Alison Willmore

4 weeks ago | vulture.com | Alison Willmore

The Philippou brothers have a real talent for showing teenagers doing dumb things. Bad decisions keep the gears of the horror genre turning — where would scary movies be without characters who discover the light switch at the top of the basement stairs isn’t working, then go down into the ominous darkness anyway? But when characters make lousy calls in Danny and Michael Philippou’s 2022 directing debut, Talk to Me, and their new film, Bring Her Back, it’s not because the plot requires them to.

1 month ago | vulture.com | Rachel Handler |Alison Willmore

Spend 12 days watching movies, and you can’t help but notice patterns. Some of the recurring elements at this year’s Cannes Film Festival were coincidences, like the many scenes in which women angrily masturbated, or children bulled one of their own, or a house became a portal into generations of family history. But other similarities felt like signs of the times — look at the characters who metaphorically and literally turned the music up in an effort to drown out what’s happening around them.

1 month ago | gossipbucket.com | Rachel Handler |Alison Willmore

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1 month ago | vulture.com | Alison Willmore

If any film fits the impossibly idealist version of Cannes its participants reach for every year, it’s Jafar Panahi’s A Simple Accident. Nothing can stop the Cannes Film Festival, not even a suspected act of sabotage. The morning of the fest’s last day, a major outage took out power across southeastern France, including the town of Cannes.

1 month ago | vulture.com | Alison Willmore

Lynne Ramsay’s postpartum phantasmagoria doesn’t go somewhere so much as it runs right off a cliff, and it’s Lawrence who holds its pieces together. Die, My Love made me think about that stretch of time in the 2010s in which Jennifer Lawrence made the leap from playing a teenager to playing a wife in the space of a year. In 2012, she starred as 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen in the first The Hunger Games, then as Bradley Cooper’s widowed love interest in David O.