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,…
Mothering Sunday fills its frames with striking images and gorgeously appointed spaces to the point of mind-numbing banality. There’s a certain kind of film, one that…
7 Days is a high-concept rom-com that ends up feeling defanged by narrative missteps and inconsistent chemistry. Karan Soni and Geraldine Viswanathan star in 7 Days,…
A smoothly stitched assemblage of narrative and documentary modes, Wood and Water rides a sedate wavelength to effortless but earned poignancy. The most endearing moments of Jonas…
Întregalde is a humble, human-scaled story expertly told and sure to be one of the best films of the year. Radu Muntean might not be as well…
By all accounts, Jane by Charlotte seems to be a therapeutic exercise, but for outside viewers, it’s a languidly paced and essentially shapeless film. Released in…