Discovering good movies, one bad movie at a time

Ah, the agony of heightened expectations. By no means a “bad” film, L’enfant, the winner of the 2005 Palme d’Or is nonetheless a film I expected to enjoy a great deal more than I did. Indeed, it was this ambivalence that led me to withhold this review for so long (at five days, this was […]

Over the weekend, I managed to catch Michael Haneke’s Caché, nominally a thriller, and quite the darling at Cannes. When I first saw it, I failed entirely to understand why it’s been receiving so much adulation, although as I’ve considered the film I find that it yields increasing rewards. It is frustrating in many respects […]