Steven Spielberg is, inarguably, one of America’s most recognizable filmmakers in cinema history. This is not always indicative of a particular level of quality. We have all talked about the auteur ...

So this is how the world ends: not with a bang, but with a bunch of French politicians arguing with each other in a meeting ...

It was notable at this year’s Cannes how many movies re-examined France and the Second World War. It’s been obvious for some years now how the French film industry has been retelling its own stories ...

The best film of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival premiered out of competition. La Bataille de Gaulle: L’Âge de Fer, which has the English title De Gaulle: Résistance, is an absolute triumph of cinema.

Winner of the Orrizonti Award for Best Film at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival, On the Road (En el Camino) is, at its core, a poignant tale of repressed desire bursting in the most ...

Playing out of competition at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival, Nova ‘78, from the directing duo of Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias, functions both as a moving paean to the enduring greatness of ...

It’s still somewhat unusual for movies out of China to be made in one of their quote-unquote minority languages, and it’s a bit odd to refer to Teochew, which has approximately 20 million speakers, as ...

Shereford, New Hampshire is the kind of small town that makes other small towns envious. There’s a perfect little main street, all of two full-time cops (and a third part-time one), and the local rich ...

It makes no sense when a movie spoils itself through its own marketing. The central relationship in Washed Up has a twist that you probably haven’t been able to avoid! This is a giant mistake, because ...

Silver Star, a determinedly quirky little movie, is a throwback to the indie cinema of the nineties in the best way. It stands and falls entirely on the actions of two unpredictable people, thrown ...

The Secret Agent won two major awards at this year’s Cannes film festival, Best Director for Kleber Mendonça Filho and Best Actor for Wagner Moura, an unusual and enormous compliment. The Secret Agent ...

During the Berlinale I swung by photography museum C|O Berlin to look at their exhibit of work by Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide (running until June 2026, and recommended). Her most famous ...