The Best Films at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival

We highlight our favorite films from this year's Berlinale....

Berlin Review: ‘The Other Side of Hope’ is Brilliant and Beautiful With a Defiant Faith in Human Decency

What Kiarostami is to the front seats of a car and Bresson is to the prison, so Aki Kaurismäki is to the perennial mid-80s Helsinki; that dark pastel-colored no...

Recommended Discs & Deals: ‘Arrival,’ ‘The Edge of Seventeen,’ ‘The Tree of Wooden Clogs’ & More

Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week....

Review: The 2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live-Action

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we're reviewing each short category. See the Live-Action section below and the other shorts sections here. Ennemis intér...

New to Streaming: ‘Arrival,’ ‘A Separation,’ ‘The Edge of Seventeen,’ ‘The Love Witch,’ and More

All the newly streaming films on Netflix, FilmStruck, Amazon, and more....

SXSW 2017 Adds World Premiere of Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver’ and More

Kicking off on March 10th is the annual South by Southwest Film Festival. With Terrence Malick's Song to Song set to open the Austin-based event, another hi...

Slamdance Review: ‘The Family’ is Audacious as it is Frustrasting

Long runtimes have become a bit of a trend on the festival circuit in recent years, with titles like Happy Hour, A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, and OJ: Mad...

Sundance Review: ‘Patti Cake$’ Has Infectious Energy and Familiar Beats

Rhymes, beats, and an audience are all that Patricia Dombrowski requires to achieve her dreams of rap stardom. She already has the former, composed from her per...

Review: ‘Behemoth’ is a Visually Masterful Documentary

There's just one thing missing from Zhao Liang's visually masterful documentary Behemoth: a before image of what this wasteland of coal and rock used to be befo...

Sundance Review: ‘Killing Ground’ is a Casually Engaging Thriller

A rather satisfactory thriller from Aussie filmmaker Damien Power, Killing Ground is casually engaging and skillfully plotted, despite a bland absence of nuance...