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Screening at TIFF: Akinola Davies Jr.’s ‘My Father’s Shadow’

Screening at TIFF: Akinola Davies Jr.’s ‘My Father’s Shadow’

Cinematographer Jermaine Edwards’ thoughtful use of high-contrast celluloid yields a warm and detailed texture, like a living photograph.

26.09.2025 3

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at TIFF: Gabriel Mascaro’s ‘The Blue Trail’

Screening at TIFF: Gabriel Mascaro’s ‘The Blue Trail’

Mascaro's direction and Guillermo Garza's cinematography provide a consistent, simmering momentum.

24.09.2025 2

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at TIFF: Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Franz’

Screening at TIFF: Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Franz’

Holland all but stops short of invoking mass-produced Che Guevara t-shirts to make her point about the vulturous ways Kafka’s work and life have...

23.09.2025 1

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at TIFF: Nia DaCosta’s ‘Hedda’

Screening at TIFF: Nia DaCosta’s ‘Hedda’

As visually pristine as it is dramatically dull, it’s one of the fall festival season’s most perplexing “prestige” films.

17.09.2025 2

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at Venice: Gus Van Sant’s ‘Dead Man’s Wire’

Whatever Van Sant’s feelings about this kind of subject matter may have once been, he appears to now translate them through a lens of sheer...

13.09.2025 3

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at Venice: Mike Figgis’ ‘Megadoc’

This at-times intriguing portrait of Francis Ford Coppola’s creative process is never allowed to probe deeply enough.

13.09.2025 10

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at Venice: Anuparna Roy’s ‘Songs of Forgotten Trees’

Roy’s approach is melodic and understated, and mines drama from human corners where other storytellers might not think to look.

11.09.2025 2

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at Venice: Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Bugonia’

The filmmaker has reimagined a cult classic for an era defined by online conspiracies and unchecked digital influence.

09.09.2025 3

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at Venice: Luca Guadagnino’s ‘After the Hunt’

The film means well, but its conflicts are so haphazardly conceived that it ends up making a mockery of the very themes it purports to approach.

08.09.2025 4

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at Tribeca: Robert Petit’s ‘Underland’

The Darren Aronofsky-produced documentary explores the emotional and symbolic weight of descending into the Earth.

23.06.2025 5

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at Tribeca: James Sweeney’s ‘Twinless’

Dylan O’Brien stars (twice) in this grief-tinged drama with twisted turns.

17.06.2025 3

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at Tribeca: Jim Sheridan and David Merriman’s ‘Re-Creation’

It’s a moving and at times risky film that uses a grisly real-life murder to turn the lens on our fascination with true crime.

16.06.2025 3

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

The Power of ‘Yes!’ and the Limits of Dissent at Cannes

Each of these films is incredibly accomplished, but the sensations they individually re-create can all be found bunched together in Lapid’s furious...

03.06.2025 5

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at Cannes: Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Die, My Love’

Bought by MUBI for a whopping $20 million, Lynne Ramsay’s untamed relationship drama—starring Jenifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson—opens like a...

27.05.2025 3

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at Cannes: Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’

As visually innovative as it is thematically stunning—and buzzed about for the Cannes Palme d'Or—'Sound of Falling’ connects a century of...

16.05.2025 10

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha