“He’s hardly a real auteur,” says a woman of an arthouse director in Hong Sangsoo’s achingly melancholic Hotel by the River, “and he does ambivalent stuff.” Hon...
Looks are deceiving with Isabel Coixet's The Bookshop, an adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel from 1978. What appears to be a run...
Reception can be pretty unreliable atop the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea Region, so the women picking tea leaves in Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti’s...
“ is the best revenge.” Does this sound familiar but incomplete? That’s perhaps a good template to consider when going into What Keeps You Alive, a dark and bum...
Mile 22 is perhaps the least sentimental action film of the decade. Any whiff of internal conflict is undercut by an "Are you done with this yet? We have real s...
Over the past few years, Ricky D’Ambrose has established himself as one of the more intriguing independent American directors. His shorts, especially Six Cents ...
The story is older than Shakespeare: two star-crossed lovers attempt to make things work despite a family’s best (worst) efforts. The difference here, as Hollyw...
Despite opening atop Chile’s Las Campanas Observatory, Cielo is not strictly a scientific documentary, or even a film about astronomy. It does not purport to co...
The boys and their father are slumped in the back of a dying pickup truck. Minutes earlier, dad lost his job, in part because he brought the boys with him to hi...
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich will turn some heads, but it will surely turn more stomachs. These feel like the most crystalline goals of writer S. Craig Zah...
