Latest by Ben Croll
Venice
Filmmaker Valerio Mastandrea stars in this melancholic ghost story about the souls of coma patients.
Venice
Venice: The Japanese auteur fills his 66-minute runtime with more humor than you'll find in quite a few longer films.
Venice
Venice: Closing out a triptych that previously ran through “Youth (Spring)” and “Youth (Hard Times),” Wang Bing’s final panel in his granular account of Middle Kingdom sweatshops wraps the trilogy in paradox.
Cannes
Cannes: The daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni is at the center of the film, basically a very Fellini-esque episode of “Call My Agent!" stretched to feature length.
Cannes
Directors' Fortnight head Julien Rejl tells IndieWire why the sidebar is never about pleasing "all the major forces at play" and instead offers a springboard for enfants terribles.
Cannes
Cannes: Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel, and Raphaël Quenard star in the filmmaker's latest comedy about a troupe of actors trying to escape a middling film.
Film Review
The "Toni Erdmann" and "Zone of Interest" star plays an author whose husband dies — and in a scenario much like an incident in one of her own novels.
Film Review
Wang Bing’s immersive, 3.5-hour opus heralds a welcome return of the documentary genre to the Cannes Palme d’Or race.
Film Review
Yes, Johnny Depp co-stars in the controversial feature, but this is the Maïwenn show, for better and for worse.
Film Review
The filmmaker trades the capital-H history of “Phoenix” and romantic fantasy of “Undine” for a more subdued — and sometimes surprisingly funny — character study.
Berlin: Angela Schanelec's formally impressive film boggles as much as it allures.
Film Review
Mirren is unsurprisingly terrific, but Guy Nattiv’s film is frustratingly superficial.
