Nous Cutting across Paris from the north to the south, the RER B is a commuter rail that shuttles passengers to and from the city…
The Orphanage can be flat and predictable for stretches, but it also tilts its formalism toward a playful character enough to suggest Sadat is worth continuing…
Boss Level is dumb and familiar and, well, bad, but it also manages to inject enough consistent fun to keep it just barely afloat. Like an…
Lucky is a surprisingly substantive film, particularly given its slight runtime, but suffers from spoon-feeding viewers its messaging. A masked man breaks into the home of…
Drift Away’s opening is a three-tiered one; within not even the first five minutes, Xavier Beauvois simultaneously presents the relationship between local gendarme Laurent’s (Jérémie…
At this late stage in the coronavirus pandemic, it’s no surprise that the first of presumably plentiful documentaries devoted to the topic have begun to…
A straightforward romantic drama that gradually reveals itself to be about something else entirely, Copilot is a modest success for about half of its runtime.…
The Girl and the Spider Like their previous collaboration, 2013’s The Strange Little Cat, Ramon and Silvan Zürcher’s The Girl and the Spider is best…
Despite its credibility and collaborators, I Got a Story to Tell doesn’t bring much new insight or verve to this latest treatment of Biggie’s life and…
The Truffle Hunters is a considerably handsome film, but one unfortunately absent of much personality or character. The Truffle Hunters is a relatively modest festival contender,…
The Human Voice is a recent high water mark for Almodóvar, a masterful exercise in depicting both interior and exterior surfaces. In the late 1920s, the…
It seems nearly impossible that there’s anyone in the world who isn’t familiar with Tom and Jerry — or, at least, doesn’t recognize them. In…
Raya and the Last Dragon is beautifully animated and welcomingly eccentric, but also a little overly familiar. Much remains the same in Disney’s latest animated project,…
Taking new shape this year, the Berlinale kicks off today in its virtual version, running for the rest of this week before hibernating until June…
Otto Preminger’s career is frequently separated into two distinct halves — the early, studio-contracted work and his later films as a self-produced independent, tackling hot-button…
The World’s a Little Blurry has plenty for die-hards to like and is welcomingly relaxed, but ultimately remains a pro forma exercise with little to recommend…
Cherry is a cartoonish failure of imagination, technique, and performance. Joe and Anthony Russo, the producer/directors who found themselves at the helm of the biggest studio…
Always and Forever is stretched a little thin and relies on too much filler, but remains a charming teenage rom-com and gracefully ends the trilogy. In…
The Father can veer into indulgence, but largely works as a nuanced, compassionate portrait of aging’s ravages. Like the captain of his soul, Anthony — played…
Un film dramatique is a well-intentioned study, but falls into something of a paternalistic trap in presentation. In general, films about childhood, pedagogy and learning…