Tag Archives: Cannes 2022

Though there have been plenty of eye-catching films among this year’s competition titles (Holy Spider, Decision To Leave, the divisive Triangle Of Sadness), none have really had the heft of a worthy Palme d’Or recipient. None too have felt like the sort of picture that goes on to have a …

A budding young cartoonist’s picaresque rite of passage forms an entertaining foundation for this lo-fi feature debut from New York director Owen Kline, a protégé of the Safdie brothers who appears to have a direct line to the scrappy, nervous energy of early ’70s cinema. Playing in the Directors’ Fortnight …

The Cruiser brought Cannes to a standstill on Wednesday (March 18), where the French premiere of Top Gun: Maverick was preceded by an hour-long “hommage” to its seemingly unstoppable star. In truth, some of the shine had been taken off this festival coup by Paramount’s decision to hold the film’s …