IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 11hWe got the exclusive first-look at the trailer for 🇺🇾 Federico Borgia's 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗘 🐕which will world premiere next week at the BFI London Film Festival bit.ly/4rHRwz7 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell on 𝗡𝗔𝗭𝗔 ★★★★ in Venice "The formidable hypocrisy of Israeli news stations covering Holocaust Remembrance day, including an honorarium for Claude Lanzmann, in the midst of their barbarity, is a wretched but necessary visualization of the flabberga www.ioncinema.com/?p=143386 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here is our IndieSponge capsule review for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's 𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗥 www.ioncinema.com/?p=143718 001
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I had the chance to speak with Arthur Harari for 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗡𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪𝗡 - the Cannes competition title that preemed at Telluride, TIFF and NYFF (tonite!). This one belongs to NEON! www.ioncinema.com/?p=143689 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Olivier Assayas re-teams with Kristen Stewart and casts Vicky Krieps, Niels Schneider, Riley Keough, Wagner Moura & Barbara Sukowa in 𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 / production begins in February. Cannes 2028? www.ioncinema.com/?p=143695 010
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Our Kevin Jagernauth reviews ALPHA GANG “In its best moments, the Zellners genre mashup recalls the work of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani” www.ioncinema.com/?p=143636 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Our Kevin Jagernauth reviews TIFF preemed 𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗭𝗜𝗡𝗘 “...a butter knife deep literary scene satire and coming-of-age story that never truly draws blood.” www.ioncinema.com/?p=143637 010
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 21/09/2026One of the few world premiere highlights from this year's TIFF... here is our review of Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother - being released this week by the Amazon MGM Studios folks www.ioncinema.com/?p=143616 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 is an ambitiously rich, arthouse flavored action film that marks a step up for filmmaker Bassam Tariq and is easily Mahershala Ali’s best role and performance since Moonlight.” www.ioncinema.com/?p=143616 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell final competition film review...Back to Buenos Aires “Ultimately, it’s a rather sedate approximation of survivor’s guilt despite brief details revealing some of the horror that was endured.” www.ioncinema.com/?p=143261 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell reviews 𝗔 𝗕𝗜𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 “As the title indicates, and has been Asgari’s custom, there’s an undeniable sense of hard-won optimism keeping his narrative afloat despite realities which breed apathy or despair.” ★★★ www.ioncinema.com/?p=143292 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell reviews Nicolas Pariser's 𝗨𝗡 𝗣𝗘𝗨 𝗔𝗩𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗨𝗜𝗧 🇫🇷 “its blatant messaging is effective, even if Poupaud’s amiability makes him seem like a sacrificial lamb whose future seems both unclear and rather uninteresting.” @la_Biennale #Venezia83 www.ioncinema.com/?p=143262 010
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 10/09/2026𝗡𝗔𝗭𝗔 ★★★★ “clear-eyed, sobering approach is indeed an undeniable document of complicity and admission to the systematic murdering of an entire people, and it’s unclear how anyone could continue to hide behind political jargon ....” www.ioncinema.com/?p=143386 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 09/09/2026𝗨𝗡 𝗕𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗧 𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗔𝗧 🇫🇷🔇 Our @RagingBells reviews the new Brizé “the lighter side of Brizé is just as pregnant with intention, a reminder to not just mind the gaps, but take a look at the shifting angles and perspectives that widen them around us" www.ioncinema.com/?p=143287 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇷🇺 Ilya Khrzhanovsky's masterwork 𝗗𝗔𝗨 ★★★★½ “this latest mutation of Dau, arguably the most definitive version, is a formidable, cohesive crystallization of a pure cinematic audacity.” @la_Biennale #Venezia83 www.ioncinema.com/?p=143289 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Let the White One In: Affleck Can’t Satisfy the Hunger Like many actors who doggedly pursue a parallel career as film directors, Casey Affleck manages to present interesting ideas without really sensing the best way to execute them. www.ioncinema.com/?p=143290 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell reviews Florian Zeller’s 𝗕𝗨𝗡𝗞𝗘𝗥 “Strangely, it’s a film which bungles any elegant rumination on its subtexts by both talking too much but saying too little.” @la_Biennale #Venezia83 www.ioncinema.com/?p=143291 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 08/09/20262026 TIFF Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet for Ghasideh Golmakani's Head to Head 🇮🇷 www.ioncinema.com/?p=143590 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 07/09/2026𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗟 🇮🇹 / aka L'Estranea “Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, smoking cigarettes in her beige trench coat, may be one of the most deliciously entertaining personifications of Satan you’ve experienced” ★★★★ www.ioncinema.com/?p=143260 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nicholas reviews 𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 🇯🇵 ルックバック “Kore-eda is a master of the unstated, this time around focused acutely on the sound design of creation, which almost seems to subconsciously cue a Pavlovian response with a myriad of pencils scratching paper and whops of mois www.ioncinema.com/?p=143283 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 06/09/2026🇧🇷 “...real essence of body horror is the psychological thriller template we’re all navigating in our minds, and such is the sentiment of London, the directorial debut of filmmaking partners Victor Di Marco and Márcio Picoli..." www.ioncinema.com/?p=143512 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 06/09/2026𝗪𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗨𝗡𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪𝗡 🇩🇰✂️ “el-Touky wades into equally troubling territory (although arguably less contentious) with her first period piece, examining how women’s bodies are not only currency but veritable vehicles of survival, the plundering of which becomes a double ed www.ioncinema.com/?p=143258 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell reviews 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗖𝗛𝗢 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 🇮🇹 “A chamber piece on the blurred lines between dichotomies, where something initially positive can quickly evolve into something toxic or negative, it’s a sometimes morose ..." www.ioncinema.com/?p=143288 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell reviews Oase aka 𝗢𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗦 🇩🇪 “Lenz’s fluctuating explorations of how masculinity must constantly be navigated from an offensive or defensive standpoint in a world which simply doesn’t allow for vulnerability.” ★★★ @la_Biennale #Venezia83 www.ioncinema.com/?p=143436 010
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇰🇷 Lee Chang-dong's 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 “is also about the dangerous erosion that occurs when couples escape into themselves to heal their own wounds rather than providing the necessary succor which might not only assist in healing, but bring t www.ioncinema.com/?p=143255 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell reviews Moretti’s IT WILL HAPPEN TONITE “It’s a heavily romanticized worldview which certainly has been effectively conveyed on screen by many, but when it involves banal people making idiotic choices it’s difficult to feel invested in their non www.ioncinema.com/?p=143285 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇺🇸 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 “Oppenheim positions Hansen as a Captain Ahab figure looking for his metaphorical ‘whale.’ But empires built on exploitation and devoid of empathy are always destined to crumble.” @A24 @la_Biennale #Venezia #Primetime www.ioncinema.com/?p=143263 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell reviews Shinya Tsukamoto's Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? ネルソンさん、あなたは人を殺しましたか？“Tsukamoto at least depicts a way out of being defined by trauma through a strident sense of honor and a necessary element of recuperation” ★★★ www.ioncinema.com/?p=143256 010
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 04/09/2026We review 🇮🇹 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 "Gabbriellini approaches La città dei vivi turning a sordid true-crime story that shocked a nation into something far more intimate: a portrait of the life, relationships and fragile possibilities that existed before Luca bec www.ioncinema.com/?p=143410 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell reviews 𝗔 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟 🇫🇷 “A revolving door of one-dimensional characters shout, snarl, bite and claw their way around this merry-go-round of misery, and despite the usual level of thespian professionalism on display, both from notable French ch www.ioncinema.com/?p=143133 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 04/09/2026We review Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu's 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗗 🇨🇲 “a portrait that looks simple on the surface but gradually reveals the emotional fault lines created by distance, absence and the stubborn desire to keep a family together .... www.ioncinema.com/?p=143499 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 04/09/20262026 Venice Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet & Clips for Sebastián Múnera's Meteorito 🇨🇴 - selected for Venice Critic's Week @settimana_della_critica / #Venezia83 #BiennaleCinema2026 www.ioncinema.com/?p=143548 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell reviews 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗗 𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗘 𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗘 “As is McDonagh’s custom, there are a lot of laughs thanks to a tight script and superb comedic performances, but there’s a queasy discomfort curdling the poignant melancholy.” @SearchlightPictures @la_Biennale #Venezia83 www.ioncinema.com/?p=143259 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Nicholas Bell > “Those being initiated to Herzog through 𝗕𝗨𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗗 will hopefully embrace the blazing embers of his idiosyncratic signature and dig further into his other glories while his mainstays will hopefully regard this late period weirdness as ducking fe bit.ly/4dicf6p 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 03/09/20262026 Venice Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet & Clip for Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu's House of the Wind (La maison du vent) bit.ly/468GqZY 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Our Nicholas Bell reviews the Venice opener INK “Hardly the vicious castigation on media corruption as something much earlier, Billy Wilder’s masterful Ace in the Hole (1951), 𝗜𝗡𝗞 may feel like it charges in like a lion, but it definitely goes out like a lamb.” ★★½ @la_Biennal bit.ly/4qRiTWM 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Our first Venice review Alina Marazzi's 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗜𝗥𝗟 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗘𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗜𝗥𝗟 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗘𝗜𝗖𝗔 🇮🇹 - “is ultimately a film about who gets to look, who gets remembered, and who gets written into the history contained inside a photograph” bit.ly/4gNcZBJ 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 29/08/2026As we focus on Lido.....we also look at future Croisette offerings. Welcome to our regular Saturday feature. Pack your bags, get your boarding pass ready ✈️ ..... Here is Everything We Know So Far... for 🇫🇷 Justine Triet's 5th feature: 𝗙𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔 www.ioncinema.com/?p=143117 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Janicza Bravo might direct this 1980s NYC true crime tale as PREPPY as early as next month. www.ioncinema.com/?p=143487 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 27/08/2026🇭🇷 Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic (Camera d'Or winning MURINA) will Direct Todd Field Penned 'The Girls' - a book to film project set in Manson era 1960s. www.ioncinema.com/?p=143484 010
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Fans of Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person should be on the look out for 🇨🇦 Ariane Louis-Seize's sophomore feature - it received a good round of funding. 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗬 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗦 will be produced by Colonelle films. www.ioncinema.com/?p=143481 010
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 26/08/20262027 Oscars: 🇯🇵 Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi's 'All of a Sudden' in International Feature Race - NEON will be pushing this in multiple categories!~ www.ioncinema.com/?p=143467 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Oscars 2027: 🇧🇪 — Coward — Lukas Dhont, 🇩🇪 — Everytime — Sandra Wollner & 🇰🇷 — Possible Love — Lee Chang-dong Added to the Race! www.ioncinema.com/?p=143429 020
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Another Quebecois cinema hopeful for Cannes 2027 - Park Ji-Min completes the quartet led by Théodore Pellerin in Philippe Lesage's 𝗜 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗔 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 🇨🇦 www.ioncinema.com/?p=143424 010
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor's Secret Docu 'NAZA' Added to the Golden Lion Competition! www.ioncinema.com/?p=143380 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Welcome to our new regular Saturday feature. Pack your bags, get your boarding pass ready ✈️ here is Everything We Know So Far... for 🇹🇷 Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 𝗣𝗔𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗨𝗡 aka Yorgun Güneş - what will for sure be a Cannes competition selection vying for his 2nd Palme d' www.ioncinema.com/?p=143115 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Sundance 2026 films are starting to receive their theatrical drops.... here is our review for Andrius Blaževičius' How to Divorce During the War - via the Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber folks! www.ioncinema.com/?p=141023 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Watch a clip from the Cannes crowd pleaser THE MARCHING BAND, opening this Friday in New York at Angelika Film Center ahead of a nationwide expansion. x.com/ioncinema/status/209053439983…x.comIONCINEMA (@ioncinema) on XWatch a clip from the Cannes crowd pleaser THE MARCHING BAND, opening this Friday in New York at Angelika Film Center ahead of a nationwide expansion. 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Hindsight is 2026…Midway Mark: Nine U.S. Dramatic Titles Have Found Homes!...Now What? www.ioncinema.com/?p=143242 000
IONCINEMA.com @ioncinema.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Welcome to our Saturday feature! Pack your bags, get your boarding pass ready ..... ✈️ here is Everything We Know So Far... for 🇦🇷 Lisandro Alonso's 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗔 - filmed in 🇧🇷 with Wagner Moura / a "remake" of The Taste of Cherry 🇮🇷 www.ioncinema.com/?p=143116 000
