Reviews

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy review – rotten to the core
Diamanti review – a joyful meta-melodrama celebrating female actors
Miroirs No. 3 review – no one is doing it like Petzold
The Blue Trail review – a winding and creative dystopian drama
The Wizard of the Kremlin review – ludicrous and self-aware, with Jude Law as young Putin
Rebuilding review – pleasant to a fault

Features

How Beef shines a light on the pitfalls of reproductive healthcare
Cannes 2026 announces its sidebar line-ups
Jarmusch Special | Father Mother Sister Brother
The 2026 Cannes Film Festival line-up is here!
The liminality of All The President's Men
Jim Jarmusch: Song & Dance Man

Talent Luisa Ranieri

Diamanti review – a joyful meta-melodrama celebrating female actors

by Luisa Blacker

Filmmaker Ferzan Özpetek underscores his own contributions to this lively 1970s-set melodrama charting a group of seamstresses as they produce costumes for a new movie.

Anticipation

Enjoyment

In Retrospect

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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy review – rotten to the core

Diamanti review – a joyful meta-melodrama celebrating female actors

Miroirs No. 3 review – no one is doing it like Petzold

The Blue Trail review – a winding and creative dystopian drama

The Wizard of the Kremlin review – ludicrous and self-aware, with Jude Law as young Putin

Rebuilding review – pleasant to a fault

How Beef shines a light on the pitfalls of reproductive healthcare

Cannes 2026 announces its sidebar line-ups

Jarmusch Special | Father Mother Sister Brother

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival line-up is here!

The liminality of All The President's Men

Jim Jarmusch: Song & Dance Man

Diamanti review – a joyful meta-melodrama celebrating female actors