So much of filmmaking and film-watching boils down to either lending your eyes to another or accepting that loan as a viewer––a process so quick, so immediate ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. Bugonia opens in theaters on October 24.
After dabbling in dystopian fantasy...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Telluride coverage. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere opens in theaters on October 24.
The...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Fantasia coverage. Shelby Oaks opens in theaters on October 24.
There’s been a bit of mystery...
For all the glories that Romanian cinema has enjoyed in the last quarter-century, 2026 has the potential to outshine them all. If one man will be responsible f...
“Klara remembered who she was. She pulled away from the window and she was a sculptor, although she didn't always believe it, an artist––she believed them some...
With Mount Vesuvius looming over southwestern Italy’s idyllic region of Naples, both in history and imagery, one might reasonably think Gianfranco Rosi’s B...
The Currents begins with a curious, impulsive act. Lina (Isabel Aimé González Sola) is being recognized for her work in Switzerland when, suddenly, she complet...
A few years ago at DocLisboa we praised I Saw, in which exiled Russian filmmaker Vadim Kostrov revisits an innocent day. The director is returning to the festi...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. The Mastermind opens in theaters on October 17.
For the second time in t...
