Cannes 2025: The Secret Agent, The Love That Remains, Magellan
The scope of Cannes expands and contracts with three films that either peer into hometowns or box in their cinematic frames.
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Lookin’s Free: Joe Don Baker (1936-2025)
On the celebrated character actor, who walked tall through Westerns, crime pictures, and spy flicks for 60 years.
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Hot Docs 2025 Review: SPARE MY BONES, COYOTE! Illuminates the Human Cost of Border Crossings
Jonah Malak reframes the U.S.-Mexico border as a landscape of absence and loss. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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BRING HER BACK Review: The Philippou Brothers Deliver Another Masterclass in Horror
Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou wrote and directed their new thriller. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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“Nine Perfect Strangers’” Second Season is Less Insightful, Still Somewhat Fun
“Nine Perfect Strangers” started as a maximalist show, with Nicole Kidman bewitching those around her as Masha Dmitrichenko, the Eastern Bloc wellness entrepreneur who promised personal transformation with her custom psychedelic therapies. The second season duplicates that formula with a...
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Cannes Review: Eagles of the Republic is a Playful Comedy-Thriller About an Egyptian Movie Star
George Fahmy (Fares Fares) is an A-list movie star of the highest order, something Eagles of the Republic establishes at the jump. We open on him with a beautiful woman in a convertible on a soundstage, wrapping a glamorous film...
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Meteors | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Male Friendship Comes Apart In Hubert Charuel’s Assured Sophomore Feature A meteorite enters Earth’s atmosphere moving up to 72 kilometers per second and (usually) burns up before striking the ground. Best friends Mika (Paul Kircher) and Daniel (Idir Azougli) seem...
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Cannes Review: The Phoenician Scheme Finds Wes Anderson Losing the Plot in Breakneck, Tiresome Spy Comedy
We begin with music that’s uncharacteristically tense for a Wes Anderson film––chugging cellos leading a full orchestra that’s more Mission: Impossible than Moonrise Kingdom––and opener à la Nolan blockbusters: an assassination attempt. It’s an exhilarating launch into a story that...
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4K Restoration Trailer for Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse Explores the Tumultuous Making of Francis Ford Coppola’s War Epic
It was just a week ago that we got news that Mike Figgis’ documentary Megadoc, exploring the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-works passion project Megalopolis, would be arriving in theaters. First, however, one of the greatest portraits of moviemaking...
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The Richest Woman in the World | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Biggest Camel: Klifa Recruits Huppert to Spoof the Bettencourt Affair Thierry Klifa, who continues to work some of the most notable grand dames of contemporary French cinema, including Nathalie Baye and Catherine Deneuve, courts Isabelle Huppert as the headliner...
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