Fatherland Review: Cannes 2026
Featuring captivating performances from Sandra Huller and Hanns Zischler, and breathtaking cinematography, it is hard not to be enthralled by Fatherland.
Pawel Pawlikowski
79th Annual Cannes Film Festival Preview
The 79th annual Cannes Film Festival runs from May 12 to May 23. With 200 films from nearly 150 countries, here are our most 15 anticipated films of the festival, ranging from Hamaguchi to Schoenbrun and Mungiu.
Our 100 Favourite Movies of the Decade: 2018
That Shelf's look back at our 100 favourite movies of the past 10 years is closing in on the end. Here's our favourites from 2018!
Cold War Review
Will audiences ever tire of silly love songs? A handful of ditties replay throughout Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War and each reprisal of a tune breaks one’s heart into pieces.
TIFF 2018: Cold War Review
Cold War TIFF 2018 Review.
Ida Review
For his latest film, the powerful and low key Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski takes the term “negative space” to wonderfully literal and figurative extremes.
TIFF 2013: Ida Review
Ida Special Presentation Director: Pawel Pawlikowski In 1960s Communist Poland, Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) who, on the occasion of taking her vows, is requested by the church to visit her long-lost aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza). Previously unaware of her aunt’s existence, Anna is doubly shocked by the jarring, alienating world outside of the coventry. It’s as […]
Woman in the Fifth Review
A bit of an interesting failure, Pawel Pawlikowski's The Woman in the Fifth comes tantalizingly close to becoming a great thriller before losing the thread.
