The Guardian — 2025-09-17

One of the great creative bromances has flowered again: Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon. Having adapted Pynchon's Inherent Vice for the screen in 2014, Anderson has now taken a freer rein with his 1990 novel Vineland, creating a bizarre action thriller driven by pulpy comic-book energy and transformed political indignation, keeping his pedal at all times welded to the metal.

Les Inrockuptibles — 2020-03-03

Magnolia est moins un film choral qu'une polyphonie de solitudes, où l'on suit, le temps d'une nuit tempétueuse, neuf femmes et hommes criblés d'angoisses, croulant sous le poids de leurs propres vices, de secrets familiaux enfouis, et de non-dits profondément enracinés.

The Guardian — 2025-10-02

When I Swear premiered at the Toronto International film festival in September, Variety deemed Aramayo 'flawless', IndieWire praised his 'striking, star-making performance' and Screen International marked the actor out as 'a major big-screen talent'.

Variety — 2025-09-11

Annemarie Jacir's epic film has many other strengths. It's grand in scale, ambitious in storytelling and balanced in the way it pays equal attention to historical scope and detailed characterization. Palestine 36 resonates because it binds the personal to the political, showing how resistance emerges in both quiet and explosive forms.

The Guardian — 2026-01-09

The film's emotional force is carried by the Irish actor and singer Jessie Buckley, who portrays Hathaway (opposite Paul Mescal's Shakespeare) with a rawness and intimacy that has already earned her a Critics' Circle award for best actress. Buckley's ability to inhabit an extremity of emotions has been honed over years – on stage and screen.

The Guardian — 2025-01-25

Pavel Talankin is, by his own admission early in the extraordinary documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, not the person you or he would pick to be the hero of the story or to take on an oppressive regime. But Talankin has always cut a bit of a non-conformist streak – he is the one teacher with a Russian democracy flag in his classroom.

Variety — 2025-12-15

When Guillermo del Toro called on production designer Tamara Deverell to work on 'Frankenstein,' one thing was clear: there would be no green screen. Everything would be handmade from scratch. 'We had 20 sculptors at any given moment working,' Deverell says.

Variety — 2025-06-28

Production worked with Mercedes AMG, the Formula 1 team and their engineers to build real race cars that could carry the film's camera equipment. Pitt and Damson were driving real cars on real Formula 1 tracks. Working with mechanics, John reveals the microphone packs were held with cable ties near the exhaust to catch some full-fat sound and immerse the audience.