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The Daily
May 19, 2018 — All agree that the drama set in the slums of Beirut is gripping, but is it too manipulative?
The Daily
May 17, 2018 — High praise for the Korean director’s first film in eight years.
The Daily
May 14, 2018 — A fable, a social critique, and a frontrunner for the top prize.
May 14, 2018 — In the singular world of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, auteurist homage and social consciousness are joined by some of the most lovingly filmed dogs in contemporary cinema.
The Daily
May 12, 2018 — The five-part essay film is “infused in equal measures by despair and aspiration.”
The Daily
May 12, 2018 — An urgent dispatch from the conflict in eastern Ukraine is winning plaudits from critics.
On the Channel
May 10, 2018 — A new series on the Criterion Channel looks back at the political turmoil that brought down the 1968 Cannes Film Festival.
May 8, 2018 — Horror movies are often understood as products of the imagination, but in the case of Caroline Monnet and Daniel Watchorn’s work, the conventions of the genre are grounded in stories of real-life injustice. Set in a Canadian residential school for...
May 6, 2018 — Cannes 2018 One of the major highlights of the ongoing, year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ingmar Bergman will be the presentation of a 4K restoration of The Seventh Seal (1957) as part of this year’s...
Essays
May 4, 2018 — What do we mean when we say a narrative film is poetic? The answer lies in this visionary western from director Jim Jarmusch.