With fanfare: a virtuoso social comedy-drama (review)
A feel good movie worthy of the best British films of the genre, carried by the complicity of the duo Benjamin Lavernhe-Pierre Lottin. The enthusiastic…
Heretic: a great number by Hugh Grant (review)
With this horrific thriller with a religious backdrop, the screenwriters of Without a Sound have had a blast molding the British actor into a fascinating…
Rabia: a shocking film (review)
A great film about recruitment in the footsteps of a young French woman who chose to join Daesch. Megan Northam is exceptional. It was the…
The Cairo Conspiracy: a thriller that only half convinces (review)
The big strings of his screenplay – although awarded at Cannes – prevent the new film from the director of Cairo Confidential from fully unfolding,…
The Most Precious of Goods, Diamond in the Rough, Piece by Piece: what’s new at the cinema this week
What to see in theaters THE EVENTTHE MOST PRECIOUS OF GOODS ★★★☆☆ By Michel Hazanavicius The essentials By adapting the work of Jean-Claude Grumberg, the…
Group therapy with men on the verge of a nervous breakdown (review)
Audrey Dana’s comedy, in competition at the Alpe d’Huez 2022 festival, brings together a great cast. It arrives this weekend unencrypted, on France 2. It…
Back to black: impressive Marisa Abela (review)
Although sanitized, this biopic on Amy Winehouse still manages to capture something of the wounded intimacy of a young girl in search of simple happiness….
Corsage: Sissi as you’ve never seen her before (review)
Marie Kreutzer revisits the figure of Sissi in a haughty gesture of never stifling modernity. And once again, Vicky Krieps is exceptional. Released at the…
The Boy and the Heron: Miyazaki’s winning return (review)
After ten years of absence, Miyazaki returns with a splendid film. The spiritual epic of a young bereaved boy, which fascinates the eye as much…
The Most Precious of Goods, Diamond in the Rough, Piece by Piece: what’s new at the cinema this week
What to see in theaters THE EVENTTHE MOST PRECIOUS OF GOODS ★★★☆☆ By Michel Hazanavicius The essentials By adapting the work of Jean-Claude Grumberg, the…
Piece by piece: Failure on all levels (review)
The story of Pharrell Williams’ life, brought to life in Lego: the result is an unpleasant hagiography that piles on banalities. What do you want…
Diamond in the rough: the revelation of a filmmaker (review)
In her first film, Agathe Riedinger questions the caricatured representations of the southern “hood”, painting a delicate portrait of a misunderstood person. A most opportune…