Although Alice Winocour’s new film Disorder works as a heartpounding home invasion thriller, it’s also a meditation on trauma, paranoia, class, and …
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Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Review: American Honey discards real emotions for pointless objectification
Though American Honey took home the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, our Cannes correspondent Elena Lazic found it cliched and problematic — a …
Personal Affairs is a sweet Palestinian comedy about women refusing to be taken for granted
Personal Affairs offers a gendered and decidedly feminist consideration of the way people can sometimes forget or refuse to treat their loved ones with the …
Cafe Society mocks and embraces backwards gender politics
Like the queasily dated Whatever Works — a film Allen wrote in the 1970s — Cafe Society insists on archaic gender politics. …
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Rams: Sheep farming is deadly serious business
Grimur Hakonarson’s Un Certain Regard-winning film Rams (Hrutar) is part dark comedy, part family drama about two elderly brothers who haven't spoken in years. …
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TIFF15 Review: Philippe Garrel’s In the Shadow of Women
In a radical departure (just kidding) from his usual subject matter, writer-director Philippe Garrel’s In the Shadow of Women tackles marital infidelity. Pierre …
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