Family and belonging structure society to a mythical scale, their symbolic value readily plugged into ideologies categorizing the world into binaries—"us" and ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. The film opens in theaters and is available digitally on May 29.
“The world ...
Cinema has taken viewers to the trenches of World War I so often that audiences might as well have formed sensory memories of a throat-clenching terror, the sc...
In 1858, pre-Freud times, a castle in the Yorkshire moors of Northern England by the name of Ensor House becomes the new dwelling place for young governess Win...
Clio Barnard returns to Directors’ Fortnight after The Selfish Giant and Ali & Ava with an adaptation of Keiran Goddard’s novel I See Buildings Fall Li...
A (lonely) man meets a (beautiful) woman who would go on to change his life––a tale as old as time. Transformations, physical or psychological, are part and pa...
“Look into my eyes / can you see they’re open wide / would I lie to you?” Those lyrics linger in the air as a soft whisper for only a moment before the accompa...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 15.
In April 2022, two months after Russia...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 8.
Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi is bes...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27.
It’s common for a successful artist ...