Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 3
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 3
Americas
Cannes Film Festival: Bacurau (2019)
★★★★☆
Bacurau by Kleber Mendonça Filho is an exhilarating mixture of genres – political satire, western, science fiction – underpinned by savage political and social comment. It’s a blast.
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 2
span style=”color:#D1A316″>★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival Day 2
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 1
★★★★☆
Opening Film Cannes Premiere – an ubercool deadpan zombie horror comedy by Jim Jarmusch that never quite come alive.
Birds of Passage (2018)
★★★★☆
In Birds of Passage, directed by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the violent birth of Colombia’s drug trade destroys a unique traditional culture.
Amazing Grace (2018)
★★★★★
The late, great Aretha Franklin raises the roof singing gospel in Sidney Pollack’s unmissable Amazing Grace 1972 documentary.
Madeline’s Madeline (2018)
★★★★☆
Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline is a fragmented collage in image and sound of impressions – a disorientating, passionate welter of dreams, fantasy and reality – that tries to get inside the conflicted head of a 16-year-old aspiring actress.
Sundance London (2019)
★★★★☆
Sundance London 2019
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition
★★★★☆
Enter the unmissable Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition at the Design Museum to see treasures from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive and experience new insights into his films.
Dr Strangelove (1964)
★★★★★
The Cold War classic Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is re-released in the Stanley Kubrick season prefaced with a new short documentary Stanley Kubrick Considers The Bomb.
Vox Lux (2018)
★★☆☆☆
Vox Lux, Brady Corbet’s second film, is the imagined biography of a fictional pop star played uncomfortably by Natalie Portman.
Eighth Grade (2018)
★★★★★
The pressures and anxieties of a 14-year-old girl navigating eighth grade in the social media age are put under the microscope in writer/director Bo Burnham’s achingly observant little gem Eighth Grade.
Mid90s (2018)
★★★☆☆
Jonah Hill’s Mid90s is an affectionate, coming-of-age time capsule of skateboards, street life, hip-hop, pop culture moments and stoners.
Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
★★★☆☆
Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughan are cops going brutally rogue in Dragged Across Concrete, S. Craig Zahler’s third film after Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99.