Reviews

Papal potboiler Conclave lets Ralph Fiennes Cook

The Holy Throne of Saint Peter is vacant. Edward Berger churns a satisfying political potboiler in the Vatican as the titular conclave of Cardinals sequester themselves to select its next occupant. No one wants to admit they want the job, everyone has an agenda, and secrets hide in the dark corners of each man’s heart. 

Reviews

The Taste of Things sorts your Valentine’s Day Plans

Benoît Magimel is the Napoleon of French cuisine. Juliette Binoche is his cook, apprentice, and lover. Over twenty-plus years together, they’ve built an astonishing culinary and emotional partnership together at a stunning country estate. It’s the late 1800s in France, the Age of Escoffier is dawning, and the preparation, appreciation, and invention of food is serious business.

Festivals Reviews

Everyone’s invited to Saltburn for the holidays

The best thing Emerald Fennell does with her sharp satiric follow-up to A Promising Young Woman is giving the always-sublime weirdo Barry Keoghan a whole goddamned movie to finally let his freak flag fly. She brings a distinctly female gaze to a twisty class comedy about an Oxford scholarship nerd falling in (and in love with) with the college’s landed party people elite through the transformative power of doing a fortuitous favor for a fellow student.