Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

Aki Kaurismäki proves himself a master of deadpan, while André Téchiné turns in a spectacular belly-flop of a film Some wonderful, big-hearted comedy was provided at the beginning of Cannes's second ...

Madeline (Alice Barnole), the tragic figure at the heart of Bertrand Bonello’s somber, hypnotic film House of Pleasures (released in the US as House of Tolerance), is a prostitute known as “the woman ...

SET in a brothel about 1900, writer-director Bertrand Bonello's House of Tolerance is one of the highlights of this year's French Film Festival, which opens on March 7. The film unfolds in a ...

In this deliciously decadent period drama, a madam (Noemie Lvovsky) presides over an elegant, early-20th-century brothel, which houses nearly a dozen prostitutes whose lives are profoundly altered by ...