Valery Carnoy’s boxing drama Wild Foxes boasts a standout performance from Samuel Kircher as a teenage boy navigating the mindfields of masculinity.
Wild Foxes Bobs and Weaves Through the Minefields of Toxic Masculinity
Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
Of Mice and Meteors
A friendship without familiarity characterises the deeply annoying Meteors, inexplicably playing in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.
Once Upon A Time in Gaza Lacks A Coherent Viewpoint
Un Certain Regard entry Once Upon a Time in Gaza is a topical film, yet unfortunately, it doesn’t feel like its helping anything.
Peak Everything. Love and Climate Change.
A depressed kennel owner falls in love with a phone technician in Quebecois comedy Peak Everything, the rare fest film with crossover appeal.
I Only Rest in the Storm. A Complicated Neo-Colonial Picture.
I Only Rest in the Storm is an epic exploration of the relationship between Africa and the West that fiendishly complicates stereotypical portrayals.
Love Letters. Look Who’s Writing Too.
The pitfalls of lesbian parenting as well as the messy realities of modern-day relationships are expertly navigated in Critics’ Week film Love Letters.
A Useful Ghost’s House of Haunted Hoovers
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s debut feature A Useful Ghost is a remarkably profound — and silly — reverie on love, loss and assimilation.
Le Brutaliste
The construction of the Grande Arche de la Défense is recreated in loving detail in Stéphane Demoustier’s crowdpleasing, yet underwhelming The Great Arch.
Kika’s Dominatrix Service
BDSM and domination is used as a metaphor for the human condition in Alexe Poukine’s Kika, a deeply heartfelt tale about overcoming grief.
Her Will Be Done is Feverish, Ugly and Hard to Shake
With echoes of Wake in Fright and Carrie, Julia Kowalski’s Her Will Be Done is a provocative, satisfying body horror that lingers long in the memory.