André Brassard’s 1974 French Canadian film Il était une fois dans l’Est (Once Upon a Time in the East), a story of cabaret drag queens in Montreal, sets the stage for the 1980s set The Man I ...

There’s a moment early in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s wondrous new film, All of a Sudden, where the camera focuses on an old photo of a woman as a pilot. There’s a matter-of-fact stillness to the image, ...

Few television soundtracks in recent memory have captured audiences quite like Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette. Packed with iconic ’90s artists ranging from Kate Bush ...

With A Woman’s Life, director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet is less interested in telling a conventional midlife crisis story than in portraying a constant state of emotional fragmentation. Her film ...

Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva has won the top award at the 65th edition of Critics Week, the Ami Paris Grand Prize, while Aina Clotet’s Viva (Alive) won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star ...

For many in America, there has been a shift over the course of the last decade, where educators have become less open to teach things to students that can be seen as controversial, radical, and ...

Let’s talk about Adèle Exarchopoulos. The French actress radiates gruff, battle-worn elegance which often conceals a bleeding vulnerability until the moment arises where she can expose it and ...

There are films that arrive carrying the weight of a social issue, and there are films that discover cinema within that issue. Laïla Marrakchi’s La Mas Dulce, premiering in the Un Certain Regard ...

You might have loved Jordan Firstman even before you knew it. Remember the ode to Laura Dern from the 2020 Spirit Awards sung by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles? That was just an inkling of ...

During the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, the programmers of the two-week prestigious event scheduled two cinematic crime thrillers for screenings at the festival, with both centering around the idea ...

Right from the start, Full Phil appears to be a movie that splits itself in two. One version is an unnerving father-daughter reunion unfolding inside an expensive Paris hotel suite. The other ...

When watching a film by director Jane Schoenbrun, one can’t help but dive back into their own past. As their protagonist Kris (Hannah Einbinder) explains their relationship to the fictional Camp ...