Tag: Sean Penn

One Battle After Another

Posted by Alonso Duralde | Sep 17, 2025 | Featured |

Sprawling and intimate, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest takes on sweeping political and personal ideas with equal assurance.

Black Flies

Posted by Jay Weissberg | May 19, 2023 | Cannes, Cannes 2023, Featured, Festivals |

A punishing, loud plunge into the brutality of EMT work in Brooklyn’s grittiest hoods that banks on Sean Penn’s stardom but is tone-deaf to its problematic treatment of immigrant communities and women.