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 [...]
Godland
Austere and magnificently bold, Godland marks a continuation of Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason's study of troubled masculinity within severely harsh environments. Heretofore his first feature Winter's Brother had a setting [...]
Return to Seoul
Cambodian French filmmaker Davy Chou (Diamond Island) manages to pull off a deeply spirited character study and existential journey with Return to Seoul, a moody and convulsively lyrical yarn about [...]
Living
Remakes are a film tradition almost as old as filmmaking itself, with Georges Melies remaking a Lumiere brothers short, both made in 1896. While it would seem most worthwhile to [...]
Avatar: The Way of Water
It’s been exhaustively questioned as to whether James Cameron’s Avatar, the highest grossing film of all time, originally unseating Cameron’s own Titanic, has sustained its influence on pop culture as [...]
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, seasoned documentary filmmaker and Academy Award winner Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) delivers her most wrenching film yet, a galvanizing, deeply powerful documentary about photographer [...]
EO
While Jerzy Skoimowski's EO is being billed and labeled as "a modern-day retelling of Robert Bresson's Au Hazard Balthazar," the film stands on its own as a modern update that [...]
The Banshees of Inisherin
In a return to his roots, renowned British-Irish playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh does wonders in The Banshees of Inisherin. Marking his first film in the U.K. with an original [...]
Tár
Todd Field's high-minded and sophisticated mastery carries on with his third feature film, Tár, a dense and deeply layered saga that has a lot to say about artistry, cancel culture, [...]
Triangle of Sadness
Utilizing rich ideas on class warfare with razor-sharp satire, a brilliantly written script, and stellar visuals, Triangle of Sadness captures the absurdist spirit of Luis Bunuel's The Discreet Charm of [...]