David Rooney

Guy Pearce just gets better and better. In the psychologically complex Australian prison drama INSIDE, he forms a nervy triangle with a transformative Cosmo Jarvis and impressive newcomer Vincent Miller. My @THR review from #Tribeca2025 https://t.co/uiJgAt2DyA

Stuffed with great archival material & sharp present-day interviews, BOY GEORGE & CULTURE CLUB sticks to the standard authorized music doc template. But the ‘80s was my London decade, so I was glued. My @THR review from #Tribeca2025 https://t.co/zdmgkWvjfa

The frothy trailer made me fearful about Celine Song’s MATERIALISTS, but the PAST LIVES director’s assured second feature is soulful, contemplative & swoony, with stellar work from Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans & Pedro Pascal. Gorgeous. My @THR review https://t.co/8XpLEJJpXj

Shark season is upon us with the 50th anniversary of JAWS’ release this month. Makes the time right for Australian shark-meets-psycho B-movie DANGEROUS ANIMALS, starring an enjoyably feral Jai Courtney. In theaters tomorrow. My @THR review. https://t.co/bUeY6VTOBk

Ana de Armas kills it (along with too many vicious antagonists to count) in the surprisingly entertaining JOHN WICK spinoff BALLERINA, with a welcome assist from Keanu Reeves, not to mention Anjelica Huston in pricelessly acidic form. My @THR review. https://t.co/nw6mPD4WlW

Plowed through season 3 of THE GILDED AGE, the guilty (or gilty?) pleasure about old-guard snobs and social-climbing parvenus in 1880s New York, which hits even juicier soap-operatic heights. Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector really should be doing Macbeth on Broadway https://t.co/5JC0lsCqbP

Hlynur Pálmason follows his jagged epic, GODLAND, with a more intimate focus in the marital drama, THE LOVE THAT REMAINS, again drawing on Icelandic landscapes and the elements for power. My @THR review from #Cannes2025 https://t.co/zNuVsIQvrx

Saw some absolute stunners at #Cannes2025 (and very few stinkers, though I'm looking at you, EDDINGTON). Here's a roundup of some of the @THR critics' team's favorites. https://t.co/BqSxE0Ubhy

After SUMMER 1993 and ALCARRÀS, Catalan director Carla Simón continues in her customarily personal vein, this time rattling family skeletons by exhuming the parents she never knew on the Atlantic coast in ROMERÍA. My @THR review from #Cannes2025 https://t.co/JU8U995SAm

The Dardenne brothers' deeply affecting ensemble drama YOUNG MOTHERS was woven out of their observations of teen women and their babies in a maternal support shelter. Just lovely; one of their best. My @THR review from #Cannes2025 https://t.co/xdrYlggFxb

Every new Kelly Reichardt movie is its own kind of revelation. THE MASTERMIND is a '70s movie that actually feels like a lost '70s movie, led by a peerless Josh O'Connor as an unemployed carpenter turned art thief. My @THR review from #Cannes2025 https://t.co/esn95twf87

Jodie Foster and Daniel Auteuil are an absolute delight together in A PRIVATE LIFE (VIE PRIVÉE), Rebecca Zlotowski's messy but enjoyable comedy mystery about an American shrink in Paris. My @THR review from #Cannes2025 https://t.co/8BWAF2AfHQ

After the completely wonderful WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD, Joachim Trier & Renate Reinsve get back together for SENTIMENTAL VALUE, a drama about family & memory, veined with both melancholy and inspired humor. Loved it. My @THR review from #Cannes2025 https://t.co/VNnv3BHFTd

Extremely moved by Oliver Hermanus' unabashedly romantic queer love story THE HISTORY OF SOUND, with beautiful work from Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor and musical sequences to give you emotional liftoff. My @THR review from #Cannes2025 https://t.co/1KsQeMb7uB

Had a blast at HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, Spike Lee’s energized reinterpretation of the classic Kurosawa crime thriller HIGH AND LOW, with Denzel Washington in the Toshiro Mifune role. Wildly entertaining. My @THR review from #Cannes2025 https://t.co/3Ja3J9xx6f

Any doubters who wondered if Kristen Stewart had what it takes to become a director should be silenced by THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER. Led by an astonishing Imogen Poots, it's a tough watch, but an electric one. My @THR review from #Cannes2025 https://t.co/9FKyAsi9ef

#Cannes2025 competition fave for me so far is Kleber Mendonça Filho’s ‘70s political thriller THE SECRET AGENT, led by a never-better Wagner Moura. Between this & the gorgeous BLUE TRAIL in Berlin, could Brazil win Oscars 2 years running? My @thr review https://t.co/52Usz2keiR