Decision to Leave – Review Alysha Prasad October 23, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in June 2022 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave (Heojil kyolshim) follows a murder investigation headed by the highly...
Broker – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Review Alysha Prasad June 30, 2022 Reviews The newest South Korean drama, Broker, written and directed by the great Hirokazu Kore-eda introduces us to Sang-hyeon (Song Kang-ho) and Dong-soo (Gang Dong-won), who steal babies from a church's baby box to...
Elvis – Review Alysha Prasad June 24, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in June 2022 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Baz Luhrmann’s spectacular, bedazzled musical biopic, Elvis, follows the life and career of actor and musician...
Everything Went Fine – Review Alysha Prasad June 18, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes coverage. François Ozon’s touching film Everything Went Fine (Tout S'est Bien Passé) begins just after 85-year-old André (André...
Crimes of the Future – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Review Alysha Prasad June 2, 2022 Reviews Film auteur David Cronenberg is back at last with his newest sexy body horror, Crimes of the Future, which was arguably the most anticipated film premiering at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Along with...
Close – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Review Alysha Prasad June 2, 2022 Reviews Lukas Dhont’s Belgian drama, Close, stars Eden Dambrine and Gustav de Waele as Léo and Rémi, two thirteen-year-old boys on the precipice of adolescence with a fiercely strong bond that seems inseparable...
Triangle of Sadness Review – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 29, 2022 Reviews Repeat after me: "Money! Money! MONEY!" Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness stars Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean as Carl and Yaya, a hot model couple who just can’t stop arguing about who should pay...
R.M.N. Review – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 29, 2022 Reviews Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. stars Marin Grigore as Matthias, who returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village after quitting his job. in Germany and reunites with his son, Rudi (Mark Blenyesi), and his old...
Armageddon Time Review – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 29, 2022 Reviews James Gray’s highly anticipated Armageddon Time is a coming-of-age memoir set in the 80’s based on Gray’s experience growing up in Queens, New York, as told through the life of Paul Graff (Banks Repeta)...
Tchaikovsky’s Wife Review – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 29, 2022 Reviews The turbulent marriage between Russia’s most famous composer, Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Odin Lund Biron), and his wife, Antonina Miliukova (Alyona Mikhailova), is the focus of Kirill Serebrennikov’s historical...
Final Cut – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 18, 2022 Reviews Michel Hazanavicius’ meta zombie flick Final Cut (Coupez!), a French-language remake of Shin'ichirō Ueda’s 2017 cult film, One Cut of the Dead, opens this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Set in a disused...
The Worst Person in the World – Review Alysha Prasad March 25, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. A film that’s told in twelve parts, as well as a prologue and an epilogue, Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person...
Cow – Review Alysha Prasad January 14, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Andrea Arnold’s newest film, Cow, documents the daily lives of two cows, Luma and her recently born calf whose...
Titane – Review Alysha Prasad December 24, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Julia Ducournau, French director of the bloody 2016 masterpiece, Raw, graces Cannes Film Festival once more with...
Annette – Review Alysha Prasad November 26, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Green and red. Leos Carax’s rock opera, Annette, features the self-proclaimed “Ape of God” Henry McHenry...