The synopsis doesn’t lie. Young Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is in prison, his five-year sentence just put into effect. He has no papers despite being born in Lebanon ...
Survival at all costs. That’s the theme–or, more precisely, a theme–of Steve McQueen’s timely, tremendously entertaining Widows. This is precision entertainment...
There’s an interesting framing device within Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy that strangely only frames the first half of the film. It’s a scene wherein Da...
It was fun to laugh back in January when Donald Trump spoke to the media about how he wanted fewer immigrants from "shithole" countries and more from the likes ...
After fifteen years in jail for murder, Ronan Callahan (Moe Dunford) returns home to find his victim's father caught in a loop. Every day spent behind bars was ...
It's weird to think about a movie like Push today — an under-appreciated, much-maligned sci-fi that I'd argue is a lot better than the legacy it's been given. T...
Two strangers running from personal demons collide at the start of Laura Luchetti's Sardinia-set Twin Flower. He (Kallil Kone's Basim) is an Ivory Coast immigra...
Nicole Kidman is relentless in the fascinating, ambitiously pitch-black, often off-putting police drama Destroyer. Karyn Kusama’s follow-up to the slow-burn hor...
By Bedatri D. Choudhury
Neil Jordan's Greta starts off being a story of two lonely people living in New York: the eponymous Greta (Isabelle Huppert) and France...
There’s a strange, unspoken melancholy that hangs over the otherwise loose and endearing The Old Man & the Gun, a collective acknowledgement of the passage ...