Reviews

Dir: Kohei Kadowaki | Japan, Anime, 112, 2026 We Are Aliens is rather a subversive Japanese anime that disguises its existential weight beneath a deceptively placid surface until extreme violence eventually...

Dir: Kantemir Balagov | Drama 2026 Katemir Balagov made his Cannes feature debut with Closeness (2017) and went on to win Best Director (UCR) with his 2019 follow-up Beanpole Once again focusing...

Dir: Koji Fukada | Japan Drama 2026 Premiering in Competition at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, Nagi Notes confirms Kōji Fukada as one of contemporary Japanese cinema’s most quietly rigorous observers...

Dir/Wri: Charlene Bourgeois-Tacquet | France, Drama 98' French writer/director, Charlene Bourgeois-Tacquet, arrives in the main competition at Cannes this year with an intimate character-driven drama, an accomplished follow-up to Anais in...

Dir: Pierre Salvadori | Drama 2026 Electric Venus aka The Electric Kiss is probably one of the most enjoyable films to open the world’s best known film festival. La Vénus électrique...

Hussein Fahmy Takes Centre Stage as Arab Cinema’s Power Player The Croisette is heating up—and not just for premieres. Hussein Fahmy, the influential president of the Cairo International Film Festival, is...

Dir: Diego Cespides | Drama Chile 2025 The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo is an evocative but but rather uneven debut from the Chilean filmmaker, but one that relies heavily on...

Dir: Alan Byron | Music biopic Northern Soul: Still Burning, directed by Alan Byron, isn’t really a concert film in the traditional sense. It doesn’t just capture a single performance or...

Dir: John Dower | Doc 86' The Balloonists is a gripping account of one of the most daring adventures in modern aviation—the 1999 race to circumnavigate the globe by balloon....