7+ hour, 6+ min ago   (1108+ words) ‘Onwards and Sideways’ Review: Laughter Becomes the Best Medicine in Laura Linney Starrer About Living with Parkinson’s [B+] TIFF AwardsWatch In Britain, two people are diagnosed with Parkinson’s every hour. In John Madden’s (Shakespeare in Love) new film, Onwards and…...

8+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1362+ words) ‘Tender Loving Care’ Review: Kate O’Flynn is Extraordinary in Mike Leigh’s Heart-Shattering Swan Song [A-] AwardsWatch In an interview with “Vanity Fair,” master filmmaker Mike Leigh described the idiosyncrasies of his unorthodox filmmaking process. Leigh has made movies his own…...

15+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1080+ words) ‘Closing Night’ Review: Sarah Paulson is Literally Mother in Cody Fern’s Delicious Melodrama Mad Libs Debut Feature [B] TIFF AwardsWatch As an actor looking to direct your first feature, you could do a lot worse than choosing a family melodrama....

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (779+ words) ‘A Good Little Soldier (Un bon petit soldat)’ Review: Stéphane Brizé’s Takedown of Corporate Phoniness is a Triumph [A] Venice awardswatch.com For those familiar with the work of French director Stéphane Brizé, you’ll have a pretty good idea of…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (980+ words) ‘Club Kid’ Review: Jordan Firstman’s Gay Peter Pan Party Boy Tale Hits Telluride as One of the Year’s Best Films [A-] awardswatch.com You might have loved Jordan Firstman even before you knew it. Remember the ode to Laura Dern…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1645+ words) Still fresh off their Best Director prize at Cannes, collaborators Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo (popularly known as “Los Javis”) took their award-winning movie La Bola Negra to the Telluride Film Festival. At Telluride, Los Javis took us deeper into…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (818+ words) ‘Look Back’ Review: Hirokazu Koreeda’s Second Effort of 2026 is a Tender Sensory Ode to Youth [A-] Venice AwardsWatch Back-to-back premieres at the world’s three major film festivals are rare feats; Krzysztof Kieślowski’s grand slam with the Three Colors trilogy remains…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (774+ words) ‘La Bola Negra’ Review: Magic and Maximalism Mix in Los Javis’ Stunning Gay Extravaganza [A] Telluride AwardsWatch If you’ve ever wanted a movie that is a Spanish tenebrismo of Evita, The Hours, The English Patient and Beau Travail, have I…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (765+ words) ‘Possible Love’ Review: Lee Chang-dong Returns with Searing Treatise on Exploiting Human Connection [A] Venice AwardsWatch Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love, premiering at the Venice Film Festival, joins a recent thread of South Korean films reckoning with inequality and class envy....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (288+ words) “One of the most controversial things I’ve done is stick around.” That means it’s also been six years since the last episode of Talking Madonna with Erik and Abdi, a series where celebrated author and producer Abdi Nazemian and I…...