Akira Nagai’s Suzuki=Bakudan is a police procedural in which nearly every consequential movement begins with a man sitting at a table. Tagosaku Suzuki (Jiro Sato),…
Thomas Kail’s live-action Moana retains the 2016 animated film’s narrative and musical architecture so faithfully that the change of medium amounts largely to a substitution…
In Los Vampires, director Craig Mitchell draws on the parallel production of Universal’s two 1931 Dracula films, then gradually lets that industrial history go magnificently…
At the small airport in Karatas, Bek (Berik Aitzhanov) arrives dressed for another climate. Greasy hair hangs around his untrimmed beard, and a heavy fur…
Fujiko (Yuki Katayama) sells insurance to a cook by making her life part of the policy. She looks at her prospective client, adopts a hangdog…
Released in 1978 in what was then Czechoslovakia, Beauty and the Beast by director Juraj Herz follows a young woman who, to save her father,…