Revoir Paris (Paris Memories) | Cannes Film Festival 2022
By Kent Turner May 29, 2022
It took 10 days to find this personal favorite at this year’s festival.
Festivals
Decision to Leave | Cannes Film Festival 2022
By Kent Turner May 28, 2022
The most entertaining and slick genre film at Cannes, and among the few in this year’s competition where a woman really held all the cards.
Fogo-Fátuo (Will-o’-the-Whisp) | Cannes Film Festival 2022
By Kent Turner May 27, 2022
The most audacious, funniest, and unpredictable work seen at this year’s festival.
Moonage Daydream | Cannes Film Festival 2022
By Kent Turner May 26, 2022
A documentary love letter to David Bowie and a blast of wall-to-wall music from his 50-year career.
Aftersun | Cannes Film Festival 2022
By Kent Turner May 25, 2022
Director Charlotte Wells has struck gold with her young discovery, Frankie Corio, who delivered one of the best and most lived-in performances in the festival’s entire lineup.
I Love My Dad | SXSW 2022
By Kent Turner March 21, 2022
This cringey comedy may be the best unofficial sequel to the 2010 documentary Catfish.
Your Friend, Memphis | SXSW 2022
By Kent Turner March 18, 2022
A frank and at times discomforting, in-depth portrait of young man who has cerebral palsy.
Reflection; Babi Yar. Context | MoMI’s First Look Festival
By Phil Guie
Two Ukrainian films are reminders that the current situation in Eastern Europe isn’t unprecedented at all, but history sadly repeating itself.
The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic | SXSW 2020
By Kent Turner March 17, 2022
The film nimbly becomes a thriller without shedding its established rhythm. Before you know it, the tone has turned uncomfortably ominous.