Reviews
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‘Lula’ Review: Oliver Stone’s Portrait of Brazil’s President Captures a Remarkable Story
Cannes 2024: The legendary director’s latest provides what should only be the start of reflections on Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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‘Horizon: An American Saga’ Review: Kevin Costner Unveils a Sprawling, Old-Fashioned Western
Cannes 2024: The first of a projected four movies is a corny, rousing epic for people who say they don’t make ’em like that anymore
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‘Jim Henson Idea Man’ Review: Ron Howard Takes a Loving, Honest Look at Muppets Creator
Cannes 2024: Skillful, honest and sympathetic, this is the kind of film you’d want about Jim Henson
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‘Emilia Perez’ Review: Jacques Audiard’s Gonzo Telenovela About a Trans Kingpin Is a Home Run
Cannes 2024: The French director’s latest is a big swing that hits the ball out of the park
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‘Caught by the Tides’ Review: Jia Zhangke Stands Up for China but Watches Things Fall Apart
Cannes 2024: The film is an elegy of sorts, at times angry and abrasive but more often gentle and reflective
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‘Universal Language’ Review: Matthew Rankin’s Wonderfully Absurdist Vision Is Mirthful and Melancholic
Cannes 2024: This audacious comedy is as delightfully funny as it is subtly reflective
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‘Three Kilometres to the End of the World’ Review: Emanuel Parvu Examines Reactionary Conservatism From the Inside
Cannes 2024: The actor-turned-director peers into an insular Romanian community in the aftermath of a hate crime
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‘Oh, Canada’ Review: Paul Schrader Gets the Better of Himself in Richard Gere Reunion
Cannes 2024: The “First Reformed” filmmaker’s latest is a head-scratcher – and not in a good way
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‘An Unfinished Film’ Review: This Pandemic Portrait of Moviemaking, Loss and Community Is Crushing
Cannes 2024: Lou Ye’s latest film is one of the few about the pandemic to get it right
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‘Kinds of Kindness’ Review: Yorgos Lanthimos Brings Back Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe for a Surreal Creep-Fest
Cannes 2024: “The Favourite” and “Poor Things” were fun, but this trio of dark and disturbing stories is old-style Lanthimos
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‘The Big Cigar’ Review: Apple TV+ Limited Series Should’ve Been a Movie
André Holland provides the best moments from a six-episode drama that should’ve been told in a different way
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‘Megalopolis’ Review: Francis Ford Coppola’s Epic Sprawl Is Grandiose and Goofy
Cannes 2024: This is a project of operatic pronouncements, didactic repetitions and mad artistic ambitions – quite a few realized, just as many not
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‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ Review: African Story Slips Between Fable and Hard Reality
Cannes 2024: Rungano Nyoni’s follow-up to “I Am Not a Witch” is timely, but it also exists completely out of time
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‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’ Review: Tamara Isn’t Here, and Neither Are the Scares
Renny Harlin’s reboot of the classic horror thriller asks the question, “What if it was really bad?”
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‘Bird’ Review: Andrea Arnold’s Arresting, Surreal Drama Soars
Cannes 2024: Franz Rogowski and Nykiya Adams anchor a touching coming-of-age tale with a big swing
