Before Baz Luhrmann took award season by storm with "Elvis," he made "Australia." If you've forgotten about the 2008 epic starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, you're not alone; the movie wasn't exactly embraced upon release, and while it made plenty of money at the box office, it also became a bit of a punchline among critics that year. As Stephanie Zacharek wrote in a review for Salon, "The second half of 'Australia,' Luhrmann's attempt to pull off a wartime weeper, is so aggressively sentimental that it begins to feel more like punishment than pleasure."
So what does "Australia" have to do with "Faraway Downs"? Well, everything. The upcoming six-episode limited series set to drop on streaming next month has been branded as a reimagining of Luhrmann's movie -- a second stab at his Australian "Gone With The Wind." It's an unusual choice from an always-interesting filmmaker, and we'll know...
So what does "Australia" have to do with "Faraway Downs"? Well, everything. The upcoming six-episode limited series set to drop on streaming next month has been branded as a reimagining of Luhrmann's movie -- a second stab at his Australian "Gone With The Wind." It's an unusual choice from an always-interesting filmmaker, and we'll know...
- 10/24/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
Oldboy 4K Uhd from Neon
Oldboy is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a 4K Ultra HD set on December 12 via Neon and Decal Releasing. The 2003 South Korean revenge thriller has been restored in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision.
Park Chan-wook (Stoker) directs from a script by Lim Jun-hyung and Hwang Jo-yun, based on the manga written by Garon Tsuchiya and illustrated by Nobuaki Minegishi. Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, and Kang Hye-jung star.
The releases features a 68-page casebound book with three new essays by film critics Stephanie Zacharek, David Sims, and Phoebe Chen along with six gift-wrapped collector’s cards.
It carries over 18 hours (!) of special features, including three audio commentaries...
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
Oldboy 4K Uhd from Neon
Oldboy is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a 4K Ultra HD set on December 12 via Neon and Decal Releasing. The 2003 South Korean revenge thriller has been restored in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision.
Park Chan-wook (Stoker) directs from a script by Lim Jun-hyung and Hwang Jo-yun, based on the manga written by Garon Tsuchiya and illustrated by Nobuaki Minegishi. Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, and Kang Hye-jung star.
The releases features a 68-page casebound book with three new essays by film critics Stephanie Zacharek, David Sims, and Phoebe Chen along with six gift-wrapped collector’s cards.
It carries over 18 hours (!) of special features, including three audio commentaries...
- 10/20/2023
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the most idiosyncratic filmmakers currently working and he put that enigmatic style to effective use once again with his new movie “Poor Things.” This Searchlight Pictures release, due out on Dec. 8, follows Emma Stone as a reanimated woman who goes on a journey of self-discovery. Willem Dafoe is the doctor who brings her back to life while Mark Ruffalo delivers a hilarious turn as a caddish lawyer who falls for her. The film has earned rave reviews so far, with a near-perfect 99% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The site’s critical consensus reads: “Wildly imaginative and exhilaratingly over the top, ‘Poor Things’ is a bizarre, brilliant tour de force for director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone.”
Many critics are calling the film his best work to date. Nick Schager (The Daily Beast) observed: “‘Poor Things’ is a work about distortion, assemblage, and invention, and thus...
Many critics are calling the film his best work to date. Nick Schager (The Daily Beast) observed: “‘Poor Things’ is a work about distortion, assemblage, and invention, and thus...
- 10/18/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Park Chan-wook's revenge thriller "Oldboy" celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. In commemoration, the film was remastered and theatrically distributed this past August by Neon. If you missed this beautiful restoration in theaters, fear not: Neon has announced it is releasing a limited edition 4K Blu-ray of "Oldboy," scheduled for release on December 12, 2023.
"Oldboy" is based on a manga by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi. The film adaptation transposes the setting from Japan to South Korea, but retains the core premise. Boorish businessman Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is abducted and held in a locked room for 15 years. Freed one day out of the blue, Oh Dae-su makes it his mission to find out who imprisoned him -- and why. But by the end of his journey, he wishes that he'd stayed locked up.
Co-written by Park, Hwang Jo-yun, and Lim Jun-hyung, "Oldboy" is the second chapter of the director's...
"Oldboy" is based on a manga by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi. The film adaptation transposes the setting from Japan to South Korea, but retains the core premise. Boorish businessman Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is abducted and held in a locked room for 15 years. Freed one day out of the blue, Oh Dae-su makes it his mission to find out who imprisoned him -- and why. But by the end of his journey, he wishes that he'd stayed locked up.
Co-written by Park, Hwang Jo-yun, and Lim Jun-hyung, "Oldboy" is the second chapter of the director's...
- 10/12/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSPoor Things.The 80th Venice Film Festival concluded last weekend. The jury, chaired by Damien Chazelle, awarded the Golden Lion to Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest, Poor Things; in his latest dispatch, Leonardo Goi calls it "joltingly alive, a film that crackles with the same restless curiosity and lust of its protagonist." See a summary of all the awards, plus a roundup of our coverage.San Sebastian Film Festival has announced who will serve on their festival juries for their 71st edition: Claire Denis will be the president for the Official Section, while Hayao Miyazaki will receive an honorary award for career achievement. His latest film, The Boy and The Heron, will open the festival.Recommended VIEWINGFor their 50th anniversary, the Film Fest Gent have commissioned 25 new short films inspired by new musical compositions. There's...
- 9/16/2023
- MUBI
Ten years ago, responding to rumors he’d sought to retire, Martin Scorsese succinctly replied, “You’ll have to tackle me to stop me.” Like a lunar cycle following the director on the occasion of three-hour-plus epics starring Leonardo DiCaprio, received wisdom again has it the man’s looking to settle down–then again, a rather elegiac interview on the eve of Killers of the Flower Moon‘s debut would only generate attention of the sort.
Between that film’s Cannes premiere (we have reliably heard it’s very good) and October 20 release, a fantastic profile from Stephanie Zacharek mentions a couple of irons in Scorsese’s fire. Among “lots of movie projects” are an adaptation of Marilynne Robinson’s Home, companion novel to her Pulitzer-winner Gilead, and the synopsis of which is simply steeped in Late Style:
The Reverend Boughton’s hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away.
Between that film’s Cannes premiere (we have reliably heard it’s very good) and October 20 release, a fantastic profile from Stephanie Zacharek mentions a couple of irons in Scorsese’s fire. Among “lots of movie projects” are an adaptation of Marilynne Robinson’s Home, companion novel to her Pulitzer-winner Gilead, and the synopsis of which is simply steeped in Late Style:
The Reverend Boughton’s hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away.
- 9/12/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Sofia Coppola’s new film about Priscilla Presley is earning rave reviews.
The biopic, based on 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, by the ex-wife of Elvis Presley, had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Monday.
Read More: Emotional Priscilla Presley Gets A Hug From Sofia Coppola After Biopic Screening At Venice Film Festival
Starring Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla and Jacob Elordi as Elvis, the film tells the story of how the iconic couple first met and fell in love, as well as their tumultuous marriage.
Writing for IndieWire, critic David Ehrlich praised Coppola for taking a “soft and muted” approach to the material, in contrast to the “orgiastic blockbuster” the was Baz Lurhmann’s 2022 biopic “Elvis”.
Little White Lies critic Hannah Strong, who also wrote the 2022 book Sofia Coppola: Forever Young, described “Priscilla” as “a melancholy fairy tale about first love and enduring mythology,” adding that Spaeny possesses “a...
The biopic, based on 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, by the ex-wife of Elvis Presley, had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Monday.
Read More: Emotional Priscilla Presley Gets A Hug From Sofia Coppola After Biopic Screening At Venice Film Festival
Starring Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla and Jacob Elordi as Elvis, the film tells the story of how the iconic couple first met and fell in love, as well as their tumultuous marriage.
Writing for IndieWire, critic David Ehrlich praised Coppola for taking a “soft and muted” approach to the material, in contrast to the “orgiastic blockbuster” the was Baz Lurhmann’s 2022 biopic “Elvis”.
Little White Lies critic Hannah Strong, who also wrote the 2022 book Sofia Coppola: Forever Young, described “Priscilla” as “a melancholy fairy tale about first love and enduring mythology,” adding that Spaeny possesses “a...
- 9/5/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
“Priscilla” premiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival on Monday, September 4. Written and directed by Oscar winner Sofia Coppola – who won for her original screenplay of “Lost in Translation” in 2004 – it’s her first film since “On the Rocks” in 2020. The A24 release “Priscilla” is adapted from Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s acclaimed 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me,” recounting her tumultuous relationship with Elvis Presley from the age of 14 when the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll was at the height of his fame. It’s described, “Through Priscilla’s eyes, Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland.” As such, it is said to paint a far more nuanced and complex/negative portrayal of Elvis than did last year’s Baz Luhrmann biopic.
The film stars Cailee Spaeny, who had...
The film stars Cailee Spaeny, who had...
- 9/4/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
A master of his craft renowned for his clinical, methodical technique suddenly finds himself in a precarious position. But before we get to David Fincher, let's talk about his new film, "The Killer."
Based on the French graphic novel series of the same name by writer Alexis Nolent and illustrator Luc Jacamon, "The Killer" is the first feature film Fincher has directed since 2020's Oscar-winning "Mank" and only his third in the last 10 years. That's partly due to him being busy helming multiple episodes of Netflix's acclaimed serial killer drama "Mindhunter," as well as producing and occasionally directing the streamer's (also well-received) animated anthology series "Love, Death & Robots." Still, it's just not the same as consistently having a new Fincher film every few years as we did in the 1990s and 2000s.
Maybe that's why the crowd was particularly enthusiastic during his new film's world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
Based on the French graphic novel series of the same name by writer Alexis Nolent and illustrator Luc Jacamon, "The Killer" is the first feature film Fincher has directed since 2020's Oscar-winning "Mank" and only his third in the last 10 years. That's partly due to him being busy helming multiple episodes of Netflix's acclaimed serial killer drama "Mindhunter," as well as producing and occasionally directing the streamer's (also well-received) animated anthology series "Love, Death & Robots." Still, it's just not the same as consistently having a new Fincher film every few years as we did in the 1990s and 2000s.
Maybe that's why the crowd was particularly enthusiastic during his new film's world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
- 9/4/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
“The Killer” bowed at the 2023 Venice Film Festival on Sunday, September 3. Directed by three-time Oscar nominee David Fincher in his first film since 2020’s “Mank,” it stars Michael Fassbender as a hitman. The storyline is described thusly: A man, solitary and cold, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, the killer waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. And yet the longer he waits, the more he thinks he’s losing his mind, if not his cool. A brutal, bloody and stylish noir story of a professional assassin lost in a world without a moral compass.”
Fincher is said to have been attached to the “Killer” project since 2007, when it was set at Paramount. It followed Fincher over to Netflix under Fincher’s overall deal with the streamer.
Early reviews have been positive-to-mixed. As of this writing, “The Killer” rates 88% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes based on 16 reviews, with...
Fincher is said to have been attached to the “Killer” project since 2007, when it was set at Paramount. It followed Fincher over to Netflix under Fincher’s overall deal with the streamer.
Early reviews have been positive-to-mixed. As of this writing, “The Killer” rates 88% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes based on 16 reviews, with...
- 9/3/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
“Maestro” bowed at the 2023 Venice Film Festival on Saturday, September 2. The film, which tells the story of famed composer Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and his decades-long relationship with Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan), recently sparked debate over Cooper’s use of a prosthetic nose to portray the Jewish music legend. But what did journalists think when they finally got to see the whole film?
The film already has a MetaCritic score of 82 based on 15 reviews that have come out of the fest as of this writing — 14 of them positive and one of them classified as mixed, but none outright negative. Over on Rotten Tomatoes the film rates 95% fresh based on 20 reviews, which means only one review there was classified as negative.
Stephanie Zacharek (Time) says the film, which Cooper also directed, is “superb and deeply felt … This is a complex and sophisticated picture, the kind of grown-up love story we see all too rarely these days,...
The film already has a MetaCritic score of 82 based on 15 reviews that have come out of the fest as of this writing — 14 of them positive and one of them classified as mixed, but none outright negative. Over on Rotten Tomatoes the film rates 95% fresh based on 20 reviews, which means only one review there was classified as negative.
Stephanie Zacharek (Time) says the film, which Cooper also directed, is “superb and deeply felt … This is a complex and sophisticated picture, the kind of grown-up love story we see all too rarely these days,...
- 9/3/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
It’s been five years since idiosyncratic filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos had his big Oscars breakthrough with “The Favourite,” which earned 10 nominations, and pulled off an upset in a Best Actress with Olivia Colman prevailing over Glenn Close. Success hasn’t tempered his adventurous spirit, though, as evidenced by his follow-up, “Poor Things,” which premiered to rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival on September 1. “Poor Things” could well reap double digit Oscar bids too (more on that below).
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“Poor Things” tells the story of a young woman (Emma Stone) brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist (Willem Dafoe) who is then pursued by a millionaire (Mark Ruffalo). As of this writing it has a MetaCritic score of 94 based on 17 reviews — all classified as positive, with seven of those rating the film a perfect 100. The film also rates 100% fresh on...
SEEExperts slugfest: Our updated 2024 Oscar predictions as festivals kick off
“Poor Things” tells the story of a young woman (Emma Stone) brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist (Willem Dafoe) who is then pursued by a millionaire (Mark Ruffalo). As of this writing it has a MetaCritic score of 94 based on 17 reviews — all classified as positive, with seven of those rating the film a perfect 100. The film also rates 100% fresh on...
- 9/2/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
The first reviews are in from Thursday night’s Venice Film Festival world premiere of the Michael Mann-directed major Oscar contender “Ferrari,” the action-packed Neon study of the Italian racer and sports car entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari starring Adam Driver as Ferrari, Penelope Cruz as his wife Laura and Shailene Woodley as his mistress Lina Lardi. It focuses on three pivotal months in the life of Ferrari back in 1957, casting its focus on that year’s grueling Mille Miglia endurance race and the love triangle between Enzo and his women. While the early critiques are mixed with some lukewarm ones, the majority are uniformly positive and include a few outright raves.
Here is a sampling:
Owen Gleiberman of Variety raves, “In Michael Mann’s heady, intricately dark, raptly absorbing ‘Ferrari,’ it isn’t just the action that’s fraught with thrilling danger. Every moment of the drama moves with a sense of high-stakes dread,...
Here is a sampling:
Owen Gleiberman of Variety raves, “In Michael Mann’s heady, intricately dark, raptly absorbing ‘Ferrari,’ it isn’t just the action that’s fraught with thrilling danger. Every moment of the drama moves with a sense of high-stakes dread,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Robert Downey Jr. is a name everyone knows. His charismatic persona and ageless style has occupied the pop culture zeitgeist for the majority of the 21st century. Having topped Forbes’ list of Highest Paid Actors from 2012-2015 and winning a whopping seven People’s Choice Awards in the 2010s alone, he’s arguably the most popular actor of the 21st century. This is largely due to his portrayal of Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The box office success of his first film with Marvel, 2009’s “Iron Man,” marked the start of the most financially successful and iconic franchise in the history of modern cinema. Downey Jr. starred in 9 MCU films as Iron Man and in the process raked up just shy of $350 million in salary.
His final film as Stark, “Avengers: Endgame,” marked the end of a groundbreaking era for Hollywood. The film...
His final film as Stark, “Avengers: Endgame,” marked the end of a groundbreaking era for Hollywood. The film...
- 7/24/2023
- by Nick Bisa
- Gold Derby
A week away from the release of Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” critics have praised the new film as yet another triumph for its leading man, Tom Cruise, and one of if not the best film of the summer.
While some critics noted that the film doesn’t quite reach the heights of its 2018 predecessor “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” or Cruise’s 2022 Best Picture Oscar nominated “Top Gun: Maverick,” reviews agree it has plenty of the wild and tense set pieces that “Mission” fans have come to expect, including a comedic car chase through the streets of Rome, a nail-biting train chase and a much-marketed shot of Cruise riding a motorcycle off a cliff.
“It is Cruise himself that unlocks this extraordinary and, in the end, surprisingly poignant franchise start to finish, the key to it all even when he’s not dangling from a Dubai...
While some critics noted that the film doesn’t quite reach the heights of its 2018 predecessor “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” or Cruise’s 2022 Best Picture Oscar nominated “Top Gun: Maverick,” reviews agree it has plenty of the wild and tense set pieces that “Mission” fans have come to expect, including a comedic car chase through the streets of Rome, a nail-biting train chase and a much-marketed shot of Cruise riding a motorcycle off a cliff.
“It is Cruise himself that unlocks this extraordinary and, in the end, surprisingly poignant franchise start to finish, the key to it all even when he’s not dangling from a Dubai...
- 7/5/2023
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
With the true crime TV movie “Boston Strangler,” Keira Knightley has made a welcome return to the genre she excels in — period dramas. The new Hulu telefilm chronicles the true story of Loretta McLaughlin, the reporter who connected the murders of the Boston Strangler and broke the story for Boston Record American.
The killer murdered 13 women in the 1960s and McLaughlin (Knightley) reported on the ongoing story alongside Jean Cole (Carrie Coon) while dealing with the sexism of the era at the same time. Utilizing an American accent, which Knightley doesn’t often do, the actress is a firm presence on screen and carries the TV movie on her shoulders. It’s her haunting facial expressions and dogged determinism as McLaughlin that propels the movie forward. Without Knightley’s cutting central performance, the movie might not have worked, as critics have noted.
Stephanie Zacharek (Time Magazine) wrote: “Knightley, in a...
The killer murdered 13 women in the 1960s and McLaughlin (Knightley) reported on the ongoing story alongside Jean Cole (Carrie Coon) while dealing with the sexism of the era at the same time. Utilizing an American accent, which Knightley doesn’t often do, the actress is a firm presence on screen and carries the TV movie on her shoulders. It’s her haunting facial expressions and dogged determinism as McLaughlin that propels the movie forward. Without Knightley’s cutting central performance, the movie might not have worked, as critics have noted.
Stephanie Zacharek (Time Magazine) wrote: “Knightley, in a...
- 6/14/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
“The Idol” — HBO’s new series starring Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye as a Svengali-like guru who takes a pop star (Lily Rose-Depp) under his wing — premieres on June 4 after a full year of making headlines for its reportedly “chaotic” production, “toxic” set and, according to some, “sexual torture porn” content.
Here’s a timeline of all “The Idol” controversies that have beset the series, from the replacing of original director Amy Seimetz to reports from traumatized crew members to reception by critics, who, to date, have given it a dismal 25% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Amy Seimetz is out, Sam Levinson is in as director (April 2022) Amy Seimetz, Sam Levinson (Getty Images)
In April 2022, HBO said that the show, which began filming in November 2021, would be undergoing a massive rehaul with significant reshoots and several new cast members. Then came reports that director Amy Seimetz, who’d co-created the “The Girlfriend Experience,...
Here’s a timeline of all “The Idol” controversies that have beset the series, from the replacing of original director Amy Seimetz to reports from traumatized crew members to reception by critics, who, to date, have given it a dismal 25% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Amy Seimetz is out, Sam Levinson is in as director (April 2022) Amy Seimetz, Sam Levinson (Getty Images)
In April 2022, HBO said that the show, which began filming in November 2021, would be undergoing a massive rehaul with significant reshoots and several new cast members. Then came reports that director Amy Seimetz, who’d co-created the “The Girlfriend Experience,...
- 6/3/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
HBO has long been considered the leader in prestige television programming, and, over the last five months, the 51-year-old cable network has fully reinforced this belief with the critically acclaimed first season of "The Last of Us" and the perfectly pitched conclusions of "Succession" and "Barry." But while we're still buzzing over the finales of those last two shows, you can't help but look ahead and wonder how the King of Peak TV rides this wave of hosannas to the next must-watch triumphs.
The jury is out as to whether Sam Levinson's "The Idol" will draw as many eyeballs as his wildly popular teen melodrama "Euphoria," but, judging from the critical reaction thus far (and the behind-the-scenes controversy), the series promises to be a supercharged hot-take generator. The show stars Lily-Rose Depp as an out-of-control pop star whose instability and sexual desirability is wantonly exploited to launch her to diva immortality.
The jury is out as to whether Sam Levinson's "The Idol" will draw as many eyeballs as his wildly popular teen melodrama "Euphoria," but, judging from the critical reaction thus far (and the behind-the-scenes controversy), the series promises to be a supercharged hot-take generator. The show stars Lily-Rose Depp as an out-of-control pop star whose instability and sexual desirability is wantonly exploited to launch her to diva immortality.
- 5/31/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
‘Perfect Days’ is on 2.9 so far, while Catherine Breillat’s ‘Last Summer’ managed 2.3.
Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days has made a strong impression on Screen’s Cannes 2023 jury grid, landing with an average of 2.9 (with one score outstanding), while Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer received a 2.3 average from critics.
Perfect Days received four fours (excellent) from Bangkok Post’s Kong Rithdee, Postif’s Michel Ciment, Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek, and filfan.com’s Ahmed Shawky. The German filmmaker’s 10th competition title also scored two threes (good) and five twos (average), while a rating from Die Zeit’s Katja Nicomedus still pending.
Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days has made a strong impression on Screen’s Cannes 2023 jury grid, landing with an average of 2.9 (with one score outstanding), while Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer received a 2.3 average from critics.
Perfect Days received four fours (excellent) from Bangkok Post’s Kong Rithdee, Postif’s Michel Ciment, Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek, and filfan.com’s Ahmed Shawky. The German filmmaker’s 10th competition title also scored two threes (good) and five twos (average), while a rating from Die Zeit’s Katja Nicomedus still pending.
- 5/26/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Aki Kaurismaki’s latest is the new leader on the grid with a 3.2 average.
Aki Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves has snatched the top spot on the Cannes jury grid with an average score of 3.2.
The tragicomedy scored four fours (excellent) from Meduza’s Anton Dolin; Postif’s Michel Ciment; Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek; and Roberebert.com’s Ben Kenigsberg. Kaurismäki’s film received a further six threes (good) and two twos (average).
Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.
Hailing from Finland, Fallen Leaves centres around a shop assistant and alcoholic sandblaster who met one night in Helsinki.
Aki Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves has snatched the top spot on the Cannes jury grid with an average score of 3.2.
The tragicomedy scored four fours (excellent) from Meduza’s Anton Dolin; Postif’s Michel Ciment; Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek; and Roberebert.com’s Ben Kenigsberg. Kaurismäki’s film received a further six threes (good) and two twos (average).
Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.
Hailing from Finland, Fallen Leaves centres around a shop assistant and alcoholic sandblaster who met one night in Helsinki.
- 5/23/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ scored a 3 average while ‘Firebrand’ also landed on the grid on 1.8
Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall has joined May December in first place on Screen’s Cannes jury grid, after receiving an average score of 3 from the critics.
The French filmmaker’s latest Cannes entry received four stars from LA Times’ Justin Chang; The Telegraph’s Tim Robey and Le Monde’s Clarisse Fabre. This was followed by six threes and three twos, the latter of which came from Bangkok Post’s Kong Rithdee; Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus andTime Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek.
Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall has joined May December in first place on Screen’s Cannes jury grid, after receiving an average score of 3 from the critics.
The French filmmaker’s latest Cannes entry received four stars from LA Times’ Justin Chang; The Telegraph’s Tim Robey and Le Monde’s Clarisse Fabre. This was followed by six threes and three twos, the latter of which came from Bangkok Post’s Kong Rithdee; Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus andTime Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek.
- 5/22/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The first thing anyone ever says about the work of venerated documentary filmmaker Wang Bing is that he makes fascinating but long films. Like, really, really long. His debut West of the Tracks (Tie Xi Qu), about a crumbling industrial district, screened in two different versions, one five and the other nine hours, give or take. Crude Oil — as the name might suggest, a portrait of oil workers — spanned 14 hours.
Two of his films are screening at Cannes this year — main competition entrant Youth (Spring) and special screening Man in Black — so at three and half hours and 60 minutes, respectively, in Wang terms they’re practically shorts. Kvetching about length aside, Youth (the parenthetical subtitle Spring heralds a projected series of films) is consistently engaging, even if it’s not always easy to see what the whole package is trying to say that couldn’t be said with more brevity.
Two of his films are screening at Cannes this year — main competition entrant Youth (Spring) and special screening Man in Black — so at three and half hours and 60 minutes, respectively, in Wang terms they’re practically shorts. Kvetching about length aside, Youth (the parenthetical subtitle Spring heralds a projected series of films) is consistently engaging, even if it’s not always easy to see what the whole package is trying to say that couldn’t be said with more brevity.
- 5/18/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Critics this year include LA Times’ Justin Chang, Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus, and Positif’s Michel Ciment.
Screen International has revealed its critics for the jury grid that will run throughout the 2023 Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27).
Joining Screen’s reviewing team will be critics from 11 international outlets to give their verdict on the 21 films in Competition this year for the Palme d’Or.
The results will be published in Screen’s Cannes daily magazines and for the first time the grid will also be updated live on screendaily.com.
Egyptian critic Ahmed Shawky joins the Screen jury critics...
Screen International has revealed its critics for the jury grid that will run throughout the 2023 Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27).
Joining Screen’s reviewing team will be critics from 11 international outlets to give their verdict on the 21 films in Competition this year for the Palme d’Or.
The results will be published in Screen’s Cannes daily magazines and for the first time the grid will also be updated live on screendaily.com.
Egyptian critic Ahmed Shawky joins the Screen jury critics...
- 5/16/2023
- by ¬Ella Gauci
- ScreenDaily
Over at Reverse Shot, during a candid and illuminating chat about his latest, Beau is Afraid, Ari Aster tells Michael Koresky about his fastidious approach to production design. Several of the film’s locations were built on a stage, and countless little details—“every poster, every sign, every product”—were created from scratch. Aster cites his obsession for such persnickety world-building as one reason the film was eventually converted to IMAX. Only a wider aspect ratio can do justice to all of the sight gags he’s disseminated over Beau’s three-hour sprawl; the format “encourages the viewer to search the frame,” and “promotes a different kind of engagement with the film.” He goes on to add:There’s this thing that in comics is called “chicken fat,” which are just the details that litter a frame. I got that term from Dan Clowes. I did not know it beforehand, but...
- 5/8/2023
- MUBI
Ari Aster’s first two films, 2018’s “Hereditary” and 2019’s “Midsommar,” cultivated the young director enough cachet for A24 to hand him a blank check for “Beau is Afraid,” his “Jewish ‘Lord of the Rings’” about the psychological horror of visiting your mother. The three-hour horror-comedy epic is the indie studio’s most expensive movie to date. Starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix as the stunted and anxiety-ridden Beau of the title, the movie defies easy categorization and is, expectedly, inspiring awe and disgust in nearly equal measure – often within individual viewers.
Beau lives in an urban hellscape that approximates what “New York City looked like in the mind of Travis Bickle and Bernhard Goetz” and is in a persistent state of waiting for the other shoe to drop. When it finally does, it’s a chandelier on top of his mother’s head (it wouldn’t be an Aster film...
Beau lives in an urban hellscape that approximates what “New York City looked like in the mind of Travis Bickle and Bernhard Goetz” and is in a persistent state of waiting for the other shoe to drop. When it finally does, it’s a chandelier on top of his mother’s head (it wouldn’t be an Aster film...
- 4/14/2023
- by Ronald Meyer
- Gold Derby
In the Emmy race for Best TV Movie, Hulu’s top contenders appear to be “Fire Island” and “Prey,” both of which are currently projected by Gold Derby to be top-five contenders, but “Crown Heights” director Matt Ruskin’s stirring journalism drama, “Boston Strangler,” is equally deserving of the streamer’s resources this season. Avoiding easy answers and boasting an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated cast, the film composites “She Said’s” female-empowerment angle, “Spotlight’s” reproof of corrupt city politics, and “Zodiac’s” emphasis on the personal toll exacted by obsession.
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In 1962, ambitious Boston Record American reporter Loretta McLaughlin (Keira Knightley) gets reassigned from the lifestyle desk after connecting the murders of four elderly women killed by strangulation. The career break isn’t without drawbacks, though, and her biggest obstacle turns out to be the police, which would...
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In 1962, ambitious Boston Record American reporter Loretta McLaughlin (Keira Knightley) gets reassigned from the lifestyle desk after connecting the murders of four elderly women killed by strangulation. The career break isn’t without drawbacks, though, and her biggest obstacle turns out to be the police, which would...
- 4/13/2023
- by Ronald Meyer
- Gold Derby
“Triangle of Sadness” had a tremendously successful Oscar nominations morning, earning three bids for Best Picture, Director, and Original Screenplay. But one surprising omission from its haul was scene stealer Dolly de Leon, who took command of the final third of the film, dominating the screen with an unforgettable performance. How did the supporting actress miss out on a bid, even though her film performed so well?
See Oscar nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere’ leads with 11, ‘All Quiet’ and ‘Banshees’ at 9
A good showing for “Triangle of Sadness” was certainly not out of the question. But our combined odds did not predict it to nab that coveted Best Picture slot, ranking it in 12th place, just two notches shy of the top 10. Writer-director Ruben Östlund was an even bigger surprise, ranking 13th, far afield of the final five. He edged out the likes of Edward Berger (“All Quiet on the Western Front...
See Oscar nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere’ leads with 11, ‘All Quiet’ and ‘Banshees’ at 9
A good showing for “Triangle of Sadness” was certainly not out of the question. But our combined odds did not predict it to nab that coveted Best Picture slot, ranking it in 12th place, just two notches shy of the top 10. Writer-director Ruben Östlund was an even bigger surprise, ranking 13th, far afield of the final five. He edged out the likes of Edward Berger (“All Quiet on the Western Front...
- 1/24/2023
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
Thirteen years since Avatar first shuttled us to Pandora, James Cameron returns with the second chapter of his Na’vi saga: Avatar: The Way of Water, a spectacle stupefying enough for its many enthusiasts to paint the helmer in near-messianic terms. Hailed, per Entertainment Weekly’s Leah Greenblatt, as “a man outside of time, an emissary from a future where movies look like something we’ve only imagined them to be,” the director, Justin Chang echoes at the L.A. Times, “remains one of the few Hollywood visionaries who actually merits that much-abused term,” a filmmaker determined “to submerge you in another time and place, to seduce you into a state of pure, unforced astonishment.” But the disbelief Chang alludes to deserves careful spelling. Anyone mildly familiar with the Canadian auteur’s filmography will know that Cameron’s craft has always hinged on a kind of dichotomy: impressive as his world building and showmanship often are,...
- 1/5/2023
- MUBI
Guillermo del Toro defends divisive new film Bardo: ‘Anyone confused about the plot, my condolences’
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has shared some sparring words for those “confused” by Alejandro González Iñárritu’s newest film Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths.
Since Iñárritu’s drama comedy made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in early September, followed by its theatrical release last week (18 November), it’s received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike for being too “indulgent” and “tedious”.
At the time of writing, the movie, which follows the deeply personal story of Silverio Gacho (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a renowned Mexican journalist and filmmaker, holds a critics rating of 57 per cent and an 83 per cent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
“It’s audacious, bold film-making, a highly personal work that is cluttered with symbolism and bloated with self-regard,” The Observer’s Wendy Ide wrote, with Time’s Stephanie Zacharek, similarly finding it “exhausting”.
“Iñárritu has a lot of thoughts and feelings,...
Since Iñárritu’s drama comedy made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in early September, followed by its theatrical release last week (18 November), it’s received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike for being too “indulgent” and “tedious”.
At the time of writing, the movie, which follows the deeply personal story of Silverio Gacho (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a renowned Mexican journalist and filmmaker, holds a critics rating of 57 per cent and an 83 per cent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
“It’s audacious, bold film-making, a highly personal work that is cluttered with symbolism and bloated with self-regard,” The Observer’s Wendy Ide wrote, with Time’s Stephanie Zacharek, similarly finding it “exhausting”.
“Iñárritu has a lot of thoughts and feelings,...
- 11/21/2022
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - Film
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Despite a predictably effusive standing ovation at the Venice International Film Festival, where it premiered in September, Andrew Dominik’s Blonde saw its awards potential quickly downgraded by Oscar handicappers once the reviews began posting. While critics had praise for Ana de Armas’ fiercely committed performance as a bruised and battered Marilyn Monroe, the consensus about the film itself — the Netflix release eventually scored a meager 42 percent on Rotten Tomatoes — was that it failed to recognize Monroe’s intelligence, determination and undeniable talent.
Writing for Time.com, Stephanie Zacharek observed, “Blonde allows no room for the real-life Marilyn’s multidimensionality, her capacity for delight as well as her deep depressions. Actors are always more than the sum of their parts, and Marilyn Monroe especially, as both a performer and a persona, is too complex to be reduced to parts in the first place. Her...
Despite a predictably effusive standing ovation at the Venice International Film Festival, where it premiered in September, Andrew Dominik’s Blonde saw its awards potential quickly downgraded by Oscar handicappers once the reviews began posting. While critics had praise for Ana de Armas’ fiercely committed performance as a bruised and battered Marilyn Monroe, the consensus about the film itself — the Netflix release eventually scored a meager 42 percent on Rotten Tomatoes — was that it failed to recognize Monroe’s intelligence, determination and undeniable talent.
Writing for Time.com, Stephanie Zacharek observed, “Blonde allows no room for the real-life Marilyn’s multidimensionality, her capacity for delight as well as her deep depressions. Actors are always more than the sum of their parts, and Marilyn Monroe especially, as both a performer and a persona, is too complex to be reduced to parts in the first place. Her...
- 11/14/2022
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In her Venice Film Festival review, Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek calls The Eternal Daughter a “gorgeous and enigmatic movie.”
From director Joanna Hogg and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, Carly-Sophia Davies, and Zinnia Davies-Cooke, check out the haunting trailer for The Eternal Daughter.
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past. Featuring a towering, deeply moving performance by Tilda Swinton, acclaimed filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s beguiling latest film is a brilliant and captivating exploration of parental relationships and the things we leave behind.
The Eternal Daughter opens in theaters December 2.
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From director Joanna Hogg and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, Carly-Sophia Davies, and Zinnia Davies-Cooke, check out the haunting trailer for The Eternal Daughter.
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past. Featuring a towering, deeply moving performance by Tilda Swinton, acclaimed filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s beguiling latest film is a brilliant and captivating exploration of parental relationships and the things we leave behind.
The Eternal Daughter opens in theaters December 2.
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Photos by Sandro Kopp,Courtesy of A24...
- 11/1/2022
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Six weeks after its September premiere at the Venice Film Festival, “The Banshees of Inisherin” has been released in theaters nationwide. The picture was written and directed by Martin McDonagh, who won a Best Live Action Short Film Oscar for “Six Shooter” in 2004 and went on to receive three more bids for penning “In Bruges” (2008) and for both writing and producing Best Picture nominee “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2017).
“Banshees” reunites McDonagh with his “In Bruges” stars, Golden Globe winner Colin Farrell and Emmy winner Brendan Gleeson. Farrell looks poised to receive his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor after taking home the prize in Venice. He plays Pádraic, a man shocked to find out his drinking buddy, Colm (Gleeson), no longer wishes to speak to him. Gleeson currently ranks second in our Best Supporting Actor Oscar odds, while McDonagh sits in sixth place for Best Director, third for Best...
“Banshees” reunites McDonagh with his “In Bruges” stars, Golden Globe winner Colin Farrell and Emmy winner Brendan Gleeson. Farrell looks poised to receive his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor after taking home the prize in Venice. He plays Pádraic, a man shocked to find out his drinking buddy, Colm (Gleeson), no longer wishes to speak to him. Gleeson currently ranks second in our Best Supporting Actor Oscar odds, while McDonagh sits in sixth place for Best Director, third for Best...
- 10/22/2022
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
There’s a moment in “Day Shift,” a new vampire action movie on Netflix, that might be easy to miss, but for those paying attention, speaks directly to a moment happening in cinematography right now that’s changing how films are made.
It happens during a high-speed car chase in which Jamie Foxx’s beleaguered San Fernando Valley vampire slayer is trying to elude various baddies. It’s a zippy sequence for sure, but what really set me off (I rewound and watched it again) is when the camera is launched from inside one of the cars, traveling through the sunroof and, still in motion, continuing to capture the action. It’s a small flourish but a truly incredible one that embodies not just how Hollywood is changing the way modern action movies look, but also how they feel.
“In this business, everything’s been done already,” Perry told TheWrap.
It happens during a high-speed car chase in which Jamie Foxx’s beleaguered San Fernando Valley vampire slayer is trying to elude various baddies. It’s a zippy sequence for sure, but what really set me off (I rewound and watched it again) is when the camera is launched from inside one of the cars, traveling through the sunroof and, still in motion, continuing to capture the action. It’s a small flourish but a truly incredible one that embodies not just how Hollywood is changing the way modern action movies look, but also how they feel.
“In this business, everything’s been done already,” Perry told TheWrap.
- 8/19/2022
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Jordan Peele’s Nope is a UFO story where characters aren’t concerned with killing an alien so much as capturing it on camera. In that regard, it’s an extraterrestrial thriller that feels very much in sync with our zeitgeist, one whose chief preoccupation revolves around our struggles to process singular, horrific happenings in an age when they are so swiftly commodified into something sellable, scrollable, and endlessly watchable. Daniel Kaluuya plays Oj Haywood, Keke Palmer his sister Emerald. They’re the descendants of the Black jockey immortalized in Eadweard Muybridge’s The Horse in Motion (1878), a man whose name (unlike the horse’s and its owner’s) has long been erased from history. The Haywood siblings own a ranch in Agua Dulce, where they train horses for film appearances. But business is drying up, and a neighbor—former child star Ricky “Jupe” Park (Steven Yeun)—wants to buy them out.
- 8/16/2022
- MUBI
On August 12, Netflix released ‘Day Shift’ starring Oscar winner Jamie Foxx along with Karla Souza, Dave Franco and Snoop Dogg. Foxx plays Bud Jablonski, as a man with a mundane job that fronts for his real source of income, hunting and killing vampires as part of an international union of vampire hunters. The film currently holds a not-so-fresh rating of 58 at Rotten Tomatoes, but what exactly did the critics think?
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Stephanie Zacharek of Time Magazine praises the movie’s lead, stating Foxx’s film “has three things going for it, the first being its jaunty spirit and its reckless disregard for making any sense whatsoever. Ok, maybe that’s two things, but you get the drift.” In the end, the film delivers on what it promised. “Foxx goes above and beyond the call of duty, seemingly without even trying.”
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Stephanie Zacharek of Time Magazine praises the movie’s lead, stating Foxx’s film “has three things going for it, the first being its jaunty spirit and its reckless disregard for making any sense whatsoever. Ok, maybe that’s two things, but you get the drift.” In the end, the film delivers on what it promised. “Foxx goes above and beyond the call of duty, seemingly without even trying.”
Vincent Mancini of Uproxx begins...
- 8/15/2022
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
“Thor: Love and Thunder” opened Friday, July 8, as the fourth film in the “Thor” franchise and the 29th film overall in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This one puts the title god of thunder against How do critics think it compares to the films that have come before? Let’s take a look at the “Thor: Love and Thunder” reviews.
On MetaCritic, where films are rated on a sliding scale from 0 to 100, the latest “Thor” film has a score of 61 based on 47 reviews counted as of this writing. That’s better than the first two “Thor” movies: the 2011 original film scored 57 and then 2013’s “Thor: The Dark World” scored 54, both of which indicate mixed reviews. But 2017’s “Thor: Ragnarok,” the first directed by Taika Waititi (who also helmed “Love and Thunder”), rated a much more favorable 74. So by this metric “Love and Thunder” is more in line with the first two...
On MetaCritic, where films are rated on a sliding scale from 0 to 100, the latest “Thor” film has a score of 61 based on 47 reviews counted as of this writing. That’s better than the first two “Thor” movies: the 2011 original film scored 57 and then 2013’s “Thor: The Dark World” scored 54, both of which indicate mixed reviews. But 2017’s “Thor: Ragnarok,” the first directed by Taika Waititi (who also helmed “Love and Thunder”), rated a much more favorable 74. So by this metric “Love and Thunder” is more in line with the first two...
- 7/8/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” jams into theaters June 24. The film’s hype just keeps growing, especially after receiving a 12-minute standing ovation after its premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
With a runtime of 2 hours and 39 minutes, the biopic has received mixed reviews that range from “trainwreck” to “a sharp edit away from being a classic.” According to Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek, “Luhrmann sees equal value in fact and myth.” The Los Angeles Times’ Justin Chang wrote, “It’s all a bit much, which means it’s just right.”
Audiences will have a chance to find out for themselves later this month, but for now here’s everything we know about “Elvis.”
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‘Elvis’ Film Review: Baz Luhrmann Gleefully Distorts Legend’s Life in Extravagant Biopic This is Luhrmann’s first first feature film since 2013’s “The Great Gatsby”:
Besides “The Great Gatsby,” Luhrmann has directed “Australia...
With a runtime of 2 hours and 39 minutes, the biopic has received mixed reviews that range from “trainwreck” to “a sharp edit away from being a classic.” According to Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek, “Luhrmann sees equal value in fact and myth.” The Los Angeles Times’ Justin Chang wrote, “It’s all a bit much, which means it’s just right.”
Audiences will have a chance to find out for themselves later this month, but for now here’s everything we know about “Elvis.”
Also Read:
‘Elvis’ Film Review: Baz Luhrmann Gleefully Distorts Legend’s Life in Extravagant Biopic This is Luhrmann’s first first feature film since 2013’s “The Great Gatsby”:
Besides “The Great Gatsby,” Luhrmann has directed “Australia...
- 6/3/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Kelly Reichardt’s ’Showing Up’ lands third on Screen’s Cannes jury grid.
Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave finishes on top of Screen’s Cannes jury grid with an average of 3.2 after Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up and Léonor Serraille’s Mother And Son fail to match its score.
Reichardt’s Competition debut Showing Up landed in third place with an average of 2.7 after receiving five scores of three (good) from our jurors.
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The film, starring Michelle Williams, centres on a New York artist preparing for a show who must balance professional demands with...
Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave finishes on top of Screen’s Cannes jury grid with an average of 3.2 after Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up and Léonor Serraille’s Mother And Son fail to match its score.
Reichardt’s Competition debut Showing Up landed in third place with an average of 2.7 after receiving five scores of three (good) from our jurors.
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The film, starring Michelle Williams, centres on a New York artist preparing for a show who must balance professional demands with...
- 5/28/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Jerzy Skolimowski’s ’Eo’, Tarik Saleh’s ’Boy From Heaven’ and Arnaud Desplechin’s ’Brother and Sister’ also land on the jury grid.
James Gray’s Armageddon Time has taken the early lead on Screen’s Cannes jury grid with an average of 2.8 (with one score incoming), whilst the first scores for Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo, Tarik Saleh’s Boy From Heaven and Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister are also in.
Period drama Armageddon Time, which stars Jeremy Strong, Anthony Hopkins and Anne Hathaway, received fours (excellent) from Le Monde’s Mathieu Macheret and Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek.
James Gray’s Armageddon Time has taken the early lead on Screen’s Cannes jury grid with an average of 2.8 (with one score incoming), whilst the first scores for Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo, Tarik Saleh’s Boy From Heaven and Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister are also in.
Period drama Armageddon Time, which stars Jeremy Strong, Anthony Hopkins and Anne Hathaway, received fours (excellent) from Le Monde’s Mathieu Macheret and Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek.
- 5/21/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s drama received an average score of 2.1.
Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s The Eight Mountains landed just below Tchaikovsky’s Wife on Screen’s jury grid with an average score of 2.1.
The adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s Italian bestseller follows a male friendship spanning three decades and stars Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi and Filippo Timi.
The Italian-language film received a mixed reception from our jurors with four scores of two (average) and three scores of three (good).
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Le Monde’s Mathieu Macheret awarded the film a zero...
Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s The Eight Mountains landed just below Tchaikovsky’s Wife on Screen’s jury grid with an average score of 2.1.
The adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s Italian bestseller follows a male friendship spanning three decades and stars Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi and Filippo Timi.
The Italian-language film received a mixed reception from our jurors with four scores of two (average) and three scores of three (good).
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Le Monde’s Mathieu Macheret awarded the film a zero...
- 5/20/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Critics reviewing for 10 international outlets will join Screen’s own reviewing team to give their verdicts on each of the 21 films in Competition.
Screen International has revealed its critics for the jury grid that will run throughout the 2022 Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28).
Critics reviewing for 10 international outlets will join Screen’s own reviewing team to give their verdicts on each of the 21 films in Competition for the Palme d’Or this year.
This year Screen’s long-term Russian contributor to the jury, Anton Dolin, will be joined by his Ukrainian counterpart, Nataliia Serebriakova. Both have had to leave their...
Screen International has revealed its critics for the jury grid that will run throughout the 2022 Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28).
Critics reviewing for 10 international outlets will join Screen’s own reviewing team to give their verdicts on each of the 21 films in Competition for the Palme d’Or this year.
This year Screen’s long-term Russian contributor to the jury, Anton Dolin, will be joined by his Ukrainian counterpart, Nataliia Serebriakova. Both have had to leave their...
- 5/12/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
The next Marvel Cinematic Universe movie is nearly here, and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” promises to expand the MCU in a major way: by opening up the multiverse, of course.
First teased majorly in last year’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the multiverse paves the way for different iterations of the same character to populate the MCU as we know it, and “Doctor Strange 2” finds Benedict Cumberbatch’s titular sorcerer (along with Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff and some other friends) hopping from reality to reality, encountering different versions of themselves as well as new heroes destined to spawn new MCU franchises of their own.
The first “Doctor Strange 2” reviews are in ahead of the film’s May 6 release date, and while Marvel movies are usually fairly critic proof, last year’s “Eternals” – which was the first Marvel movie to earn largely negative reviews in years – stumbled at the box office.
First teased majorly in last year’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the multiverse paves the way for different iterations of the same character to populate the MCU as we know it, and “Doctor Strange 2” finds Benedict Cumberbatch’s titular sorcerer (along with Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff and some other friends) hopping from reality to reality, encountering different versions of themselves as well as new heroes destined to spawn new MCU franchises of their own.
The first “Doctor Strange 2” reviews are in ahead of the film’s May 6 release date, and while Marvel movies are usually fairly critic proof, last year’s “Eternals” – which was the first Marvel movie to earn largely negative reviews in years – stumbled at the box office.
- 5/3/2022
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Thursday night’s Omicron-delayed New York Film Critics Circle Awards dinner at Tao in the Meatpacking District in New York City gave many of this year’s Oscar nominees — and a few Oscar also-rans — a last chance to unbutton and let loose and celebrate before the big show finally, finally arrives a week from Sunday.
Attendees at the stylish and quite dimly lit event included NYFCC Best Director winner Jane Campion, who this time very carefully read her prewritten remarks off a piece of paper after her clearly riffed-upon Critics Choice Awards speech last weekend wrapped her up in backlash.
There was also Best First Film winner Maggie Gyllenhaal who, during arrivals on a cramped, packed swath of red carpet in Tao’s upstairs floor, swanned up to Best Foreign Language Film winner Joachim Trier and “Worst Person in the World” star Renate Reinsve. “I loved your movie,” Gyllenhaal, the...
Attendees at the stylish and quite dimly lit event included NYFCC Best Director winner Jane Campion, who this time very carefully read her prewritten remarks off a piece of paper after her clearly riffed-upon Critics Choice Awards speech last weekend wrapped her up in backlash.
There was also Best First Film winner Maggie Gyllenhaal who, during arrivals on a cramped, packed swath of red carpet in Tao’s upstairs floor, swanned up to Best Foreign Language Film winner Joachim Trier and “Worst Person in the World” star Renate Reinsve. “I loved your movie,” Gyllenhaal, the...
- 3/17/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Ever since Steven Spielberg’s magical adaptation of “West Side Story” first started screening last November, Mike Faist has slowly been gaining momentum for his charismatic, scene-stealing turn as Jets leader Riff. Critics were quick to single out Faist’s performance in the film’s already rave reviews. “A twitchy, wiry delight” hailed Robbie Collin of The Telegraph. “His dancing has a caffeinated, angular beauty”, wrote Stephanie Zacharek of Time Magazine. David Sims of The Atlantic concluded, “Faist’s sinewy, charged work as Riff is a real revelation”.
Critics groups quickly caught onto the buzz. Of the 20 regional circles that have chimed in since “West Side Story” started screening, Faist has received 10 nominations and nabbed a 3rd place prize at the National Society of Film Critics and a win at the Phoenix Critics Circle.
Despite a lack of wide visibility as well as screener issues inhibiting Faist’s momentum at...
Critics groups quickly caught onto the buzz. Of the 20 regional circles that have chimed in since “West Side Story” started screening, Faist has received 10 nominations and nabbed a 3rd place prize at the National Society of Film Critics and a win at the Phoenix Critics Circle.
Despite a lack of wide visibility as well as screener issues inhibiting Faist’s momentum at...
- 2/7/2022
- by Nick Bisa
- Gold Derby
Updated with new date: The New York Film Critics Circle said the new date for its previously postponed 2022 awards ceremony will be Wednesday, March 16 at Tao Downtown in Manhattan.
The group last month voted Japan’s Oscar submission Drive My Car as its Best Film, while Jane Campion was named Best Director for The Power of the Dog. Lady Gaga (House of Gucci) and Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog) won the Best Actress and Best Actor prizes, respectively.
NYFCC was forced to delay its annual awards gala to honor its winners later in December due to the latest surge in Covid cases.
Previously, December 21 Am: While the 2022 New York Film Critics Circle Awards were scheduled to take place at Tao Downtown in NYC on January 10, they’ve now been postponed due to the recent surge in Covid cases witnessed across the country, with a new date for the...
The group last month voted Japan’s Oscar submission Drive My Car as its Best Film, while Jane Campion was named Best Director for The Power of the Dog. Lady Gaga (House of Gucci) and Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog) won the Best Actress and Best Actor prizes, respectively.
NYFCC was forced to delay its annual awards gala to honor its winners later in December due to the latest surge in Covid cases.
Previously, December 21 Am: While the 2022 New York Film Critics Circle Awards were scheduled to take place at Tao Downtown in NYC on January 10, they’ve now been postponed due to the recent surge in Covid cases witnessed across the country, with a new date for the...
- 1/24/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Four years after Rachel Morrison cracked the glass ceiling as the first woman to be nominated for Best Cinematography at the Oscars with her bid for “Mudbound” (2017), Ari Wegner is poised to become the second for her work on Jane Campion‘s “The Power of the Dog.” And since Morrison was unable to parlay her nomination into a victory, Wegner would become the first female Dp to win an Oscar if she triumphs for the Netflix film.
Based on Thomas Savage‘s 1967 novel of the same name, “The Power of the Dog” is set in 1920s Montana and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank, a rough-and-tumble rancher whose anger and bitterness have hardened him over the years and eventually set up a confrontation with his brother’s new wife (Kirsten Dunst) and her teenage son (Kodi Smit-McPhee). For her work on the film, which earned rave review after rave review,...
Based on Thomas Savage‘s 1967 novel of the same name, “The Power of the Dog” is set in 1920s Montana and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank, a rough-and-tumble rancher whose anger and bitterness have hardened him over the years and eventually set up a confrontation with his brother’s new wife (Kirsten Dunst) and her teenage son (Kodi Smit-McPhee). For her work on the film, which earned rave review after rave review,...
- 12/30/2021
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
Drive My Car It was the year when everything was supposed to go back to normal: cinemas would reopen, and people would once again sit among strangers to enjoy a deluge of films (new and delayed) all while the pandemic would recede into the background. That things didn’t unfold according to plan is quite the understatement, but after the annus horribilis that was 2020, it’s difficult not to think of 2021 as an “exuberant, celebratory spring,” to borrow from Time’s Stephanie Zacharek, “a celebratory season of light after months of darkness.” Yes, Covid is still among us, and the future of the medium (and of moviegoing as we knew it) is all but certain, but 2021 did treat us to a bounty of memorable movies, many of which are now bobbing up in the cascade of year-end polls and best-of lists. Once again, flicking through these provides more than just...
- 12/22/2021
- MUBI
The real novelty of Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson’s ninth feature, may have much less to do with the film’s locale and plot than its tone. Set in 1973 in the San Fernando Valley of the director’s childhood, the film chronicles the unlikely friendship-cum-maybe-romance between fifteen-year-old child actor and precocious entrepreneur Gary and a young woman ten years his senior, Alana. Sprawling and laid-back, replete with narrative cul-de-sacs, cameos, and oddball tangents, Licorice Pizza marks an abrupt rupture from the austere formalism of some of Anderson’s other works—think The Master or the more recent Phantom Thread. As Richard Lawson argues at Vanity Fair, "Over his brilliant, wandering career, Anderson has shown us plenty of scuzz and grime, alongside flashes of kinetic verve and primordial howl. But Licorice Pizza is, by some measure, his most deliberately pleasant film to date. It’s a lively, messy coming-of-age story...
- 12/16/2021
- MUBI
Welcome to Oscar Experts Typing, a weekly column in which Gold Derby editors and Experts Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen discuss the Oscar race — via Slack, of course. This week, we take a closer look at the most anticipated film of the holiday weekend (the season? the year?), “House of Gucci.”
Christopher Rosen: Hello, Joyce! It’s Thanksgiving week and I’m thankful for not just my family and health and our weekly chats, but also the father, the son and the “House of Gucci.” Ridley Scott’s second big adult drama that would have felt right at home in the fall of 1998 to come out this year is a lavish, overstuffed affair — a perfect feast for Thanksgiving, as it were. Reviews for the film were posted this week, and they’ve been a bit on the mixed side (66 percent on Rotten Tomatoes as we’re typing), but the awards...
Christopher Rosen: Hello, Joyce! It’s Thanksgiving week and I’m thankful for not just my family and health and our weekly chats, but also the father, the son and the “House of Gucci.” Ridley Scott’s second big adult drama that would have felt right at home in the fall of 1998 to come out this year is a lavish, overstuffed affair — a perfect feast for Thanksgiving, as it were. Reviews for the film were posted this week, and they’ve been a bit on the mixed side (66 percent on Rotten Tomatoes as we’re typing), but the awards...
- 11/26/2021
- by Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Following up on her 2016 feature debut, Raw, which chronicled a veterinary-cum-vegetarian student’s pivot to cannibalism, Julia Ducournau pushes her fascination for the pliability of human flesh to even further extremes with Titane. The film, awarded the Palme d’Or in Cannes earlier this year—only the second time the top prize is given to a woman director—kicks off with a near-fatal car accident, after which Alexia is left with a titanium plate fixed to her skull and a seemingly insatiable appetite for the vehicular. Next we see her, she’s turned into a serial killer and a car show dancer. In one outrageous early sequence, she’s impregnated by a Cadillac. Following a killing spree that sends her on the lam, she disfigures herself to pass as a boy gone missing years prior, Adrien, and finds an unlikely refuge in Vincent (Vincent Lindon), a middle-aged firefighter who welcomes her back as his son,...
- 10/27/2021
- MUBI
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