Master Gardener
A relatively clunky and implausible character study about a troubled man attempting to atone for his past deeds is served up with mixed results in Paul Schrader's Master Gardner. Channeling [...]
Monica
Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro revisits the central themes of alienation, identity, and family that were found in his first two films, Medas (2013) and Hannah (2017), to even greater impact [...]
Fool’s Paradise
Hollywood is certainly a hollow place, an industry that chews actors and celebrities right up only to spit them right out, as the old cliche goes. By holding the industry [...]
Chile ’76
A story of paranoia and authoritarian government in 1976 Santiago that advances into an intelligent political thriller, Chile '76 is the latest film from Chilean filmmaker Manuela Martelli. It boasts [...]
The Eight Mountains
Belgian filmmaker Felix van Groeningen makes another film outside of his homeland but returns to his smaller-scale emotional dramas like The Broken Circle Breakdown with The Eight Mountains, a long [...]
Carmen
With another foray of a known artist embarking on film directing, French dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied brings his passions to the big screen in a singularly artful and highly [...]
Sisu
After making a splash with genre lovers and horror fans with audacious humor and thrills with Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale and Big Game, Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Herlander delivers his [...]
Polite Society
A British-Pakistani teenage girl fights for her dreams as a stunt woman as well as her older sister's dreams of becoming an artist in Polite Society, a spectacular and hilarious [...]
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Adapting older source material to the screen with charming and honest effect, filmmaker Kelly Fremon Craig's sophomore feature, Are You There God? It's Me, Marget, delivers a poignant portrait of [...]
R.M.N.
After exploring the horrors of the final days of the Nicolae Ceaușescu era where women's reproductive rights were stripped away in his 2007 masterpiece 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 [...]