Laurent Cantet’s Final Film Is A Subtly Complex Exploration Of Queer Desire That Captivated Me
Teenage rebellion takes many forms but rarely does it involve wanting to actually work. Instead of getting into trouble with his friends or lazing about his parents’ glass-walled villa, 16-year-old Enzo (Eloy Pohu) spends his days mixing concrete and laying…
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Benito Skinner’s Must-See Coming-of-Age Comedy Series Is So Much More Than Its Charli XCX Cameo
Benito Skinner — known online by his stage name “Benny Drama” — came into my life when I needed him most. Amidst the COVID pandemic, the world, and therefore, the cultural conversation, had never felt so fragmented. TikTok wasn’t the…
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This Cannes Opener Is One of the Most Grim Films About the Female Experience I’ve Ever Seen
The competition for Cannes’ Palme d’Or commences with Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling, the first of 22 films that will screen in contention for the festival’s top prize. The only solely German production (six others are co-productions with other nations),…
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Isabelle Fuhrman Anchors a Slick Survival Thriller
Unit 234 is a taut, small-scale action thriller that finds its strength in atmosphere, pace, and Isabelle Fuhrman’s committed central performance. Best known for romantic fare like Hitch and Sweet Home Alabama, director Andy Tennant makes a surprising pivot into…
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I Respected This Blisteringly Dark Comedy For Uncompromisingly Being Itself More Than I Loved It
Sister Midnight is one of the more peculiar titles entering the 2025 movie marketplace, and it certainly deserves to be on more viewers' radars. The Hindi-language movie is the feature-length directorial debut of London-based Indian artist Karan Kandhari, who also…
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A Young Man Struggles To Find Himself In Laurent Cantet’s Final Film [Cannes]
CANNES – Celebrated filmmaker Laurent Cantet passed away from cancer a little over a year ago. He’d won the Palme d’Or in 2008 for “The Class,” and his final directorial effort was intended to be “Enzo,” a portrait of a…
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Cassian’s Story Reaches the Beginning of the End
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Andor Season 2 Episode 12.Approximately six years and six months after Andor was first announced, the series has officially reached its end. The final episode, penned by Tom Bissell and directed by…
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Cassian Orchestrates a Dangerous Rescue Mission With a Little Help From His Friends
Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Andor Season 2 Episode 11. Kleya Marki (Elizabeth Dulau) remains the heart of Andor’s final arc as Episode 11 picks up in the immediate aftermath of Luthen Rael’s (Stellan Skarsgård) tragic death. Even…
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I Feel Like This Show Is Never Going To Stop Stringing Me Along
I'm such a huge fan of The Rookie, but my main criticism this season has been that there hasn't been a lot of closure to the main storylines. Chenford is still an incredibly slow-burn romance, and big villains Monica Stevenson…
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The Final Arc Begins on a Devastating Note
Editor's note: The below recap.contains spoilers for Andor Season 2 Episode 10. Andor has officially reached its final arc — and it's perhaps the most devastating out of the batch. The weight of Rogue One has been present from the…
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Gnarly Deaths and Tense Atmosphere Put This Stagnant Horror Franchise Back on Top
A slasher movie where the killer is the invisible force of death sounds like an idea spoken at 3 am at a frat party. How could audiences be made scared by something they can’t see? And yet, 25 years and…
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Cannes Opens With A Fuzzy French Musical That Leads With Easy Emotions
In Leave One Day , Cécile (Juliette Armanet) is a celebrity chef, famed for her stints on Top Chef and her lobster bisque soufflé, but when she finds out she is pregnant just before news of her father's heart attack…
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