She Will
By Paul Weissman July 14, 2022
A thriller that starts off feeling like a classic gothic horror update and unexpectedly ends as a post-feminist revenge flick, with Alice Krige giving a master class performance.
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Queen of Glory
By Kirsten Anderson
In Nana Mensah’s winning and heartfelt debut film, you can go home again; part of you never left.
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
By Paul Weissman June 30, 2022
A music documentary that succeeds in being quite a few things at once: a biography/appreciation and an examination of a now ubiquitous song.
Lost Illusions
By Caroline Ely June 10, 2022
A lush yet propulsive story of a writer’s rise and fall in 19th-century Paris that moves fast and is loads of fun.
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.
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.
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.
Happening
By Caroline Ely May 6, 2022
Few movies can be as topical right now as Happening. It plunges us back to the rotten old days when there were almost zero options out of an unwanted pregnancy.