Michael Granados

Michael is a marathon runner, engineer, and film reporter based in Los Angeles. He regularly attends international film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Venice, and AFI Fest. As a member of the selection committee for the True/False Film Festival, Michael has a keen interest in experimental, international, and non-fiction cinema.

Cannes 2026

Michael Granados2 days ago

Cannes 2026 (Competition): Paper Tiger (dir. James Gray) | Review

James Gray delivers his career best work in his spellbinding crime thriller about two brothers chasing the American dream.
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Cannes 2026

Michael Granados1 week ago

Cannes 2026 (Competition): The Unknown (dir. Arthur Harari, 2026) | Review

"The Unknown" presents a mystifying labyrinth of complex identity issues, separating the physical from the mental through body swapping.
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Cannes 2026

Michael Granados1 week ago

Cannes 2026 (Competition): All of a Sudden (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi) | Review

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s humane drama offers a blossoming friendship amid tragedy, rewiring our perspectives on what truly being alive means.
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Berlinale 2026

Michael GranadosFebruary 22, 2026

Berlinale 2026: The Loneliest Man in Town (dirs. Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel) | Review

Fiction and reality are intertwined in Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s beautiful and moving portrait of Viennese blue’s musician Al…
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Berlinale 2026

Michael GranadosFebruary 18, 2026

Berlinale 2026: London (dir. Sebastian Brameshuber) | Review

Sebastian Brameshuber’s meditative road movie reveals the human condition through our connections with others and our past.
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IFFR 2026

Michael GranadosFebruary 9, 2026

IFFR 2026: The Misconceived (dir. James N. Kienitz Wilkins) | Review

"The Misconceived" is a poignant and comedic self-referential reflection of an artist living in the 2020s. James N. Kienitz Wilkins'…
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Spotlight: Emerging European Talents

Michael GranadosSeptember 3, 2025

Venice 2025: Short Summer (dir. Nastia Korkia) | Review

"Short Summer" depicts the Russian childhood during wartime from a naturalistic lens, evoking the memories and small details that shape…
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Locarno Film Festival 2025

Michael GranadosAugust 15, 2025

Locarno 2025: The Seasons (by Maureen Fazendeiro) | Review

A poetic and poignant portrait of Alentejo, Portugal, where time’s toll on the landscape calls for preservation, not only in…
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Locarno Film Festival 2025

Michael GranadosAugust 11, 2025

Locarno 2025: Phantoms of July (dir. Julian Radlmaier) | Review

Julian Radlmaier’s charming exploration of alienation through Sangerhausen’s political history is a multilayered examination of collectivism and fate.
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Cannes 2025

Michael GranadosMay 28, 2025

Cannes 2025: The Secret Agent (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho) | Review

A love letter to cinema and Recife, Brazil, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s latest examines how we reconstruct the past through an…
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