It took seven years before any filmmaker dared touch the Utøya massacre; then in 2018, all of a sudden, we had two too many. It probably didn't help that the f...
Big agriculture and a renewable energy company (of all people) threaten the livelihood of a Catalonian peach farming family in Alcarràs, Carla Simón’s latest s...
Spotting COVID-era ephemera was novel in the films of 2021—even in some of the best. As early as last February we saw masks being worn, some pointedly below th...
As you watch Dark Glasses, Dario Argento’s first film in a decade, it’s nice to think back on his recent performance as the aging film critic in Gaspar Noé’s V...
In Before, Now & Then the social and political upheavals of 1960s Indonesia provide a hardened backbone to what is otherwise a tale of longing and simmerin...
In Both Sides of the Blade a romance breaks down and threatens to break up in a stylish apartment overlooking the sweet Parisian skyline. The director is of co...
Anyone seeking a peek into Ulrich Seidl's worldview--perhaps his soul--could do worse than Rimini, his first film since Safari in 2016 and first narrative feat...
In Being John Malkovich, an entire half-hour passes by before John Cusack’s hangdog puppeteer peaks behind his filing cabinet and finds a tunnel to another man...
In Brighton 4th, the Georgian diaspora of Brooklyn's Brighton Beach (an area known colloquially as “Little Odessa” for its largely East European and Russian co...
In the new documentary Factory to the Workers, the men and women of a doggedly socialist metal factory in northern Croatia struggle facing up to the realities ...
