‘Red Rocks’ Review: Bruno Dumont’s French Riviera Arthouse Kids Flick
You can call French auteur Bruno Dumont many things: profound, pretentious, visionary, a master of rural poverty porn,…
‘Fjord’ Review: Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve in Parenting Hell
Cristian Mungiu’s films invariably deal with social, cultural and moral divisions, uneasy truths, ethical dilemmas and unjust compromises.…
‘Hope’ Review: Na Hong-jin’s Wildly Entertaining Korean Monster Epic
There’s a sly sight gag relatively early in Na Hong-jin’s blockbuster-in-the-making, Hope, in which the camera gazes over the…
‘Sheep in the Box’ Review: Hirokazu Koreeda’s Drippy Human-AI Drama
Hirokazu Koreeda brings his customary warmth and generosity of spirit to the seemingly cold presence of GenAI in…
‘Paper Tiger’ Review: Adam Driver in James Gray’s Bruising Drama
“Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.” It’s fitting…
‘Visitation’ Review: Volker Schlondorff’s Elegant Return
Adapted from Jenny Erpenbeck’s acclaimed novel Heimsuchung and directed by legendary auteur Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum), Visitation…
‘Clarissa’ Review: Sophie Okonedo in a Sharp Take on ‘Mrs. Dalloway’
With its stream-of-consciousness style and fragmented perspectives, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is a beguiling novel with understandably few…
‘Gentle Monster’ Review: Léa Seydoux in Unsettling Marie Kreutzer Film
Tackling a subject close to home for writer-director Marie Kreutzer, Gentle Monster examines the fallout when Philip Weiss…
‘Parallel Tales’ Review: Isabelle Huppert in Asghar Farhadi Drama
Countless exceptional films have been made in which voyeurism — whether practiced by the protagonist or the audience…