Reviews
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‘A Useful Ghost’ Review: Davika Hoorne Is a Spectacular Supernatural Vacuum in Bold Drama
Cannes 2025: Writer/director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s feature debut is a wondrous festival discovery that’ll stick with you
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‘The Chronology of Water’ Review: Kristen Stewart’s Expansive, Evocative Work of Cinematic Poetry
Cannes 2025: Imogen Poots gives a career-best performance in this bold adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir
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‘Bono: Stories of Surrender’ Review: U2 Frontman’s Life Story Is Grand and Bombastic, the Way We Like It
Cannes 2025: The singer and his director, Andrew Dominik, use startling visuals and reimagined songs to make this glorious mashup of life and music
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‘Eddington’ Review: Ari Aster Reunites With Joaquin Phoenix – and Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal – in Risqué Political Fantasia
Cannes 2025: What begins as a surprisingly genteel send-up of pandemic-era fever-dreams finds more satisfying footing by letting loose to fully embody that mania
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‘The Little Sister’ Review: Nadia Melliti Is a Magnificent Discovery In Delicate Queer Drama
Cannes 2025: Hafsia Herzi’s film is a character study that marks the arrival of an exciting new talent
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‘Bring Her Back’ Review: Sally Hawkins Horrifies in A24’s Tale of Death and Abuse
The Oscar-nominated star plays a foster mother with unholy plans for her kids in the second film from the directors of “Talk to Me”
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‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Review: Glorious Gorefest Is 100% Pure Cinema
The sixth “Final Destination” film delivers awe-inspiring, demonically funny shocks — a night at the movies doesn’t get much better
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‘Amrum’ Review: Can This Poignant Drama Make You Ache for a Member of the Hitler Youth?
Cannes 2025: Director Fatih Akin does a wonderfully understated job of setting the innocence and the cruelty of childhood against the fall of fascism
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‘Sirât’ Review: Techno-Fueled Road Movie Is ‘Mad Max’ Without the Stunts or the Fun
Cannes 2025: Oliver Laxe has made one of a growing number of Cannes films that suggest that we live in dark, dangerous and troubled times
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‘Case 137’ Review: A Perfectly Fine Yet Inessential Examination of Police Brutality
Cannes 2025: Dominik Moll’s French drama “Dossier 137” wouldn’t feel out of place as a Very Austere Episode of “Loi & Ordre”
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‘Left-Handed Girl’ Review: Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker Make a Bittersweet Family Dramedy
Cannes 2025: This winning feature proves Shih-Ching Tsou is a talented filmmaker in her own right
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‘Death Does Not Exist’ Review: Stunning but Slippery Animated Feature Confronts Love in the Shadow of Death
Cannes 2025: Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s film is an intentionally murky meditation on mortality and survivor’s guilt
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‘Two Prosecutors’ Review: Film About Russian Corruption Is Set in 1937, But You Know It’s Timely
Cannes 2025: Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s drama is a quietly horrifying descent into a Kafkaesque nightmare where doing the right thing might be the riskiest choice of all
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‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Review: A Tribute to Tom Cruise by Tom Cruise
Epic stunts balance out the convoluted script and shameless adulation of its producer and star
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‘Sound of Falling’ Review: Cannes Competition Kicks Off With a Time-Hopping Mood Board
Cannes 2025: Mascha Schilinski’s dense and maddening film jumps between four adolescent girls over the course of a century on a German farm
