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.
Top Picks
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.
Anaïs in Love
By Caroline Ely April 29, 2022
Part of the movie’s punch can be chalked up to the sheer audacity of its titular character: a monster of self-absorption, flighty, rude, and prone to oversharing and interrupting.
Donbass
By Phil Guie April 8, 2022
A deadpan depiction of a fallen society, in which the seismic effects of war for years have yielded lawlessness and chaos.
The Rose Maker
By Wilda Williams April 1, 2022
An engaging, if familiar, cinematic bonbon that owes its appeal to Catherine Frot’s winning performance and its unusual subject, the rarified world of rose breeding and flower competitions. Oh, for the revival of Odorama!