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Emilia Pérez: The Best-Ever Musical Thriller About a Transgender Cartel Boss and the Sisterhood of Crime

Emilia Pérez: The Best-Ever Musical Thriller About a Transgender Cartel Boss and the Sisterhood of Crime

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekOctober 28, 2024Emilia Pérez, Musical, Thriller, Cannes, TIFF 24, Jacques Audiard, Zoë Saldaña, Karla Sofia Gascón, Édgar Ramirez, Adriana Paz, Selena Gomez, Spanish language, Mexico Comments

Megalopolis: What’s The Big Idea? Francis Ford Coppola Has Many, And They All Live Here

Megalopolis: What’s The Big Idea? Francis Ford Coppola Has Many, And They All Live Here

By Chris Knight

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 26, 2024Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola, Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, TIFF 24, Drama, Sci fi, Cannes, FuturisticComment

Only the River Flows: Challenges of Pre-Digital Age 1990s Power Crafty Police Procedural

Only the River Flows: Challenges of Pre-Digital Age 1990s Power Crafty Police Procedural

By Chris Knight

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 31, 2024Only the River Flows, Chinese, Cannes, Shujun Wei, Chloe Maayan, Yilong Zhu, Police procedural Comment

Jeanne du Barry: Meh Period Piece Finds French-Speaking Johnny Depp Amid Much Finery

Jeanne du Barry: Meh Period Piece Finds French-Speaking Johnny Depp Amid Much Finery

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJim SlotekApril 30, 2024Period piece films, French films, Cannes, Jeanne du Barry, Maïwenn, Johnny Depp, Melvil Poupaud, Benjamin Lavernhe, Royalty, Stories about kings, Costume dramaComment

Club Zero: Inky Black Satire More Disturbing Than Amusing

Club Zero: Inky Black Satire More Disturbing Than Amusing

By Liz Braun

ReviewJim SlotekMarch 28, 2024Club Zero, Jessica Hausner, Geraldine Bajard, Mia Wasikowska, Amanda Lawrence, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Cannes, Women filmmakersComment

How to Have Sex: Perfunctory Title Belies Wallop of Message in New Drama

How to Have Sex: Perfunctory Title Belies Wallop of Message in New Drama

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJim SlotekFebruary 6, 2024Un Certain Regard, Cannes, How to Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker, Lara Peake, Enva Lewis, Mia McKenna-Bruce, British, Issues of consent, TIFF 23, First feature, Coming-of-age storiesComment

Memoria: A Thai Master’s Latest Featuring Tilda Swinton and A Big Bang

Memoria: A Thai Master’s Latest Featuring Tilda Swinton and A Big Bang

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekMay 13, 2022Memoria, Thailand, Colombia, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tilda Swinton, Art house movies, TIFF, Cannes, Sci-fi, Jeanne Balibar, Agnes BrekkeComment

Vortex: Into The Dark Again With Gaspar Noé, This Time With Empathy

Vortex: Into The Dark Again With Gaspar Noé, This Time With Empathy

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekMay 9, 2022Vortex, Films about dementia, Cannes, Gaspar Noé, Françoise Lebrun, Dario Argento, Alex Lutz, Kylian Dheret, Drama, Set in ParisComment

Flag Day: Con In The Family Features Sean Penn and His Daughter In Cathartic Drama

Flag Day: Con In The Family Features Sean Penn and His Daughter In Cathartic Drama

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 24, 2021Flag Day, Sean Penn, Dylan Penn, Regina King, Robin Wright, Josh Brolin, Cannes, Drama, fact-based dramaComment

The Real Thing: Japan’s Cannes Contender Follows the Needy Woman of Man’s Dreams

The Real Thing: Japan’s Cannes Contender Follows the Needy Woman of Man’s Dreams

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekMay 28, 2021The Real Thing, Koji Fukada, Mochiru Hoshisato, Manga, Japanese movies, Cannes, Win Morisaki, Femme fatales, NoirComment

Bacurau: Oddball Brazilian Western Gorefest Spins Heads, Supports Local Theatres

By Liam Lacey

Review, PreviewApril 6, 2020Bacurau, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Juliano Dornelles, TIFF 2019, Cannes, Sonia Braga, Udo Kier, Barbara Colen, Brazilian, Western, Sci-fi, PortugueseComment

Atlantics: Cannes Favourite a Composite of Magical Realism and Romance... like Romeo & Juliet if Juliet Lived

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 20, 2019Atlantics, Mati Diop, Cannes, Dakar, Doomed romance, Claire Mathon, Fatima Al Qadiri., Mame Bineta Sane, Nicole Sougou, Mariama Gassama, Babacar Sylla, Amadou Mbow, Refugee storiesComment

Chantal Akerman Retrospective Explores Slow Cinema from Feminist View

By Liam Lacey

Preview, Review, ViewsNovember 1, 2019Chantal Akerman, TIFF, Retrospective, TIFF retrospectives, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, European cinema, Slow cinema, New From Home, News From Home: The Films of Chantal Ackerman, CannesComment

Dogman: Dark Italian Drama Raised by Great Performance, Uncanny Setting

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJune 19, 2019Marcello Fonte, Matteo Garone, Dogman, TIFF 2018, italian movies, Cannes, Award winnerComment

Asako I & II: Oddball Japanese Romantic Melodrama a Study in Love… and Millennials

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 29, 2019Asako I & II., japanese movies, Cannes, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Tomako Shibasaki, Masahiro Higashide, Erika Karata, Rio Yamashita, Koji SetoComment

PODCAST! Ep. 25: Talking Cannes, Tarantino, Booksmart (see it) and why Godzilla is King

By Jim Slotek, Karen Gordon, Liam Lacey

PodcastJim SlotekMay 24, 2019Movie podcasts, Original-Cin, Cannes, Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Olivia Wilde, Booksmart, Kenneth Branagh, All is True, Godzilla, Shin GodzillaComment

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Terry Gilliam’s Latest a Tall Tale That Stumbles… And Face Plants

By Liam Lacey

ReviewApril 9, 2019The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Terry Gilliam, Fantasy, Years in the Making, Cannes, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, Jordi Mollà, Sancho Panza, Spain, Films set in SpainComment

Woman at War: A quirky feel-good movie about an Icelandic eco-warrior

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekMarch 12, 2019Icelandic films, Woman at War, Cannes, Toronto International Film Festival, Benedikt Erlingsson, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Eco-terrorism, Jörundur Ragnarsson, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada, Ukrainians, Twins, Jodie Foster, Hollywood remakes of foreign filmsComment

Arctic: Sublime Survival Story Pits Mads Mikkelsen Against a Blustery World

By Liam Lacey

Preview, ReviewFebruary 6, 2019Maria Thelma Smáradóttir, Joseph Trapanese, Tómas Örn Tómasson, Mads Mikkelsen, Joe Penna\, Survival Story, Arctic, Feature debut, Cannes Comment

Border: Part art-film, part-creature feature from author of Let the Right One In

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 23, 2018Border, Ali Abbasi, Un Certain Regard, Cannes, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In, Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Sweden's Oscar submissionComment