‘Essential Truths of the Lake’ Review: Things Don’t End Well in Lav Diaz’s Languorous Detective Story

TELLURIDE- Despite a varied resume that includes art-house Sci-Fi, a classic coming-of-age tale, and a haunting drama on racial injustice, we weren’t sure Jeff Nichols had it in him to make a movie such as “The Bikeriders.” After its world premiere at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival, we’ll likely never doubt him again. Nichols has crafted a highly entertaining period piece on a legendary biker club that is at times sexy, funny, and filled with fisticuffs.

“Tell me your story, and I will tell you who you are.” This line is repeated through the 8-episode first-season run of Apple TV+’s fascinating “The Changeling,” spoken via narration by the author of the acclaimed novel on which it’s based, Victor LaValle. This production is clearly the work of storytellers, people who believe in the power of not just the personal journey but the mythology that still serves as a foundation for so much of the world.

Guy Lodge Film Critic “The Promised Land” deserves a sexier title than “The Promised Land”: It’s hard to hear those well-worn words and not expect something as beige and starchy as the spuds grown on its titular terrain. It has one, in fact.

Belíssimo.Italian organized crime makes a weightier match for deadly Robert McCall — a Godzilla vs. Mothra of the world’s seedy underbelly.

Jessica Kiang It takes place on a sugar plantation, but Ena Sendijarević’s magnificently composed, eerily satirical “Sweet Dreams” has something more like acid flowing through its veins. Acid — or maybe formaldehyde, given the embalmed pallor of the dysfunctional Dutch colonial family whose values are so elegantly dissected within it.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In out-there Estonian comedy “The Invisible Fight,” a clueless Russian border guard somehow escapes a surprise attack by three formidable Chinese action figures — gravity-defying kung fu warriors who swoop in out of nowhere, blasting Black Sabbath on their bright red boombox — so he does what anyone in his position would do: He resolves to become an Orthodox monk. Huh? “I guess God has other plans for you,” a less-fortunate comrade wheezes with his dying breath, setting up one of the oddest plots audiences are likely to find on the art-house circuit this year.

Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget, the highly tipped animated sequel Aardman and director Sam Fell have made for Netflix, will debut at this year’s London Film Festival.

If you're as nosy as we are then you probably spent a lot of this past 2023 Love Island series wondering how the stars achieved their glowing tans and toned figures. We particularly wondered what Jess Harding did to get such flawless skin and perfect features – and now we finally have the answer. Posting new Instagram Story videos from the passenger seat of a car, Jess answers "aesthetic-related" questions from followers.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic It’s been a few years since Rhiannon Giddens did anything remotely in the ballpark of a “pop” album, and it’s not hard to come up with reasons for that: Besides her having a full dance card, you could almost argue she’s overqualified for the job. The recipient of both a MacArthur “genius grant” and a Pulitzer, the banjo-wielding balladeer has sustained herself for a while at the intersection of earthy and highbrow, most recently winning acclaim for her opera, “Omar,” and she looks at least at much at home fronting the LA Phil as she used to leading the old-fashioned string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Olivér Rudolf’s “My Mother, the Monster” has won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink, its industry section that featured projects from Southeast Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Hungarian feature film project, which is produced by Genovéva Petrovits at Kino Alfa, received a cash prize of €20,000 ($21,727). The film focuses on Éva, a mother in her forties who is disappointed with her life and tired of feeling insignificant.

Belly will choose Conrad or Jeremiah. During Season 1, it was clear the Belly only had eyes for Conrad. However, in Season 2, Belly’s focus shifted to Conrad’s younger brother Jeremiah.

Joseph Quinn and rumored girlfriend Alicia Davis are spending some quality time together!

Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe's kids are all grown up! On Thursday, Ava and Deacon Phillippe stepped out to attend an event together — without their famous parents.The siblings were all smiles as they attended the Molly Dickson x Madewell Celebration Event, which was held in West Hollywood, California, on Thursday.Ava, 23, looked cool in a denim mini skirt and white crop top, while her younger brother, 19-year-old Deacon, opted for a pants and bomber jacket look.The duo happily posed together at the event and looked remarkably similar to their famous parents, who were married from 1999 to 2008.Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon in 2002Ava and Deacon even posed in a photo booth at the event. The elder sibling shared the pics on her Instagram Story, quipping alongside them, «These genes love your jeans.»Deacon also posted photos from the event, thanking the organizers for letting him and Ava «take dumb sibling pics.»When ET spoke with Ryan in February, he opened up about his kids' future in the entertainment industry.«The focus is really music, that's what he's in school for right now,» the proud dad said of Deacon.

Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio is heading back for another chance at The Challenge glory — but a showmance is out of the question.

, which Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are adapting for Netflix.Fern's life was once full of potential, but now she's back home running her mom's lakeside resort, which she never wanted to do. Her life is turned upside down when a man from her past shows up offering to help.One of the biggest book-to-screen adaptations of 2023 is Christopher Nolan's the story of how the brilliant J. Robert Oppenheimer played a pivotal role in the creation of the nuclear bomb.

, which Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are adapting for Netflix.Fern's life was once full of potential, but now she's back home running her mom's lakeside resort, which she never wanted to do. Her life is turned upside down when a man from her past shows up offering to help.One of the biggest book-to-screen adaptations of 2023 is Christopher Nolan's the story of how the brilliant J. Robert Oppenheimer played a pivotal role in the creation of the nuclear bomb.

plopped a boxing ring in the middle of the orchestra nearly 10 years ago.But Huey Lewis did not sing “Power of Car,” he sang “Power of Love.” And heart is completely absent from director John Rando’s shiny and serviceable staging of the beloved 1985 science-fiction movie.Coursing emotion, teen angst and can-do scrappiness are what set director Robert Zemeckis’ original film apart from other entries in the time-travel genre. “Back To The Future” wasn’t HG Wells or “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.” And it’s hardly remembered as a flashy spectacle, either.

Back To The Future: The Musical made me very nostalgic for that great time-traveling ’80s movie, but Peggy Sue Got Married isn’t available on any of my streaming services.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Next time someone wistfully insists, “They don’t make ’em like they used to,” why not point that nostalgic cinephile to the work of Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon? The Belgium-based creative couple are almost single-handedly keeping the classic burlesque tradition alive on screen — if the word “single-handedly” can fairly be used to describe a near-silent comic duo with four hands between them, plus a growing company of collaborators (including dancer Kaori Ito) and a prosthetic arm with a mind of its own. In “The Falling Star,” Abel and Gordon bring their old-school comedic sensibility to what could loosely be described as a detective story, told in a film noir style punctuated with flashes of color: a red dress, a tiny green car, a bright yellow scooter.

Ellise Shafer “Lost in Paris” directing duo Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon have shared a first look at their new film “The Falling Star,” which premieres at this year’s Locarno Film Festival. Abel and Gordon also star in the film, which follows Boris (Abel), a former activist who works at a bartender at the Falling Star. According to the film’s official synopsis, Boris’ “guilty past resurfaces when a victim finds him and wants revenge.