Fiddler’s Journey isn’t much more substantive than your average love letter doc, and suffers from an ill-conceived late-film detour. Daniel Raim’s chronicling of the pre-production and…
Los conductos is a disarmingly personal film that is also masterful in its understanding of the way artifice interacts with realism. Camilo Restrepo has made a…
The Earth is Blue As an Orange relies on an immediacy that only somewhat masks its flippant, fleeting nature. It’s difficult to approach a work that’s…
Pompo: the Cinéphile could do with being a bit thornier, but it’s nonetheless a film that understand the power of movies in a unique, appealing way.…
There’s nothing much profound going on in Anaïs in Love, but its languorous, late-summer tenor makes for a lightly pleasant watch. A warm, sandy romance…
Charlotte is another anonymous effort on the Holocaust film heap that has now idea what to do with Jewish pain. Éric Warin and Tahir Rana’s animated…
Stanleyville is a toothless comedy that fails to fill in the considerable gaps in its conceptual framework. Maxwell McCabe-Lokos’ Stanleyville confines itself to a single room,…
The Duke is an absurdist romp balanced by Michell’s trademark ease, and a fitting swan song for the director. As the final narrative feature from celebrated…
Real-life subtext melds effortlessly with easy, endearing comedy in Panah Panahi’s Hit the Road. Sam Levinson, Jaden Smith, Jake Gyllenhaal, Maya Hawke, and Bryce Dallas Howard:…
Sexual Drive draws the straightest possible line between food and sex, never striving for anything deeper or more creative than basic simile. For nearly as long…
If its title wasn’t a giveaway, Marvelous and the Black Hole is a quirk-heavy comedy that approaches authenticity in moments, only to retreat back into its…
You Won’t Be Alone is an emotional and aesthetic masterwork, and a stirring expression of the human condition. Goran Stolevski’s feature-length debut, You Won’t Be Alone,…
Paris, 13th District succeeds in communicating something distinctly, relatably human, even as it falters to present captivating drama. There’s something particularly soul-crushing about being lonely…
A deeply spiritual, even existential, odyssey that mingles numerous contradictory forces into a striking whole, The Tale of King Crab is certain to be remembered as…
Navalny is a valuable film in our age of geopolitical misinformation, but also skews toward hagiography and relies too heavily on an info-dump style format. Presumably…
Aline is an undeniably singular film, but its eccentricities are mostly gloss on an overly-familiar biopic template. The new musical drama Aline is officially described in…
Poppy Field carries the veneer of importance but isn’t much more than a series of lazy ironies, a shallow character study in need of a character.…
A-ha: the Movie is a pure trifle, not always substantial but capable of casting viewers back into a distinctly ’80s mood. Before childhood friends Magne…
Gagarine is a small film, but one impressive in the balance of wonder and stark melancholy it conjures. Against the harsh realities of time and…
Babi Yar. Context is another notable work from Loznitsa, one that represents an important act of remembrance while also remaining frustratingly vague and lacking in, ironically,…