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Director: Leos Carax
Writer: Russell Mael
Cast: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg
IMDb Rating: 6.3
A Fever Dream Opera Where Love Curdles Into Spectacle
Leos Carax’s Annette is not a movie you watch it’s one you survive. A delirious, darkly romantic rock opera penned by Sparks, this is cinema as exorcism: a swirling storm of artistic ego, toxic love, and puppetry so unsettling it borders on horror. Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard don’t just perform here; they’re sacrificial lambs on the altar of Carax’s wild, untamed vision. Driver’s Henry McHenry is a monster masquerading as a provocateur, his stand-up act less comedy than public self-flagellation. When he howls “We Love Each Other So Much” with Cotillard’s ethereal soprano Ann, the irony is thicker than...
Director: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Writer: Steven Levenson
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesús
IMDb Rating: 7.5
A Love Letter to Artistic Obsession That Never Misses a Beat
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tick, Tick… Boom! is less a directorial debut than a lightning rod for creative anxiety a film that vibrates with the urgency of an artist racing against time. Adapted from Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical musical, this isn’t just a tribute to the Rent composer; it’s a raw, glittering excavation of the terror and exhilaration of making art before your dreams (or the rent) crush you. Andrew Garfield delivers a performance so electrically alive it’s hard to believe he’s acting. His Larson is a whirlwind of charm, insecurity, and manic energy, his voice cracking with passion even in the quieter...
Director: Céline Sciamma
Writer: Céline Sciamma
Cast: Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse
IMDb Rating: 7.4
A Whisper of Magic in the Space Between Goodbyes
Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman is the kind of film that feels like a secret a delicate, 72-minute reverie that lingers long after its gentle ending. Following the luminous Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Sciamma trades grand romance for quiet alchemy, crafting a fairy tale so subtle you might mistake it for memory. Eight-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) wanders the emptied house of her recently deceased grandmother, her small hands sorting through relics of a life she barely knew. When she meets Marion (Gabrielle Sanz), a girl her age building a fort in the woods, the film unfolds with the logic...
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Writer: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette
IMDb Rating: 7.0
A Noir Carnival of Broken Souls and Poisonous Illusions
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley is a film that slithers a gorgeously grotesque descent into the abyss of human deception, where every character is both predator and prey. This isn’t the 1947 original with its hard-boiled fatalism; it’s something richer, more operatic, a carnival mirror reflecting our own hunger for belief in a world built on lies. Bradley Cooper’s Stanton Carlisle is a revelation a hollow man who learns to perform humanity so well he forgets he’s acting. His journey from carny grunt to high-society spiritualist is less a rise than a slow-motion collapse, each con digging his grave deeper....
Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Writer: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Cast: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson
IMDb Rating: 6.7
A Piercing Portrait of Motherhood’s Unspoken Fractures
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter is not a film about the joys of motherhood. It’s not even really about the sacrifices of motherhood. It’s about the quiet, gnawing terror of realizing you might not be cut out for it at all and the even more terrifying freedom that follows. Adapted from Elena Ferrante’s novel, this is a psychological thriller disguised as a sun-soaked vacation drama, where the real danger isn’t in the shadows but in the mirror. Olivia Colman, in a performance so raw it feels almost invasive, plays Leda, a middle-aged professor whose solitary Greek holiday is disrupted by...
Recent Reviews
- • Annette 6.3
- • tick, tick... BOOM! 7.5
- • Petite Maman 7.4
- • Nightmare Alley 7.0
- • The Lost Daughter 6.7
- • CODA 8.0
- • West Side Story 7.1
- • The Tragedy of Macbeth 7.1
- • Pig 6.9
- • The Green Knight 6.6
- • Licorice Pizza 7.1
- • Belfast 7.2
- • The French Dispatch 7.1
- • Nomadland 7.3
- • Drive My Car 7.5
- • The Power of the Dog 6.8
- • Dune 8.0
- • Bones and All 6.8
- • Women Talking 6.9
- • Triangle of Sadness 7.3
- • The Northman 7.0
- • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 7.1
- • Nope 6.8
- • Decision to Leave 7.3
- • TÁR 7.4
- • Prey 7.1
- • Holy Spider 7.3
- • Red Rocket 7.1
- • The Eternal Daughter 5.9
- • After Yang 6.6
- • Happening 7.4
- • RRR 7.8
- • The Fabelmans 7.5
- • Aftersun 7.6
- • The Worst Person in the World 7.7
- • Everything Everywhere All at Once 7.8
- • The Banshees of Inisherin 7.7
- • The Menu 7.2
- • Parallel Mothers 7.1
- • Drive My Car 7.5
- • The Promised Land 7.7
- • Poor Things 7.8
- • 21 Grams 7.6
- • A Beautiful Mind 8.2
- • The Pianist 8.5
- • Rain Man 8.0
- • Alien 8.5
- • Insomnia 7.2
- • Bruce Almighty 6.8
- • Meet Joe Black 7.2
- • Casablanca 8.5
- • Fargo 8.1
- • Natural Born Killers 7.2
- • The Terminator 8.1
- • Dead Poets Society 8.1
- • Hotel Rwanda 8.1
- • Amélie 8.3
- • Sin City 8.0
- • A Clockwork Orange 8.2
- • Lost in Translation 7.7
- • Donnie Darko 8.0
- • Groundhog Day 8.0
- • The Untouchables 7.8
- • Scarface 8.3
- • Snatch 8.2
- • Léon: The Professional 8.5
- • Million Dollar Baby 8.1
- • Twelve Monkeys 8.0
- • Gangubai Kathiawadi 7.8
- • The Fifth Element 7.6