Tag: Simon Russell Beale

Firebrand | Review

One Survived: Ainouz Attempts to Give a Queen Her Due The Tudor era has maintained public fascination for the past five hundred years, a linchpin...

Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5

A mainstay in the Un Certain Regard section (with a whopping four films as director/writer) and has sprinkled his films in Venice and Berlinale...

Benediction | Review

Words of War: Davies Recuperates Another Poet in Impressionistic Biopic Following the critical success of his masterful portrait of Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion...

Operation Mincemeat | Review

Get Them to the Greek: Madden Traipses Lightly Through Factual WWII Espionage Despite it’s presentation as a frothy pseudo-comedy, the events transpiring in John...

Radioactive | Review

Particle Decay: Satrapi Explores Curie in Elliptical, Stunted Biopic The persona of Marie Curie is a no-brainer as far as cinematic importance and appeal goes,...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #150. Operation Mincemeat – John Madden

Operation Mincemeat Moving into his fourth decade of filmmaking, British director John Madden returns with a major pull the rug WWII drama in Operation Mincemeat....

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #107. Radioactive – Marjane Satrapi

Radioactive Marjane Satrapi continues to work in the English language with fifth feature, Radioactive, a UK production financed through Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of...

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Jeunes mères (Young Mothers) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Bonjour Tristesse: The Dardenne Bros. Explore Teenage Pregnancy In their...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’

While she has dropped world premieres at Sundance and...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Dardenne Bros.’ ‘Jeunes mères’

Winner of the Palme d'Or for 1999's Rosetta (which...