s Inimitable Chemistry
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
Over a delicately structured, Mike Mills-ian montage of Nora Berg’s (Renate Reinsve) personal heritage––30-odd years of an Oslo native’s existence relayed in a sparse collection of seminal moments, feelings, and thoughts, then layered into the lives and characteristics of those...
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Woman and Child | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
All the Regime Allows: Roustaee Finds a Woman Scorned If there were ever an equivalent to the Hollywood ‘woman’s film’ genre in Iranian cinema it might be Woman and Child, the latest film from Saeed Roustaee, which puts its main...
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Every ‘Mission: Impossible’ Movie, Ranked
by admin|1 month ago|Slant Magazine
Mission: Impossible is the perfect embodiment of Tom Cruise’s illegible reputation. The post Every ‘Mission: Impossible’ Movie, Ranked appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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SENTIMENTAL VALUE
by admin|1 month ago|Hammer to Nail
(Check out Savina Petkova’s Sentimental Value movie review. The film just had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Renate Reinsve has once again captured Cannes audiences’ hearts, four years...
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Cannes 2025: Sentimental Value, Romería, The History of Sound
by admin|1 month ago|Roger Ebert
Two highs and a low mark our latest dispatch from the festival.
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KILLER OF SHEEP Blu-ray Review: The Future in a Handful of Concrete Dust
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
When most people think of American cinema of the 1970s, they focus on New Hollywood, the era of brash independent cinema that blew the roof off the old studio system and offered a more grimy, realistic, intimate look across a...
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