Olivier Assayas has built a career examining morally ambiguous figures within complex political landscapes. From Carlos the Jackal to the Cuban Five, the French filmmaker has a knack for finding ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fascism is an easy word to bandy about, and The Wizard of the Kremlin is not about that; it’s about the modern concept of fake ...
Whether you know it or not, we’re sort of in the middle of a Jude Law renaissance. The actor has been quietly turning out slyly nuanced performances in several films and series over the last few years ...
Post-Soviet Russian history is treated as the stuff of dark fairy-tale in French director Olivier Assayas’s uneven new feature, The Wizard of the Kremlin, which is screening in competition at the ...
The film made its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Variety's Owen Gleiberman says the stars give "ace performances" and that Law, "with burning eyes and a tight grimace, plays Putin by taking ...
The lights went down precisely at 6 pm, the designated starting hour for Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man, and people began murmuring in pleasant surprise: at premium TIFF screenings where a starry ...