Following Ida and Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski returned to Cannes this month with Fatherland, a drama starring Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler, which earned him a Best Director prize. Ahead of a fall release from MUBI, the first trailer and poster have now arrived. Here’s the synopsis: “FATHERLAND centers on the relationship between the Nobel […]
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A slippery character study and staggering sensory experience, Milagros Mumenthaler’s The Currents was one of my favorite discoveries of last year’s New York Film Festival. It opens on an Argentinian designer named Lina (Isabel Aimé González Sola), who survives a leap off a bridge while visiting Switzerland, and her life is altered as the pressures […]
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It starts as a gag. Pepa (Núria Prims) rings to apologize to her mother and believes it is she who picks up the phone. Her teenage daughter Cata (Zoe Stein) plays along, pretending to answer as she assumes her grandmother would, until her mother finally catches on and says her name. When it happens again, […]
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Far and away one of the highlights of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival (landing on nearly all top 10 lists from our critics), Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow follow-up Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a wildly entertaining exploration of the slasher film, erotic pleasure, and everything in between. Led by […]
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Following Matt Johnson’s Anthony Bourdain drama Tony, A24’s subsequent release is another unconventional biopic, this time following the story of To Catch a Predator‘s Chris Hansen. In Primetime, Robert Pattinson plays the television host and investigative journalist for director Lance Oppenheim, marking his narrative feature debut after Some Kind of Heaven and Spermworld. Ahead of […]
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Kane Parsons has one hell of an origin story: a YouTuber from an extremely early age who taught himself how to create visual effects with Blender software during the COVID lockdown, he arrived on the other side with a fully formed horror series that became a viral sensation. He was nowhere close to graduating high […]
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Can you make an engaging film about predicting the weather? Pressure, directed by Anthony Maras, answers this question in the affirmative. Set mere days before D-Day is set to commence, General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) needs an accurate forecast to ensure the operation will commence as planned. The film’s stark opening minutes portray the […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. The film opens in theaters and is available digitally on May 29. “The world is full of people,” states the anonymous narrator of Anders Thomas Jensen’s The Last Viking as an opening, hand-drawn animation tells a rather disturbing tale: there once was […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 SXSW coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 29. A film squarely in the wheelhouse of co-writer and director John Carney, Power Ballad plays the hits with a few heartfelt twists. It leans into the natural chemistry of its leads while exploring the […]
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The 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has now concluded, with Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord taking home the Palme d’Or (see all jury winners here). While our coverage will continue with a few more reviews this week––then far beyond, as we update on the journey of these selections––we’ve asked our on-the-ground contributors to share favorites. […]
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