The Lord of the Rings' maestro Peter Jackson brought laughter & tears to Cannes Film Festival 2026, as he was given an ...

First we let the algorithm supplant personal experience as the guide to what we like. Then we neglected our own pleasure, ...

Gijón and Bárbara Lennie star in this semi-autobiographical meta-fiction about a film director whose screenplay violates a ...

The melodrama, which premiered in competition at the French festival, marks the 76-year-old director’s return to his native ...

Bitter Christmas' is mid-tier Pedro Almodóvar: immaculately art-directed and color-blocked, as per, and plenty enjoyable.

Pedro Almodóvar's latest movie at the Cannes Film Festival, Bitter Christmas, sored a 9-minute ovation after its premiere ...

Lusty nuns, insecure writers and a brave pooch lead this month’s under-the-radar recommendations on your subscription ...

A tortured filmmaker writes — and re-writes — a screenplay about a tortured filmmaker in this satisfying late-career gem from ...

Part of a string of late-career Pedro Almodóvar films that aren't as dazzling as his early work but feel deep and profound, "Bitter Christmas" is a Russian nesting doll of a movie. It's a layered ...

A review of Bitter Christmas, which finds Pedro Almodóvar digs into his own profession again in a movie that explores ...