‘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…
‘Cantona’ Review: A Nostalgia-Inducing Eric Cantona Doc
Football superstar Eric Cantona, the poetic yet pugilistic French striker who played best for English club Manchester United…
‘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…
‘Tangles’ Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Leads Animated Look at Dementia
Dementia has been palpably rendered on film a number of times this century, in varying tones and cadences.…
‘Nagi Notes’ Review: Koji Fukada’s Gentle Study of Art and Fellowship
Nagi Notes, writer-director Koji Fukada’s latest, offers a thoughtfully modulated tribute to the communal coziness, haphazard beauty and…
‘Ashes’ Review: Diego Luna’s Disjointed Mexican Immigrant Drama
Diego Luna got his feet wet as a director with the promising 2011 debut, Abel, a slight but disarming…