Thursday, May 21, 2026
“This land has too many love stories buried in its fields,” says the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca in a brief dramatized appearance at the tail end of “The Black Ball” — a fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 17, 2026
The resemblance between Judith Godrèche and her daughter Tess Barthélemy — also the luminous lead of her mother’s debut feature “A Girl’s Life” — will be particularly powerful …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:52PM[SHARE]Typically, the Cannes Classics section is not one of the festival’s major noise-makers. Mostly comprising restorations of classic titles and new documentaries about film history, it is, fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2026
Most comedies rely on a certain amount of established tropes: the obsessive best friend, the stereotyped psychotherapist, the randy 20-year-old. Besides offering comfort, this kind of famili…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:23AM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2026
The kill list in “Is God Is” is a short one: a single name, and not even a name at that. The sole target of Aleshea Harris’ incendiary revenge movie is credited only as “the Monster,…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2026
Earlier this week, in one of her umpteen promotional interviews for “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” Meryl Streep deviated from the tried-and-true PR playbook to actually say something interes…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2026
British actor David Jonsson is only five films into his career, but you'd already know his gaze anywhere: Even in a film as spry and bright as the 2023 romcom "Rye Lane," those crinkly, soft…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2026
"The Garden We Dreamed" opens on a complex symphony of natural sound: layer upon layer of birdsong, insect chatter and weather-rustled foliage, all the more intensified for playing out over …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:04PM[SHARE]Friday, February 20, 2026
Lillian Hellman's landmark 1934 play "The Children's Hour" has twice been adapted for the big screen, both times by director William Wyler, and neither film really did right by it. The Hays …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:10PM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2026
The immigrant experience is most often discussed, and most easily understood, as one of an entire person's movement and relocation: a journey from A to B and perhaps further letters, with co…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20PM[SHARE]Whether saturating entire frames or dribbling down a rare contrasting design element, there's red everywhere you look in "The Blood Countess," as you might well expect. Little of it, however…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:45PM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2026
The jazz piano of Bill Evans was characterized by grace and poise, a lightness of touch yielding a plaintive depth of feeling, that belied a life beset with chaos and tragedy. It would be ea…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:16PM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2026
There are, presumably, some well-meaning civilians who have entered politics and found the experience nothing but societally beneficial and personally character-improving " but few to none o…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 7, 2026
On a faintly misty morning in South Africa's Kamiesberg mountain region, 79-year-old goatherd Hettie (Hettie Farmer) watches her flock as they hobble and nibble along the rough, khaki-colore…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2026
A potentially tranquil desert island now overrun with vacationing Europeans chugging day-glo cocktails, Gran Canaria is an intrinsically funny setting for a story of familial grief, disconne…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 1, 2026
On the face of it, for a comfortable middle-class couple in Lithuania, getting divorced has absolutely nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. Why would it? But when their separation happens …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 25, 2026
Life behind bars means death behind bars, and all the pain and frailty that often precedes it " a fate that awaits a good number of America's incarcerated millions, though one we rarely see …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]For those of us who saw it when we were still in school ourselves, Alexander Payne's "Election" was a startling work, and even a perspective-shifting one " a snarlingly funny introduction to…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]Friday, January 23, 2026
If there was a reason for veteran actor Edward James Olmos to resurrect his magnetic role in "Zoot Suit," it's to honor the man behind that landmark work centering the Mexican American exper…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 1, 2025
In Chinese culture, "double happiness" refers to an ornamental design commonly found festooned across wedding ceremonies, formed by placing two copies of the Chinese character for joy next t…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PM[SHARE]Anyone who has seen her seething Oscar-nominated performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread" knows that Lesley Manville can be hard as nails on screen " though it's a register the…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:39AM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2025
In contemporary Brussels, married social worker Kika (Manon Clavel) dedicates herself to helping others until an affair, followed by personal tragedy, shatters her life as she has known it. …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:23AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 19, 2025
"God Save the King" has never been the loveliest or most melodic of national anthems, and its somewhat chiding, aggressive tenor is brought to the fore early in "The Choral." Upon delivery o…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 21, 2025
Of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the screen's most celebrated dance partners, Katharine Hepburn is famously said to have declared that he gave her class, while she gave him sex appeal. Jul…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2025
As biopic subjects go, Franz Kafka is resistant to standard-issue treatment on a number of levels " beginning with the fact that his life, short and largely uncelebrated in its time, wasn't …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Marc Jacobs wears terrific pajamas, as you might expect: comfortably loose but crisply shaped, in a sort of metallic jacquard more typically seen on expensive upholstery, with creases that s…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:28PM[SHARE]Monday, September 1, 2025
Those of us who first understood Shakerism not as a religious movement but as a mail-order furniture company " like a particularly elegant, artisanal version of Ikea " have much to learn fro…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 30, 2025
Let's not bury the lede: "After the Hunt" gives Julia Roberts her best film role in at least 20 years. That's both a big statement " two decades is a long time by any standard, an eternity i…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:02PM[SHARE]In his autobiography, Keith Richards described "As Tears Go By," a disarmingly simple ballad that he and Mick Jagger composed under duress, as "a terrible piece of tripe." You can see why, g…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2025
The instantly immortal Rihanna lyric "We found love in a hopeless place" comes to mind more than once in "On the Sea," and perhaps unfairly so. The severe, slate-skied stretch of northern We…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 17, 2025
Anyone approaching "Blue Film" hoping to be titillated, per the pornographic implication of the title, is likely to be disappointed. "Blue" denotes sex, certainly, and that's forever on the …
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