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Film Reviews

Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.

Lindsay Pugh / June 9, 2022

Cannes Film Review: Manuela Martelli’s 1976 ratchets up the tension

Manuela Martelli’s feature debut, 1976, which she co-wrote with Alejandra Moffat, is equal parts character study and taut political drama. The film 1976 screened in the Director’s Fortnight sidebar at Cannes 2022.

Brett Pardy / June 7, 2022

Cannes Review: Naomi Kawase’s Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A

Naomi Kawase’s Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A avoids the usual tropes and cliches of sports films, focusing instead on how the athletes are rounded people, as well as the beauty fleetingness of athletic achievement

Alex Heeney / June 3, 2022

Continental Drift (South) is a biting satire and family drama

Lionel Baier’s biting yet heartfelt comedy Continental Drift tackles the migrant crisis and the consequences of personal failures of empathy.

Alex Heeney / May 27, 2022

Cannes: Marie Kreutzer’s film Corsage finds the Empress in an existential crisis

Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival, reframes the story of Empress Elisabeth of Australia (Sissi) as one of a woman trying to live up to impossible beauty standards in a patriarchal world.

Alex Heeney / May 24, 2022

Cannes: Erige Sehiri’s Under the Fig Trees is a thoughtful day Tunisian drama

Set over the course of one day, Erige Sehiri’s narrative feature debut Under the Fig Trees (Sous les figues) is a thoughtful ensemble film about the group of workers in a Tunisian fig orchard.

Alex Heeney / May 23, 2022

Cannes Review: Céline Devaux’s Everybody Loves Jeanne is a delightful anti-rom-com

Céline Devaux’s feature debut, Everybody Loves Jeanne, is wild, hilarious, sweet, and chaotic: a delightful anti-rom-com. It screened in the Cannes sidebar Semaine de la Critique.

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