The Monk and the Gun
By Jeffery Berg February 8, 2024
A buoyant parable that manages to portray messy, complicated matters like democracy in a deft, light-to-the-touch, yet complex manner.
A buoyant parable that manages to portray messy, complicated matters like democracy in a deft, light-to-the-touch, yet complex manner.
Writer/director Emerald Fennell dares you not to clutch your pearls.
Sebastián Silva’s meta-fiction is one of the funnier and adventurous comedies of the year so far.
As usual, Wes Anderson’s new film is sumptuous to look at and an amazing feat of artistry by his team of costumers, set decorators, and miniature model makers.
Obviously improvised by its adult cast members to the point of repetition, the flabby film rambles on, like an uninspired Saturday Night Live sketch.
A ruthless, barbed-wire black comedy and social satire with razor sharp performances.
A stimulating example of giving-it-all filmmaking for art’s sake that might not be perfect or cohesive, but it’s restless fun and uncompromising.
Five years after writer/director Ruben Östlund won the Palme d’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, he triumphed again with his latest darkly satiric romp.
As an auteur filmmaker, Penélope Cruz presumably sends up the directors that she’s surely had to contend with in her career.