America isn't the only country with a portion of its population rejecting refugee clemency (although it's the most high profile due to international stature, ec...
Mia Hansen-Løve has carved a unique career for herself as a filmmaker of tacit sensitivity and stories on the margins of more familiar ones. Eden traversed the ...
Less than an hour from Naples, Italy is Castel Volturno, a place marred by newspaper headlines like "Forsaken Village" and "Sex, Drugs, and the Mafia." It shoul...
Never had the Netflix logo been welcomed by Venetian audiences with an applause as rapturous as the one it received when the iconic N popped up to introduce wha...
At least based of its original title of Where Life is Born, director Carlos Reygadas’ fifth feature film from the outset seemed to promise the ultimate realizat...
Shinya Tsukamoto introduced his latest film Killing at the Toronto International Film Festival as a “desperate scream.” The writer, actor, director, cinematogra...
For all his stylistic faults, French-Canadian film festival darling Xavier Dolan has never lacked confidence. From his personal and intimately-scaled debut I Ki...
It’s always frustrating when a documentary is so intent on one story that it plainly misses a more interesting one that’s, just… right there. Divide and Conquer...
Rojo opens as people leave a house with objects in-hand, the assumption being that they were bought in an estate sale or pilfered before one could begin. A man ...
Do you have a Lee Israel work on your shelf? What should be a matter of owning one of her books or not since she was a notable author of biographies who hit the...
