ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2024
The last six months of 2024 contain two more days than the first six do (courtesy of February, even in a leap year as this one...), so we could stretch it a day, but now there's no avoiding it any...
Cannes 2024 Review: UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, A Triumph for Canadian Cinema
Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin directs and stars in his new Winnipeg-set, Farsi-language comedy feature.
Cannes 2024 Review: SANTOSH, Damning Portrait of Indian Police Brutality
Shahana Goswami and Sunita Rajwar star in Sandhya Suri's Hindi-language, British-Indian film about female cops.
Cannes 2024 Review: THE OTHER WAY AROUND, Breakup Comedy Is Repetitive On Purpose
Itsaso Arana and Vito Sanz star in Jonás Trueba's Spanish language breakup comedy.
Cannes 2024 Review: MOST PEOPLE DIE ON SUNDAYS, Affecting Funeral Drama Marred By Slow Pace
Personal, vaguely auto-fictional stories are de rigueur for first-time filmmakers, especially actors turning directors.Iair Said, seen in last year’s The Delinquents, makes an undistinguished debut after trying his hand at a couple of shorts. Increasingly, subjects of coming-of-age tales...
Cannes 2024 Review: HOLY COW, French Cheese-Making Dramedy Is a Finely Crafted Debut Feature
Louise Courvoisier directed. A brash young man is humbled by provincial life.
Cannes 2024 Review: IT DOESN'T MATTER, A Black Man Comes of Age in Modern America
Jay Will and Christopher Abbott star as best friends in Josh Mond's second feature film after his 2015 debut, 'James White.'
CLUB ZERO Review: Eating Healthy Gets Dangerous
Mia Wasikowska stars in Jessica Hausner's buzz-worthy new film.
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films of 2023
Hello all of you readers, and the best wishes for 2024 from all of us here at ScreenAnarchy! One of those best wishes is that we hope you will all see many good films. May our enjoyment of cinema be...
THE ZONE OF INTEREST Review: The Monsters Among Us, Within These Walls
Directed by Jonathan Glazer, the film stars Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, and Ralph Herforth.
MONSTER Review: Genre Trappings, Tricky Structural Dynamics, Impactful Message
Kore-Eda Hirokazu's newest film.
Screen Anarchists On INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
It seemed like a joke when the news broke that Harrison Ford, at the time almost 80 years old, would take up the hat and whip for another turn as the intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones. But lo-and-behold, there it...
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY Review: Popcorn for Adults
Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen star; James Mangold directed.
NOBODY'S HERO Review: Unexpectedly Topical French Farce
French director Alain Guiraudie's unpredictable comedy combines a bedroom farce with a terrorist attack.
ADIPURUSH Review: Catastrophic VFX Mar Bahubali-Style Indian Epic
The most expensive Indian film ever made is a fantasy action blockbuster based on the epic poem Ramayana.
Cannes 2023 Review: THE DELINQUENTS, Sensationally Entertaining Bank-Heist Dramedy
Daniel Elías and Esteban Bigliardi star as bank colleagues who rob their employer in Rodrigo Moreno's Argentinian comedy drama.
Cannes 2023 Review: THE OLD OAK, Exploitative Racism Melodrama Is An Embarrassment
British director Ken Loach unveiled the final film of his decades-long career at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
Cannes 2023 Review: KIDNAPPED, Vatican Scandal Grippingly Dramatized
Director Marco Bellocchio tells a historical drama about a boy forcibly taken from his Jewish family and raised as a Catholic.
Cannes 2023 Review: ANATOMY OF A FALL, Underwhelming Palme d'Or Winner
Sandra Hüller stars in a courtroom drama, directed by French filmmaker Justine Triet.
Cannes 2023 Review: IN OUR DAY, Luminous Korean Miniature
Prolific Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo premieres his 30th film in the Director's Fortnight section at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
