This Cannes Opener Is One of the Most Grim Films About the Female Experience I’ve Ever Seen

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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),…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Coming of Age in Stilettos

In her directorial debut Summer of 69, Jillian Bell aims to create a raunchy yet heartfelt comedy about growing up, sexual identity, and female friendship—but in trying to juggle all of its themes, tones, and character arcs, the film often loses…

Fight or Flight Review: High-Altitude Hijinks Fall Flat

James Madigan’s Fight or Flight wants to soar—but it’s flying on borrowed wings. An action-comedy hybrid that traps its characters on a cross-Pacific flight teeming with assassins, espionage, and sardonic banter, the film sets itself up as a spiritual successor…

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