The ways in which adults make decisions on behalf of children, and how those decisions are, or aren’t, in the child’s best interests are the stuff of life. This wonderful movie begins with questioning what it takes to be an artist, and ends by questioning what it means to be …
Dan Fogelman’s political thriller returns for a second season, reimagining itself as a post-apocalyptic drama more akin to The Last Of Us. It’s a season full of twists that even the most avid TV watcher won’t expect, as the writers continue to take risks that mostly pay off. In season …
There are some movies, including Queen at Sea, which are so disturbing they can only be watched once. Fortunately Queen at Sea is so well made that its care and consideration makes its brutally tough topic easier to handle. This is why it won the Silver Bear Jury Prize at …
In 1980 Lily Tomlin was faced with a dilemma. She was riding high after winning a Tony with her one-woman play The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and then starring in feminist revenge comedy 9 to 5, but then she had to do her next thing. …
The Brazilian director Gabe Klinger has built his career entirely in the United States. Based in Chicago, he directed the documentary Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater, Porto, and the short film Bergman’s Ghosts, a complementary work to Bergman Island, the Cannes film by Mia Hansen-Løve. For the first …
I think we can blame the English royal family. When TV shows like Succession, The Righteous Gemstones and Yellowstone decide to examine the interpersonal struggle for power within an unbelievable wealthy family, they’ve all worked from the same template: tyrannical father and absent or dead mother with three sons and …
The first series in a name chronology series from super-producer Ryan Murphy follows the tragic romance of JFK’s son, John F Kennedy, and publicist Carolyn Bessette. Based on Elizabeth Beller’s book Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, the limited series charts the couple’s whirlwind romance, marriage …
Talk about melodrama! It is not so much that this adaption of Wuthering Heights goes to eleven, but that this version of Wuthering Heights starts at eleven and keeps going and going, and going, without losing its momentum for a moment. This over-the-top depiction of secret and dangerous passion makes …
The representation of queerness in the past decade on TV has found itself on an uptick. Shows like Heartstopper, Queer Eye, Modern Family, and Schitt’s Creek have led the charge in normalising the existence of queer people on television, and therefore in life. Despite the challenges the queer characters face …
Already the second film adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s 1954 coming-of-age novel of the same name, Bonjour Tristesse, a debut feature by Canadian director Durga Chew-Bose, offers a modern, feminist spin on the original material, which was an overnight sensation written by the French novelist at age 18. Remakes can become …
In this year’s Cannes Film Festival, a post-screening reaction surprised tons of cinephiles following the festival’s attendees. Despite premiering after a veteran French filmmaker, Dominik Moll, with his Case 137, the most talked-about film of the second day of the festival was Sirât by the French-Spanish director, Oliver Laxe. In …
Ameer Fakher Eldin’s Yunan begins with the exasperated breaths of its protagonist, Munir (Georges Khabbaz), who, in the doctor’s office, is getting his lungs examined. Nothing is wrong with them, yet Munir consistently has difficulty catching his breath or even breathing normally. His doctor believes it might be psychological and …
Whereas Kelly Reichardt’s latest indie fare The Mastermind, a character study of an arguably decent criminal shot 1970s-style, starring the brilliant and now ubiquitous Josh O’Connor, tersely eviscerates our notion of a crime/heist movie — though the resulting picture feels rather coiled — Gus Van Sant’s comeback feature Dead Man’s …
After making its premiere in the Orizzonti competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Ali Asgari’s latest feature Divine Comedy is set to make its Philippine debut as part of the 13th edition of the QCinema International Film Festival, running November 14 to 23. The film, which takes a metatextual …
The best thing about Girls & Boys is one of the main characters is trans and absolutely no one blinks an eye at this. This is not something that could be said when I ran around Dublin, back when just being a member of the gay student clubs was an …
The Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason is one of the most fascinating voices in the current European cinema. Known for his 2022 film Godland (Vanskabte land), a project about a young Danish priest traveling to the remote parts of Iceland. It premiered at that year’s Un Certain Regard of the Cannes …
Originally titled Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen, which translates as “Longing in Sangerhausen,” Julian Radlmaier’s latest feature and Locarno 2025 in-competition entry Phantoms of July unfolds as a spirited absurdist dramedy set in the titular mining town that formed part of East Germany prior to reunification. It is the kind of movie …
Filmes de Plástico (which translates to plastic films) is a Brazilian production company based in the outskirts of Contagem, in the greater Belo Horizonte, one of Brazil’s largest capitals. The city is primarily a refuge for the working class, where rentals are less expensive than in the capital, which is …
In the history of cinema, the Anglo-Saxon perspective has been the most prominent in mainstream filmmaking. As society seems to include and understand diverse ethnicities, different ethnicities may develop their own viewpoints of reality. Unfortunately, the Palestinian history told by its people took plenty of time to get an opportunity, …
Lucile Hadžihalilović has only four works in her filmography, but each of her new releases draws attention from the audience. Directing her feature debut, Innocence, in 2004, starring Marion Cotillard, the Bosnian filmmaker established a connection with the Toronto Film Festival, where she premiered her subsequent two films: Evolution and Earwig. …