Cinema Curator

If “Barbie” gave Mattel a new sense of confidence about turning old, crusty toy boxes into theatrical IP, “Masters of the Universe” feels like one win corroded into unearned ego. […]

History buffs never hunger for World War II content since year after year a previously unexplored crevice of the conflict or a new angle on a well-known event is explored […]

Like conceptual architecture—seductive, striking from a distance, but often impractical once someone has to actually live inside it—most internet-born horror phenomena can’t survive the transition into real-world feature filmmaking. Built […]

There exists an unusual subgenre in which a protagonist sustains some manner of injury—a blow to the head, electrocution, what have you—only to awaken in a world they no longer […]

At her young age, Inés (Maya O’Rourke) is the keeper of numerous secrets. Some she wishes she could divulge; others she treasures as proof of the trust she inspires in […]

France’s past as a country that collaborated with the Nazis has long been an obscured or minimized aspect of its history, with the Resistance and General De Gaulle’s calls from […]

Quentin Dupieux’s return to France after his 2014 Los Angeles-set film “Reality” was more than a homecoming. Ever since 2018’s “Keep an Eye Out,” his first film shot in his […]

Ancient Hawaiians’ relationship to the ocean is depicted in desaturated tones during the opening of the animated feature “In Waves.” For a while, the film’s passages to this earlier time […]

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur,” a domestic drama that gradually hardens into a grim, gripping thriller, is about a great many things. Its central narrative turns on a broken marriage, infidelity, and […]

Michael Schur built one of the great endings of contemporary television with “The Good Place” by defying the allure of immortality. At the height of platitude, William Jackson Harper’s Chidi […]

It feels natural to expect blood-dripping gore and reckless violence from a film titled “Victorian Psycho,” but, with his latest, Zachary Wigon chooses instead to lure the audience with the […]

Perhaps my favorite weird tidbit from the Cannes Film Festival is the Palm Dog Award. While not officially sanctioned by the festival, it nevertheless has become a decades-long institution: an […]

Hollywood still doesn’t understand the bridge, the middle eight. In music, it’s the emotional crescendo before the final chorus, the part of a classic song that hits once and compels […]

CANNES – In a historic year for gay themed films at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, one thing sets apart Lukas Dhont’s “Coward” from the rest. It’s not two men […]

CANNES – Three queer men connected across time. Three storylines intertwined. All while the Spanish Civil War is omnipresent, almost haunting the proceedings. This is the crux of Javier Ambrossi […]

CANNES – Ira Sachs never makes it easy. He’s an auteur who works in cinematic frequencies that don’t always align with what an audience might expect. He may frustrate you […]

Kantemir Balagov, whose “Beanpole” made waves on the international festival circuit in 2019, returns to Cannes with his third feature and one of the year’s most anticipated films, “Butterfly Jam.” […]

Tatiana Maslany is such an extraordinary talent that it’s hard to remember just how few projects she’s led since her breakout performance (performances) in the sci-fi mystery, “Orphan Black”. But […]

It feels both banal and inevitable to draw a comparison between Félix de Givry’s directorial feature debut “Goodbye Cruel World,” which closes Critics’ Week at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, […]

It took Hungarian director László Nemes seven years to return to filmmaking after 2018’s “Sunset,” while only a few months separate his Venice-selected “Orphan” from his newest Cannes competition affair, […]