Monday, June 30, 2025

Festivals

Semaine de la Critique, Cannes 2025: Capsules

The Semaine de la Critique (or Critics’ Week) at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival had plenty of unrecognized gems. Every year, it tends to happen: this sidebar of the acclaimed festival often...

Quinzaine des Cinéastes: Cannes 2025: Capsules

Some of the most inspired and creative voices in modern cinema have debuted or premiered their films at the Cannes Film Festival sidebar Quinzaine des cinéastes (or Directors’ Fortnight). Although this isn’t...

Eight Can’t-Miss Titles From The 2025 Tribeca Festival Lineup

Six months have passed since this year’s iteration of Sundance kicked off the 2025 festival calendar, and though Cannes is only a few weeks behind cinephiles (and souls aplenty have still yet...

Movie Review (Cannes 2025): In ‘Resurrection’, Bi Gan Reimagines the Language of Cinematic Dreams

Director: Bi GanWriters: Bi GanStars: Jackson Yee, Shu Qi, Mark Chao Synopsis: A woman's consciousness falls into an eternal time zone during a surgical procedure. Trapped in many dreams, she finds the corpse...

Movie Review (Cannes 2025): Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’ is an Intimate Look at Memory and Reconciliation

Director: Joachim TrierWriters: Joachim Trier, Eskil VogtStars: Renata Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas Synopsis: An intimate exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art. Joachim Trier and longtime collaborator Eskil Vogt...

Movie Review (Cannes 2025): Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Is a Passionate, Flawed Tribute to Brooklyn and His Collaborations with Denzel Washington

Director: Spike LeeWriter: Evan Hunter, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo OguniStars: Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, A$AP Rocky Synopsis: When a titan music mogul is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a...

Movie Review (Cannes 2025): Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’ Turns Pain Into Poetry

Director: Mascha ShilinskiWriters: Louise Peter, Mascha Shilinski Stars: Hanna Heckt, Lena Urzendowsky, Susanne Wuest Synopsis: A remote German farm harbors generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth...

Jafar Panahi: The Director Who Refuses To Be Silenced

With the Palme d’Or win for his latest movie, It Was Just An Accident, Iranian director Jafar Panahi joins an elite class of directors who’ve won the big three festival prizes at...

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