San Sebastian Film Review: ‘The Odyssey’
If you're going to title your film "The Odyssey," you need to be pretty certain it's got enough narrative heft and thrust to justify the Homeric allusion.
Guy Lodge
San Sebastian Film Review: ‘Pretenders’
A lithe little psychological puzzler in which lives are stolen, swapped and quite possibly ruined in the space of one ostensibly tranquil weekend.
San Sebastian Film Review: ‘Porto’
A film that's in love with love, in love with cinema, and concerned that neither is built to last.
San Sebastian Film Review: ‘Flemish Heaven’
Though it deftly eschews moral judgment of its own, Belgian helmer Peter Monsaert's "Flemish Heaven" is likely to provoke all manner of debate among its viewers.
San Sebastian Film Review: ‘Smoke and Mirrors’
It may only represent the film's Spanish distribution route, but there's something entirely apt-feeling about the familiar Warner Bros. badge at the front of Alberto Rodriguez's "Smoke and Mirrors."
Film Review: ‘David Lynch: The Art Life’
That hoary old question of whether life imitates art or art imitates life is refreshingly irrelevant in the case of certain creative beings, for whom art is life and vice versa.
San Sebastian Film Review: ‘150 Milligrams’
Director Emmanuelle Bercot begins "150 Milligrams" with a rare stab at lyricism in what is otherwise a bluntly literal, plain-as-day procedural drama.
Film Review: ‘Austerlitz’
"Cool story, bro." It's the most incidental of visual details, glimpsed at the edge of one of "Austerlitz's" many exactingly composed frames.
As ‘Jackie’ Crashes the Oscar Party, Venice’s Kingmaker Status Is Confirmed
The explosion of Pablo Larrain's Jackie Kennedy biopic into the race reminds that Venice remains a strong force in Oscar season
Toronto Film Review: ‘Blair Witch’
If you go down to the woods today, well, you're not in for the biggest of surprises.
Venice Film Review: ‘Home’
This suitably rough-edged, raw-nerved kids-are-not-all-right drama fixates on technology as one of many communication barriers between contemporary adolescents and their parents.
