Loving modern cinema and admiring Tony Leung are essentially a one-to-one deal. One can look no further than Film at Lincoln Center’s recent retrospective of t...
In Silent Friend, characters from three eras interact with the fauna around them. In 1908, Grete (Luna Wedler) tries to study medicine at a time when women wer...
With 18 features and counting to his name—including modern classics like My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument and A Christmas Tale—French writer-direct...
Lucrecia Martel is one of our great chroniclers of existing on stolen land. Through wit, clarity, and without any hollow platitudes, her work cuts through whit...
Somewhere in a tower block, a Korean woman (Shim Eun-kyung) sits at a table in front of a blank piece of paper and pauses to think. After a moment, she begins ...
Short though we may be on novel ways to make movies, Pete Ohs has perhaps cracked something new. Seeing each film he makes as a "table of bubbles"—a beautiful,...
Full disclosure: Blue Heron goes such lengths proving itself one of 2026’s greatest films (plus 2025’s, if we wish to be sticklers about premiere dates) that a...
Watching David Lowery’s Mother Mary made me think, in some unexpected way, of a scene early in Todd Field’s Tár, in which Lydia Tár dresses down a Juilliard st...
Among the true faithful, Serpent's Path is no new object from Kiyoshi Kurosawa. But despite standing among his greatest films, it's stayed in a much greater ob...
Isabelle Huppert's performance in Ulrike Ottinger’s The Blood Countess, a vampire fantasia set in Vienna (and co-starring no less of a local icon than Conchita...
