‘Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean’ Review: A Rich Tribute
Perhaps the defining paradox of visionary British film director David Lean’s life is the discordance between his professional…
‘Victorian Psycho’ Review: Maika Monroe Swaps Scream Queen for Villain
The 21st century has yielded no shortage of stylish horror marbled with devious veins of pitch-dark humor —…
‘Death Has No Master’ Review: Asia Argento in Limp Venezuelan Drama
Featuring powerfully atmospheric music and sound design, and a sense of tropical place so moistly palpable one might…
‘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,…
‘Her Private Hell’ Review: Nicolas Winding Refn’s Agonizing Return
Sometime after Drive, probably between Only God Forgives and The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn decided to make…
‘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.…
‘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…
‘Atonement’ Review’: Boyd Holbrook, Hiam Abbass in Reflection on War
A commonality among most American movies about Middle Eastern wars is their strict focus on U.S. soldiers —…
‘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…
‘Fatherland’ Review: Sandra Hüller in Masterly Pawel Pawlikowski Film
The Nobel-prize-winning novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) go on an unsentimental journey…