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“Bones and All” Is Too Hungry to Be a Generational Touchstone
"Bones and All," the highly anticipated Luca Guadagnino film, feels like it's trying just a little too hard to speak to a certain age group. → Read More
“Funny Pages” Is a Hilarious Look at Naive Teenage Rebellion
Owen Kline's directorial debut, about a young comic-book fan, examines subculture and the ways we need to stand out while also fitting in. → Read More
“Triangle of Sadness” Wins Palme d’Or and Closes an Underwhelming Cannes
This is the latest installment of the 2022 edition of the French Dispatches, our on-the-ground coverage of the Cannes Film Festival. The Cannes awards got off to an inauspicious start on Saturday night when the first prize, Best Screenplay, went to the Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh for his Egypt-set The Boy from Heaven, one of a […] → Read More
Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” Is So Stupid, It Almost Feels Like Parody
This is the latest installment of the 2022 edition of the French Dispatches, our on-the-ground coverage of the Cannes Film Festival. Watch this space over the next fortnight for more from the 75th edition. Baz Luhrmann’s single overarching insight into pop culture is that, throughout history, it is all exactly the same. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is […] → Read More
David Cronenberg, the King of Body Horror, Returns to Cannes With the Delightfully Gross "Crimes of the Future"
The director's latest led to walkouts at the festival, but if you can stomach the gore, it's worth your time. → Read More
“Armageddon Time” and “Triangle of Sadness” Tackle Classism at Cannes
Plus: "Aftersun" becomes an early favorite at the French festival. → Read More
"Top Gun: Maverick" Is a Legacy Sequel to America
The long-awaited Tom Cruise film seeks to take your breath away with its unyielding nostalgia. → Read More
A24’s “Lamb” Is Darkly, Uniquely, Awesomely Icelandic
In Lamb, which opens today in select U.S. theaters, two grief-stricken Icelandic sheep farmers, María (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason), get a second chance at parenthood when, amid the spring lambing season, one of their ewes gives birth to a very strange creature, whom they bring from the barn to the house, raise […] → Read More
"The French Dispatch" Is the Wes Anderson-iest Wes Anderson Movie in Decades
Like so many Anderson films, "The French Dispatch" is an exercise in world-building that begs to be read as a metaphor for itself. → Read More
Laura Dern’s Rise to Lynchian Musedom Began With 1985’s “Smooth Talk”
Though her career will always be linked with the surrealist master, Dern’s turn in a forgotten 1985 classic by Joyce Chopra is where the weirdness all began → Read More
Martin Scorsese’s Right: Big Tech Is Killing Cinema
Martin Scorsese, the 78-year-old American filmmaker and film preservation advocate, has an article in the March issue of Harper’s about Federico Fellini. → Read More
Sixty Years Later, “Purple Noon” Is Still the Essential Summer Crime Thriller
The 1960 film "Purple Noon" adapted Patricia Highsmith's "The Talented Mr. Ripley" for the screen with a fantastic atmosphere and plenty of style. → Read More