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2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Robin Campillo Finds a Cure with BPM (Beats Per Minute)
With not one, but two items in Cannes this year (the other being L'Atelier from Laurent Cantet in the Un Certain Regard section), Robin...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Kornel Mundruczo’s Jupiter’s Moon Has Trouble Getting Off Ground
In comp for his third time and at the fest for a sixth time, Kornel Mundruczo was expected to move back into the fight...
The Square | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Attenberg Follies: Ostlund’s Meta Commentary Skewers Social Contrivances
Adding to a body of work which comically and obsessively examines the underbelly of human desires and...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Bong Joon-Ho Has No Pet Peeve’s with Okja
He first hit the Croisette with another "creature movie" in 2006 with the Directors' Fortnight included The Host, and after showings of Tokyo! (2008)...
Let the Sunshine In | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Tall Dark Stranger: Denis and Binoche are Remarkable Bedfellows in Light Comedy
Claire Denis comes as close as she ever will to romantic comedy...
Wakefield | Review
A Most Wanted Man: Swicord Hangs Doctorow on the Snide Shoulders of Cranston
For evidence of Bryan Cranston’s ability to carry a film, look no...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Andrey Zvyagintsev Makes No Mistakes with Loveless
Technically the first film to show as it was offered early yesterday night, this is the Russian filmmaker's fourth trip to the Croisette out of his...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Fossil fuels Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck
The first 8:30 a.m. press screening was a little bit of a nightmare for journos with security measures but into place that were extra...
Wonderstruck | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Time After Time: Haynes Captures Wistful Tone of Bygone Eras
American indie auteur Todd Haynes explores dual cinematic pastiche in his most family friendly film...
Loveless | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Some Great Reward: Zvyagintsev Rips into Missing Muscovites
Bitter familial separation and newly fermented coupling are equal bed partners in what staunchly begins as...
Live from Cannes 2017: Introducing Our Cannes Critics’ Panel
With no over three hour Romanian or Turkish film offerings, the 70th edition of Cannes with its nineteen Comp items is a rather lean...
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail | Review
Financial Risk: Steve James Banks on Chinatown Community Bank and Finds Political Returns
Steve James has a habit of sticking up for the little guy, as...
Alien: Covenant | Review
This Time It’s More: Scott Repeats the Beats of Initial Sci-Fi Classic for Sequel Prequel
There comes a time when too much tinkering with one...
The Conversation: Run the Comps – Top 5 Most Anticipated Main Comp Entries
It’s back to business as usual for the main competition contenders at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, with programmer Thierry Fremaux re-inviting a number...
Paris Can Wait | Review
Forget Paris: Lane is a Fine Vintage from the Coppola Vineyards
At the age of eighty, Eleanor Coppola makes her narrative feature debut with the...
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | Review
Le Morte d’Arthur: Ritchie Bastardizes another Icon
In the same punchy tradition in which he usurped Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for two studio Sherlock Holmes...
Snatched | Review
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Trainwreck: Levine Streamlines the Diffident Return of Hawn into So-So Mother-Daughter Comedy
More often than note, notable actresses...
Right Now, Wrong Then | Blu-ray Review
Recently formed distribution label Grasshopper Film has already managed to build a formidable reputation by saving a number of auteur driven art-house titles from...
The Conversation: Regarding Un Certain Regard – Top 3 Most Anticipated Picks
Entering its 39th year of existence, parallel sidebar Un Certain Regard once more sports a mixture of intriguing newcomers alongside noted auteurs in the...
IONCINEMA.com 6.0
Nicholas Bell and I will be in the trenches (to be precise: Day 9 / week 2 ) of Cannes Film Festival when IONCINEMA.com...
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | Review
A surprise hit when it surpassed expectations back in 2014, James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy raked in over 700 million at the box...
The Dinner | Review
Principles of Privilege: Moverman Dresses Morality Drama in American Clothes
Susan Sontag once famously wrote, “The white race is the cancer of human history,” an...
The Lovers | Review
The One You’re With: Jacobs Brings Mature Gaze to Dark Marital Comedy
Imagine if George and Martha actually had allowed themselves the opportunity to derive...
A Woman’s Life | Review
When a Potiche Ascends the Stairs: Brizé’s Winning, Textured de Maupassant Adaptation
Although cinematic adaptations of French writer Guy de Maupassant still occur with some...
The Conversation: Top 3 Most Anticipated Directors’ Fortnight Picks: Denis, Baker & Dumont
Cannes 2017 is already a notable edition thanks to the festival's inclusion of auteur helmed television entries, and (to the chagrin of some traditional...
The Circle | Review
Like a Record Round: Ponsoldt Spins the Wheels with Silly Tech Thriller
James Ponsoldt launches uneasily into mainstream studio territory with the internet thriller The...
Everybody’s Life | 2017 COLCOA French Film Festival Review
Au Beaune Pain: Lelouch Continues with Frivolous Comedy Spackle
Somewhere along the way Palme d'Or and Oscar winning auteur Claude Lelouch (1966’s A Man and...
Rupture | Review
Walking into Spiderwebs: Shainberg Returns with Characterless Genre Effort
A decade after the somewhat unwarranted critical drubbing of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus...
Criterion Collection: Rumble Fish | Blu-ray Review
The 1980s began roughly for Francis Ford Coppola, one of the most lionized American auteurs ever, whose streak of the 1970s was an unmitigated...
Daughters of the Dust | Blu-ray Review
Potent words open up Julie Dash’s masterful debut, the landmark independent feature Daughters of the Dust (1991). A matriarch, grappling with her family’s (including...
Ice Mother |2017 Tribeca Film Festival Review
All That Weather Allows: Slama Formulates Empathetic Character Drama from Microwaved Melodrama
Taking a page from a formula established by Douglas Sirk’s classic soapy melodrama...
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki | Review
On a Black and White Day You Can See Forever: Kuosmanen Pleasantly Upends Expectations with Debut
Dressed up as a historical biopic of Finnish boxer...
Unforgettable | Review
It Must Have Been Love: Di Novi Debuts with Classic Camp Tropes
For her directorial debut, Unforgettable, producer Denise Di Novi attempts to resurrect the...
Slack Bay | Review
Bay of Pigs: Dumont Sails Away into Macabre Absurdity
Stated best within the immortal and oft referenced introduction to Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, “Happy families are...
The Student | Review
Class Act: Serebrennikov Illustrates the Perils of Fundamentalism
Kirill Serebrennikov, one of several rising auteurs from Russia’s troubling political regime, reaches his widest platform yet...
Criterion Collection: Buena Vista Social Club | Blu-ray Review
The name Buena Vista Social Club is a recycled moniker, one which has acquired several layers of cultural resonance since it became absorbed into...
The Conversation: Courting Quinzaine
Following last week’s announcement of the main competition program, all eyes are now focused on Edouard Waintrop’s selection for the 2017 Directors' Fortnight (April...
The Fate of the Furious | Review
Fated Attraction: Gray Delivers the Expected in Mind Numbing Franchise Entry
Following the box office success of 2015’s Straight Outta Compton, his most relevant in...
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea | Review
Teenage Dirtbag, Baby: Shaw’s Odd, Amusing Portrait of Stylized Teen Angst
If some teenage version of Reading Rainbow coughed up a hallucinatory fever dream into...
The Lost City of Z | Review
Zed and Buried: Gray’s Period Adventure a Meticulous Throwback of Epic Filmmaking
American auteur James Gray unveils his most provocative film yet with the painstaking,...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Logan Sandler’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Logan Sandler (Live Cargo)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This month we feature American indie helmer Logan...
The Conversation: Producer Christine Vachon
Not only a trailblazer but continual champion of queer film, producer Christine Vachon continues to be one of the most prolific risk takers in...
Sweet Country | Review
Once Upon a Time in Australia: Thornton’s Western-inspired Saga of Violent Racial Discrimination
Racial tensions in Australian society are given historic treatment in the outback-Western...
The Ticket | Review
To Gain the World: Fluk’s Allegorical Fairy Tale Treads Perfunctory Territory
Pope Francis described materialism as ‘spiritual cancer’ in that the idolatry of earthly possessions...
Their Finest | Review
A Screen of Their Own: Scherfig Concocts Winning WWII Romantic Comedy
Danish director Lone Scherfig, best known for her Dogme 95 breakout Italian for Beginners...
Aftermath | Review
No Highway in the Sky: Lester’s Inane Exploitation of Compounded Grief
Director Elliott Lester takes a hard left into slipshod terrain with his latest feature,...
Truman | Review
The Dog Stops Here: Gay’s Subtle Drama Grapples with Saying Goodbye
Although it offers nothing thematically new on the clichéd scenario of the disease film,...
Colossal | Review
Seoul of the Matter: Vigalondo’s Environmental Impact Creature Feature Unique but Wonky
Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo scores major points for ambition and uniqueness in his...
The Assignment | Review
A Dish Best Served Bold: Hill’s Revenge-Thriller a Sleazy Mix of Action and Body Horror
Grindhouse groupies will have something to celebrate with the latest...
