8
... as much bitterness as there is sweetness.
Praised for being the first feature-length film shot in Longtian (Fuqing), Time and Tide captures a texture of rural China that has never been seen before.
8
… beautiful, unsettling and occasionally more emphatic than it needs to be …
7.5
... a riot from end to end.
8
… a compelling, eerily relevant film about the consequences of downsizing in the face of AI, and the lengths one will go for their family.
4.7
… a nearly plotless, depth-avoiding machine that takes good ideas and bludgeons them to death with repetition, repetition, repetition.
9.5
… looks and sounds like the most intense physical meditation that the human body is capable of processing.
It’s midway through the 2026 Cannes Film Festival when FilmInk meets Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. The festival has been good to him in the past; he won the Jury prize
8
… a work of remarkable emotional precision — understated, unresolved, and difficult to shake off.
7.7
… an Akira-sliding good time.