Eugène Green’s The Tree of Knowledge offers us, in movie form, the sad spectacle of a man who insists on cracking jokes without realizing that…
Gone are the days of awards contenders being packed like sardines into December’s release calendar. Instead, in recent years October has become the prime launching…
The themes of time and guilt are ribboned together in Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, a modest yet sweeping period drama set in the Pacific Northwest during…
Iranian director Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk seems likely to be the most important film to screen at the 2025…
“Baahubali!” The name rings out like music. Maybe you’ve heard it before, or maybe you haven’t, but the song sounds sweet just the same. S.S.…
On its face, the concept of writer-director Nia DaCosta’s Hedda sounds perilously, excitingly ambitious: DaCosta has adapted Henrik Ibsen’s venerated drama of psychological realism Hedda…
In the television series Dexter, our eponymous antagonist finds himself gifted, or cursed, with an insatiable urge to kill. Although he grows up under the…
An older couple congratulates producer Georges de Beauregard on the success of his magnificent new film — politely interrupting young Jean-Luc Godard, who has been…
Justin Lin, once at the helm of the Fast & Furious franchise — including entries four through six, as well as two and nine —…
Karim Leklou has a fascinating face, a seemingly unremarkable assemblage of features that acts like a blank slate; it’s a Kuleshov-effect visage. Director Clément Cogitore…
“Isn’t it obvious?” The question, volleyed by a PHD student at her trusted mentor, hangs in the air of a darkly lit stairwell as the…
Fire of Wind is the surreal debut feature from Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus, which opens presumably in the present, as workers pick grapes in the…
Jan Komasa’s Anniversary is an ungainly thing, a handsomely mounted prestige drama that appears at first to be a kind of “how we live now”…
Perhaps more well-known as a former Cahiers du Cinéma critic and the frequent co-screenwriter with the likes of Jacques Rivette, André Techiné, and Chantal Akerman,…
“If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.” — Job 14:14…
Radu Jude is aiming for nothing less than the grand finale of vampire movies with his Dracula, and as a Romanian, why shouldn’t he lay…
Because all this writer knew about Wind, Talk to Me entering its screening had come from a couple of synoptical lines that mentioned a “family”…
The makers of The Perfect Neighbor, which is largely composed of police bodycam and dashcam footage, decided that it was necessary to include a recording…
There are movies we find undoubtedly bad — movies that get us worked up, that offend us, that ruin our day — but that at…
While Taiwanese arthouse films have been regulars on the international festival circuit since the breakthroughs of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, and the rest of the…
Desolate, grim, and hopelessly introverted, The Boss’s album Nebraska captures a slice of America that’s as caustic and fresh today as it was in 1981.…