Tomris Laffly
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Film Writer/Critic | ✍🏼 Variety, RogerEbert.com, The Playlist, The Wrap, Vanity Fair, TIME, Vulture, W Mag, Filmmaker Mag etc. | NYFCC member | Dog lover… ♥️
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Tomris Laffly
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· May 27
The 15 Best Cannes Films That Will Dominate This Awards Season
Charli xcx was right; it is Joachim Trier Summer.
www.elle.com
I screened 40 titles exactly in the #Cannes lineup, and here are 15 films that excited me the most. Lynne Ramsay! Oliver Hermanus! Bi Gan! Joachim Trier! Hafzia Herzi! Oh mon dieu… For Elle Magazine: www.elle.com/culture/movi...
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#Noirvember is a global month-long holiday celebrated in November by cinephiles focusing on the film noir genre –created in 2010 by film writer Marya E. Gates as a month-long challenge.
Day 17. Tonight, I'll be enjoying 'Sweet Smell Of Success', 1957
Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Day 17. Tonight, I'll be enjoying 'Sweet Smell Of Success', 1957
Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#Noirvember is a global month-long holiday celebrated in November by cinephiles focusing on the film noir genre –created in 2010 by film writer Marya E. Gates as a month-long challenge.
Day 17. Tonight, I'll be enjoying 'Sweet Smell Of Success', 1957
Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Day 17. Tonight, I'll be enjoying 'Sweet Smell Of Success', 1957
Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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this shit is like if Anna Karenina and Hanna had an Italian baby and did an arranged marriage with Vertov
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
this shit is like if Anna Karenina and Hanna had an Italian baby and did an arranged marriage with Vertov
Haven’t, but you had me at Joe Wright! 👀
finally started Joe Wright's Mussolini series, M. Son of the Century, and this thing is fucking incredible. holy shit. you guys seen this?
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Haven’t, but you had me at Joe Wright! 👀
That time of year in America when many Americans inexplicably prefer mass-produced chemical sludge that comes out of a tin with circular tin marks (kinda like some wet pet food), instead of totally yummy, freshly made cranberry sauce, the easiest thing to make in the world. 🥳
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
That time of year in America when many Americans inexplicably prefer mass-produced chemical sludge that comes out of a tin with circular tin marks (kinda like some wet pet food), instead of totally yummy, freshly made cranberry sauce, the easiest thing to make in the world. 🥳
Truly incredible movie. Several of us loved this in Cannes & have been singing its praises. Agreed: don’t sleep on it. 🙏🏼
Niche post for critics and movie-awards-season nerds: Don't sleep on The Plague, a superb, excruciatingly tense American debut film--not horror, but in its way terrifying--about being a 12- or 13-year-old boy among other 12- or 13-year-old boys. Opens next month; it's haunted me since I saw it.
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Truly incredible movie. Several of us loved this in Cannes & have been singing its praises. Agreed: don’t sleep on it. 🙏🏼
“There’s no way around it. If you read this article, you are going to have to imagine Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, having an absolutely eyeball-melting orgasm.”
And the 2025 National Lede Award goes to… 😂
And the 2025 National Lede Award goes to… 😂
I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“There’s no way around it. If you read this article, you are going to have to imagine Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, having an absolutely eyeball-melting orgasm.”
And the 2025 National Lede Award goes to… 😂
And the 2025 National Lede Award goes to… 😂
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I am stuck between how much I hate all this for the people who have their work stolen and how much I am frustrated by people who believe they should be able to do absolutely nothing to verify where something is coming from and still be confident it’s going to work.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I am stuck between how much I hate all this for the people who have their work stolen and how much I am frustrated by people who believe they should be able to do absolutely nothing to verify where something is coming from and still be confident it’s going to work.
Perhaps other than taking obnoxiously loud calls & not using headphones, there is no public behavior I judge more harshly than this. This is an UWS hair salon but this lady thinks it’s her…living room? (Then again, imagine putting shoes on your living room seating.) Dear god.
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Perhaps other than taking obnoxiously loud calls & not using headphones, there is no public behavior I judge more harshly than this. This is an UWS hair salon but this lady thinks it’s her…living room? (Then again, imagine putting shoes on your living room seating.) Dear god.
You know, not EVERY tech company has to have an Original Movies arm. 🥱
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
You know, not EVERY tech company has to have an Original Movies arm. 🥱
I reviewed the Kyrgyz #Oscars entry, BLACK RED YELLOW. Some worthwhile & observant work here, but the film still left me unfulfilled on the whole. (E.g. I’ll always root for romantic love in cinema, but it needs to be portrayed stronger than this.) variety.com/2025/film/re...
‘Black Red Yellow’ Review: Kyrgyz Oscar Entry Weaves the Serene Rhythms of Traditional Rug-Making With an Unassuming Love Story
Erring on the side of stillness, Aktan Arym Kubat’s drama is strengthened by ceremonious aesthetics but feels unconvincing in the romance it portrays.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I reviewed the Kyrgyz #Oscars entry, BLACK RED YELLOW. Some worthwhile & observant work here, but the film still left me unfulfilled on the whole. (E.g. I’ll always root for romantic love in cinema, but it needs to be portrayed stronger than this.) variety.com/2025/film/re...
Made Turkish kısır for dinner. 😋
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Made Turkish kısır for dinner. 😋
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Udo Kier in Swan Song turned out to be one of my favorite Udo performances and is a beautiful and funny meditation on death if you’re in the market for an Udo you might not have caught.
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Udo Kier in Swan Song turned out to be one of my favorite Udo performances and is a beautiful and funny meditation on death if you’re in the market for an Udo you might not have caught.
Did back-to-back Q&As for THE SECRET AGENT and HAMNET today. And I know of no greater joy than moderating talks with brilliant artists that I love. ♥️
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Did back-to-back Q&As for THE SECRET AGENT and HAMNET today. And I know of no greater joy than moderating talks with brilliant artists that I love. ♥️
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Why do I love living in Boston? Yo-Yo Ma playing the Bach cello suites before bringing Mayor Wu out to duet for an encore, that’s why.
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Why do I love living in Boston? Yo-Yo Ma playing the Bach cello suites before bringing Mayor Wu out to duet for an encore, that’s why.
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When I was a teenager in Recife, I'd read KMF's film criticism in one of the local papers and his eyes went over my head. And now he's made several great movies. NEIGHBORING SOUNDS hit really close to home, literally and metaphorically. His sound design is great, too.
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
When I was a teenager in Recife, I'd read KMF's film criticism in one of the local papers and his eyes went over my head. And now he's made several great movies. NEIGHBORING SOUNDS hit really close to home, literally and metaphorically. His sound design is great, too.
Among other categories, THE SECRET AGENT absolutely has to be in the #Oscars conversation for Production Design (Thales Junqueira) & Costumes (Rita Azevedo). What this film pulls off in those departments is a goddamn miracle.
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Among other categories, THE SECRET AGENT absolutely has to be in the #Oscars conversation for Production Design (Thales Junqueira) & Costumes (Rita Azevedo). What this film pulls off in those departments is a goddamn miracle.
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How did this day just get better?
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
How did this day just get better?
Booked a cabin in the woods with a wood-burning fireplace & hot tub near a creek for the Thanksgiving weekend, and trying to remember the last time I felt….this excited about something. 🥹😭
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Booked a cabin in the woods with a wood-burning fireplace & hot tub near a creek for the Thanksgiving weekend, and trying to remember the last time I felt….this excited about something. 🥹😭
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This never happens in politics and too rarely happens in life.
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This never happens in politics and too rarely happens in life.
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This is a wonderful Q&A.
Train Dreams is one of my favorites of the year, and Tomris gets Kerry Condon and Felicity Jones to talk beautifully about its emotional power.
Train Dreams is one of my favorites of the year, and Tomris gets Kerry Condon and Felicity Jones to talk beautifully about its emotional power.
Felicity Jones & Kerry Condon don’t share any scenes in TRAIN DREAMS, one of my absolute favorites this year. But the characters they play jointly represent the film’s soulful themes that I hold close. A joy to interview them, for VOGUE: www.vogue.com/article/feli...
Felicity Jones and Kerry Condon on the Moving Naturalism of ‘Train Dreams’
www.vogue.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This is a wonderful Q&A.
Train Dreams is one of my favorites of the year, and Tomris gets Kerry Condon and Felicity Jones to talk beautifully about its emotional power.
Train Dreams is one of my favorites of the year, and Tomris gets Kerry Condon and Felicity Jones to talk beautifully about its emotional power.
It’s remarkable that the only time I saw anything resembling semi-normal humanity on the current president’s face was during his meeting with Zohran Mamdani.
This is obviously not a praise of Tr*mp, but a big praise of our new brilliant mayor. I trust that he’ll get shit done.
This is obviously not a praise of Tr*mp, but a big praise of our new brilliant mayor. I trust that he’ll get shit done.
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It’s remarkable that the only time I saw anything resembling semi-normal humanity on the current president’s face was during his meeting with Zohran Mamdani.
This is obviously not a praise of Tr*mp, but a big praise of our new brilliant mayor. I trust that he’ll get shit done.
This is obviously not a praise of Tr*mp, but a big praise of our new brilliant mayor. I trust that he’ll get shit done.
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Don Jr: Did he ever look at you that way?
Eric: Nope. Never. You?
Don Jr: 😥😥😥😥
Eric: Nope. Never. You?
Don Jr: 😥😥😥😥
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Don Jr: Did he ever look at you that way?
Eric: Nope. Never. You?
Don Jr: 😥😥😥😥
Eric: Nope. Never. You?
Don Jr: 😥😥😥😥
Felicity Jones & Kerry Condon don’t share any scenes in TRAIN DREAMS, one of my absolute favorites this year. But the characters they play jointly represent the film’s soulful themes that I hold close. A joy to interview them, for VOGUE: www.vogue.com/article/feli...
Felicity Jones and Kerry Condon on the Moving Naturalism of ‘Train Dreams’
www.vogue.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Felicity Jones & Kerry Condon don’t share any scenes in TRAIN DREAMS, one of my absolute favorites this year. But the characters they play jointly represent the film’s soulful themes that I hold close. A joy to interview them, for VOGUE: www.vogue.com/article/feli...
Your company is instantly dead to me if you ever send me an email along the lines of, “Are you still thinking about the items in your cart? Here is 10% off.” Fuck you, and your cheap & stalker-y marketing tactics.
November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Your company is instantly dead to me if you ever send me an email along the lines of, “Are you still thinking about the items in your cart? Here is 10% off.” Fuck you, and your cheap & stalker-y marketing tactics.