It’s easy to be lulled by the hum of rolling highways and pleasant conversation; they abound in Sebastian Brameshuber’s new film, London, which follows Bobby…
About a million Russians have left their country since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, fleeing the draft and/or political repercussions for dissent.…
Burak Çevik’s films often use a narrative framework as a jumping-off point for formal experimentation. This is perhaps best seen in his 2019 feature Belonging,…
Amit Dutta’s fluid conception of art forms extends to the way he conceives of artists as well. Not bound by standardized, snobbish definitions that often…
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at 2026’s Sundance Film Festival, To Hold a Mountain, from directors Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić, holds its observational…
Alain Gomis’ new film achieves something both impressive and paradoxical. It is simultaneously intimate and panoramic. Dao is built around two very large family gatherings,…
Rithy Panh, the relentless chronicler of the atrocities perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge, shifts his attention to another kind of destruction in his latest film,…
Sixto Muñoz lives alone, but he likes to visit town to have a few beers (which his friends are happy to buy for him) and…
At the center of Justin Jinsoo Kim’s And the Moon Sets Over the Temple That Was lies an impulse to excavate the past through memory.…
Although the draft was last sprung more than five decades ago, America’s fortunate sons have since fathered their own lucky offspring. Called to arms out…
Sometimes the footage is the thing. Nova ’78 represents the completion of an observational documentary by the late Beat-adjacent filmmaker Howard Brookner, perhaps best known…
Suburbia, There and Back is a landscape film set in the area around Paris, and eventually in the city itself. With static shots ranging from…
At first glance, Dominik Moll’s Case 137 looks a lot like his last film, the César-winning The Night of the 12th. That film was a…
A suspicious disappearance of a teenage girl in a small town on the Côte d’Azur sends a young woman searching and spiraling in the Cartesian…
Valerie Donzelli’s At Work has proven divisive since its festival premiere last year; a film about an artist’s existential ennui while searching for his authentic…
Robert Zucchini — with a nom de plume that simultaneously signifies an Italian origin and mitigates any self-seriousness — loves Victor Hugo. He’s a writer,…
When Chinese mixed media artist Zhou Tao had his critical breakout with The Periphery of the Base in 2024, it seemed like he had conjured…
James Benning is a master of moments. Over a career that spans five decades and twice as many modal deviations, Benning abstracts the American Problem…
15 years after the political uprising in Thailand by the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (also known as the Red Shirts), during which more…
Howard Wiseman’s self-described “quasi-history” of dark age Britain, Then Arthur Fought: The Matter of Britain, is an account of the historical material — matières, as…
Succeeding the opening text of Amilcar is a close-up on a man’s face depicted in ultra-slow speed, soon revealed as interview footage, amidst a disorienting…