Author: Justin Chor Yu Liu

• Review: Pacifiction

  

  Slow cinema prevails.

  Written by

  Justin Chor Yu Liu

  May 28, 2022 5:40 pm

  Albert Serra, Day 10, Grand Theatre Lumiere

• Review: Broker

  

  Kore-eda returns with some of his most mature but also messiest work to date.

  Written by

  Justin Chor Yu Liu

  May 27, 2022 11:57 pm

  Day 11, Grand Theatre Lumiere

• Review: Will-o’-the-Wisp

  

  A celebration of queer joy in an irreverent, no holds barred romance comedy.

  Written by

  Justin Chor Yu Liu

  May 25, 2022 12:50 pm

  Day 8, Theatre Croisette

• Review: Crimes of the Future

  

  Camp, prestige, horror, and queer eroticism collide in Cronenberg’s grand comeback.

  Written by

  Justin Chor Yu Liu

  May 25, 2022 1:27 am

  Day 7, Grand Theatre Lumiere

• Review: Holy Spider

  

  Meaningful debate arrives too late to make up for icky flashes of violence and flavorless proceedings.

  Written by

  Justin Chor Yu Liu

  May 24, 2022 7:43 am

  Day 7, Grand Theatre Lumiere

• Review: Les Amandiers

  

  Charisma cannot make up for the lack of self-interrogation in this arts school hangout movie.

  Written by

  Justin Chor Yu Liu

  May 23, 2022 8:27 am

  Day 6, Grand Theatre Lumiere

• Review: Enys Men

  

  We regrettably side with the inevitable viewers who will find this psychological horror more empty than enigmatic.

  Written by

  Justin Chor Yu Liu

  May 21, 2022 6:22 pm

  Day 5, Horror, Mark Jenkin, Theatre Croisette

• Review: Revoir Paris

  

  Alice Winocour explores terrorism and PTSD with care and specificity.

  Written by

  Justin Chor Yu Liu

  May 21, 2022 5:22 pm

  Alice Winocour, Day 5, Theatre Croisette, Virginie Efira

• Review: Itim

  

  The sins of the Philippines come back to haunt both film and country.

  Written by

  Justin Chor Yu Liu

  May 20, 2022 4:42 pm

  Buñuel Theatre, Day 3

• Review: Tchaikovsky’s Wife

  

  Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov does not deliver on the hype for his presence at Cannes.

  Written by

  Justin Chor Yu Liu

  May 20, 2022 1:34 pm

  Day 3, Salle Agnes Varda