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Its self-reflexivity reveals a riveting feminist tome about the winds of cultural change and the difficulty of de-centering yourself from your own...
It's one of the most immaculately designed war films you're likely to see this year, with an enveloping use of environment and atmosphere. But when it...
The movie takes wildly unexpected turns, but all of these are in service of an extensive dramatic exploration of the ways in which religion, political...
Set in 1949 and starring Sandra Hüller as Thomas Mann's daughter, the Best Director winner at Cannes reckons with the cost of holding onto one's...
In mining her most intimate anxieties, as a mother and a creator, she arrives with one of the year's most striking debuts, which builds quietly but...
The film, which screened at Tribeca, is shockingly dull for a tale of people so impassioned that they were willing to kill themselves based on...
The film, for all its faults, subverts hyper-masculine war tropes to focus on intimacy, queer desire and art as a tool of survival.
The Cannes Critics' Week selection (and Grand Prix winner) marks the feature debut of Atlan, who crafts an enormously affecting tale of volatile...
The film reimagines and builds on art from the margins, transforming it into the kind of lavish, expensive production that would, in years past, never...
This drama provides enough hints to ensure you'll come to quick conclusions about what did or did not transpire, but just as swiftly, the movie widens...
Down with the bourgeoisie? Absolutely. But must the revolution be so sloppy?
Gomis frames intimate family gatherings with documentary immediacy in this meditation on cultural continuity.
While its makers may not think of the film as a transgender story, it speaks the language of one, and actress Sandra Hüller seems to have approached...
After more than 50 years, the documentary filmmaker's son brings his father’s greatest feat to stunning completion
While not exactly a return to form, the filmmaker's first feature in a dozen years is nonetheless a welcome comeback.
It was a year of riches—theatrically, on streaming and awaiting distribution.
Jeremy Allen White’s conception of Springsteen is joyful to witness, but the film offers little to engage with beyond its performances.
It’s hard not to wonder if Jude assumes the film's intended audience isn’t on his level, resulting in a compromised piece that stops dead in order...
This gentle drama—which won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival—seems unassuming at first but builds its three semi-related sagas...
The story examines how creative release can both mask and magnify personal turmoil, tracing one man’s attempt to turn emotional chaos into...
His directorial debut is filled with powerful ideas, even if it doesn’t cohere enough to be consistently engaging.
By the time the film's credits roll, you may feel more spiritually connected to yourself and those you’ve lost.
Cinematographer Jermaine Edwards’ thoughtful use of high-contrast celluloid yields a warm and detailed texture, like a living photograph.
Mascaro's direction and Guillermo Garza's cinematography provide a consistent, simmering momentum.
Holland all but stops short of invoking mass-produced Che Guevara t-shirts to make her point about the vulturous ways Kafka’s work and life have...
As visually pristine as it is dramatically dull, it’s one of the fall festival season’s most perplexing “prestige” films.
Whatever Van Sant’s feelings about this kind of subject matter may have once been, he appears to now translate them through a lens of sheer...
This at-times intriguing portrait of Francis Ford Coppola’s creative process is never allowed to probe deeply enough.
Roy’s approach is melodic and understated, and mines drama from human corners where other storytellers might not think to look.
The filmmaker has reimagined a cult classic for an era defined by online conspiracies and unchecked digital influence.
The film means well, but its conflicts are so haphazardly conceived that it ends up making a mockery of the very themes it purports to approach.
The Darren Aronofsky-produced documentary explores the emotional and symbolic weight of descending into the Earth.
Dylan O’Brien stars (twice) in this grief-tinged drama with twisted turns.
It’s a moving and at times risky film that uses a grisly real-life murder to turn the lens on our fascination with true crime.
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