Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
The film seems far more interested in celebrating a short-lived era of artistic invention than interrogating it.
The film comes to life in moments where it suggests the blurred distinctions between freedom and imprisonment.
Even the reliably intense Margot Robbie is unable to fill the gaps left by the film’s unambitious screenplay.
The film is content to present Anton Chekhov’s ideas rather than grapple with their provocative and complex subtexts.
Throughout the film, director Masaaki Yuasa’s imagination runs so wild that it becomes impossible to resist.
Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge is so extravagantly violent and hopeless that it boasts a weird integrity.
All of the broad physical humor in the world can’t distract from the fact that the film is an endorsement of psychological exploitation.
One of the festival’s genuine, if lower-key highlights, which lent focus to its literary origins as well as to its filmmakers, was Intruder in the Dust.
Harald Zwart’s 12th Man shifts from a gripping chase in its earliest moments to a long game of survival.
In her understandable fury, Vivian Qu almost valorizes suffering, embracing it as a substantial signifier of identity.
The film comes to concern a selfless martyr before morphing, most absurdly, into a disease-of-the-week tearjerker.
In Alan Rudolph’s film, a sense of encroaching irrelevancy parallels the invisibility the characters feel.
Beauvois discusses his new film’s feminist core and his connection to improvisation.
It captures the pictorial beauty of old-fashioned farm life, but it doesn’t romanticize hard labor for its own sake.
The film rarely presents a clear analysis of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s victories, reducing her work to empty slogans.
There’s a newfound depth to the way Diablo Cody conveys the myriad pressures that plague her protagonist.
In Zoe, you see the honeymoon phase but not the emotional intimacy that makes a relationship last.
The film believes a personal reformulation of personality and disposition can be obtained by determination alone.
The actress discusses the process by which she’s presently devevloping properties for herself.
Kate Novack’s documentary is an act of template filmmaking, designed for maximum accessibility.