Depicting mental illness in film is hard for two reasons. One is the fact that actors are playacting. This may not be the case across the board—performances cou...
While America has Independence Day, the French celebrate Bastille Day 10 days later and this year they'll have a film of the same title. Rather than depicti...
Last year's overlooked Faults proved that we'd be eager to spend more time witnessing the acting talents of Mary Elizabeth Winstead in more-or-less a one-ro...
Arriving on Blu-ray this week is Danny Boyle's Aaron Sorkin-scripted, Michael Fassbender-led drama Steve Jobs, which we named one of the best films of 2015....
It’s not long into Death in Sarajevo, Bosnian writer-director Danis Tanović’s seventh feature, before it becomes clear we’re navigating allegorical territory. O...
Jeff Nichols is kicking off the year quite well, with his sci-fi thriller Midnight Special premiering at Berlin this past week and his newest film, Loving, ...
There are many reasons Cinema Guild is probably our favorite distributor, chief among them the sense that their slate consists almost entirely of titles tha...
In 2004, it looked as if Team America: World Police had hammered the last nail in the coffin for cinema's definitive sex scene. Then, last year, in Anomalisa, C...
Halfway through The Patriarch (Mahana), young Simeon (Akuhata Keef) is enjoying a trip to the cinema that he's fought hard for. His grandfather, Tamihana (Temue...
A simple act of defiance against the Nazi regime inspired German author Hans Fallada to write the novel Every Man Dies Alone. The themes of Fallada's novel reso...
