Tag: Jesse Eisenberg
2024 Golden Globe Awards: Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist & Anora Take Pole Positions
It'll be a Cannes Film Festival competition rematch alongside the critical darling (Best Director) winning competition film from the Venice Film Festival. Emilia Pérez...
2024 Sundance: A Different Man, The Outrun, Winner & Sasquatch Sunset Among Premieres
Sundance Film Festival's Premiere section (a mix of fiction and docs) will have some biggie titles to contend with the likes of Aaron Schimberg's...
2024 Sundance: Jesse Eisenberg, Sean Wang, Laura Chinn, India Donaldson & Zucheros in U.S. Dramatic Comp
The big surprise for the U.S. Dramatic Competition this year is they shaved off two titles making a dozen into a ten piece. We...
Manodrome | Review
Wrecked Ralph: Trengove Gazes into the Weaponization of Masculinity in Unsettling Character Study
Playwright and activist Eve Ensler commented on a 2017 panel regarding how...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain
After launching When You Finish Saving the World (which we called "while neither revolutionary nor rudimentary, it’s a surprisingly sober and mature portrait on...
When You Finish Saving the World | Review
A Tube with a View: Eisenberg Debuts Gentle Narrative on Misplaced Intentions
‘Familiarity breeds contempt,’ could have been the tagline for Jesse Eisenberg’s lovely, low-key...
2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Critics’ Week
Aftersun - Charlotte Wells
Alma viva - Cristèle Alves Meira
Imagine - Ali Behrad
La jauría - Andrés Ramírez Pulido
Love According to Dalva - Emmanuelle...
2022 Cannes: Goutte d’Or, Alma Viva & The Woodcutter Story Among Critics’ Week Selections
The newly minted "French Touch" award could easily define Critics' Week topper Ava Cahen's first line-up edition - as the 2022 slate is full...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Phyllis Nagy, Lena Dunham, Jesse Eisenberg, John Patton Ford & Hazanavicius Fill Premieres Section
In the Premieres section you'll usually find a mix of studio unveilings and high profile acquisitions titles and in the almost equal split between...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jesse Eisenberg’s When You Finish Saving the World
Everyone knows the actor, but we might have to think of him differently in the year ahead. Jesse Eisenberg's When You Finish Saving the...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Riley Stearns’ Dual
Riley Stearns headed to the Nordic country for his latest feature. Filmed during the pandemic, the shot in Finland Dual should have had enough...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.’s Wild Indian
His short film Shinaab was featured at the 2017 edition of Sundance (he also received some TLC from TIFF not once, but twice) and...
Resistance | Review
The Wages of Ham: Jakubowicz Mimes Melodrama in Offkey Resistance
For his third film, Venezuelan born Jonathan Jakubowicz falls headlong into an acceptable faux pas...
Vivarium | Review
Life as a House: Beware the Burbs in Finnegan’s Metaphorical Sophomore Feature
The novelty of Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone,” or any of its various...
Exclusive Clip: Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance
Jesse Eisenberg stars as Marcel Marceau in Jonathan Jakubowicz's Resistance. A war time drama starring Ed Harris, Édgar Ramírez, Clémence Poésy and Matthias Schweighöfer...
Interview: Riley Stearns – The Art of Self-Defense | 2019 American Film Festival in Wroclaw
A meek, introverted loner turns to karate as a way of coping with trauma after being violently attacked in Riley Stearns follow-up to 2014’s...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #42. Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self Defense
The Art of Self Defense
Taking his sweet time in the post production process (filming took place in September of 2017 with Jesse Eisenberg in...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #8. Riley Stearns – The Art of Self Defense
A sophomore film we thought might be ready for the 2018 campaign will walk and chop into 2019 instead with a distributor already in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #80. Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self Defense
The Art of Self Defense
Riley Stearns' 2013 Sundance preemed short, The Cub along with the 2015's SXSW preemed feature debut Faults which we called "deviously...
Café Society | Review
The Beautiful and the Consigned: Allen’s Latest Instance of Compromised Love
Like all of Woody Allen’s features over the decades, his latest examination of humans...
Louder Than Bombs | Review
Another Time, Another Place: Trier’s Graceful, Quiet English Language Debut
Norwegian director Joachim Trier reteams with his regular scribe Eskil Vogt for Louder Than Bombs,...
American Ultra | Review
The Long Spliff Goodnight: Nourizadeh’s Stoner Action Flick Mixes Kooky with Convention
Comprised of a tangle of similar narrative threads spliced together from a variety...
The End of the Tour | Review
The Admiration Game: Ponsoldt’s Moving Homage to Artist and Artistry
Following the critical successes of 2012’s Smashed and 2013’s The Spectacular Now, director James Ponsoldt...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Flash Mob Sides with Trier’s “Louder than Bombs”
There are a swarm of cinephiles out there who became instant, cult-like fans of his first work (2006's Reprise) and his sophomore film in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #3. Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs
Louder Than Bombs
Director: Joachim Trier // Writers: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
With only two features under his belt, Norwegian director Joachim Trier remains at the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour
Three times lucky and fourth time the charm? Depending on who ask, The End of the Tour, the book to screen adaptation of David Lipsky's...