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Film Reviews

Close readings of new and recent releases — European cinema and beyond.

2024

Musical — France

Emília Pérez

Audiard’s audacious, flawed, unmissable Cannes entry.
Drama — USA/Poland

A Real Pain

Jesse Eisenberg, stripped back and honest. Kieran Culkin, career-best.

2023

Anatomy of a Fall Palme d’Or

Anatomy of a Fall

The best film of 2023. A trial as epistemological crisis.
Grand Prix

The Zone of Interest

Glazer’s masterpiece of withholding. Sound as moral argument.
Romance — USA/Korea

Past Lives

Celine Song’s debut. Grief for futures that never happened.
Venice Silver Lion

Evil Does Not Exist

Hamaguchi’s quietest film. The most unsettling ending of the year.
Drama — UK

All of Us Strangers

Andrew Haigh. Andrew Scott. Precisely as sad as it needs to be.