Amanda Yam

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Ten Thousand Saints | Review I

East Village Ennui: Coming of Age Story Displaced, Too Hip For Own Good A coming of age narrative comprised of the familiar: teen angst, frustration,...

Meru | Review

Treacherous Journey to The Top Shows Unmeasured Determination At over 20,000 feet, the highest peak of the Meru Mountain, also known as the Shark’s Fin,...

Big Significant Things | Review

Eager Yet Flawed: Indie Darling is Safe-Guarded and Traditional Brian Reisberg's debut feature has many of the usual markings of an indie sleeper hit but like an...

Irrational Man | Review

Tepid Contemplation: The Unraveling of a Mild Murder Plot For his 46th feature film, Irrational Man calls upon Woody Allen’s fascination, or at least tendency to create a...

What Happened, Miss Simone? | Review

Writing on the Wall: Garbus Offers Compressed Portrait of Soul-Gospel-Jazz Queen Nina Simone, a prominent musician-turned-civil-rights-activist, left behind a legacy in which the latter part...

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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Lukas Dhont’s ‘Coward’

From Belgium, Lukas Dhont makes his third trip to...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo’s ‘The Black Ball’

Virtual unknowns in non-Spanish speaking markets, Javier Ambrossi and...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Ira Sachs’ ‘The Man I Love’

He has been owning Sundance since he premiered 1996...

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Emmanuel Marre’s ‘Notre Salut’

A relative newcomer to cinema with only the co-directed...
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