The Dardennes maintain a distance from Ahmed as a way of celebrating their refusal to reduce him to any easy psychological bullet points.
Arnaud Desplechin evinces a glancing touch with showing how social tension and need inform law and crime.
A wonderful high concept is compromised for another story of lonely people learning to connect.
Kôji Fukada adores stray textures that stick in the proverbial throat and free-associatively affirm his characters’ rootlessness.
The tactility of earlier Hirokazu Kore-eda imagery has been traded for a softer, more luscious, nevertheless melancholic dream world.
Throughout, artists intermingle in scenes that have been rendered with an Altman-esque sense of personal panorama.
The film is so clichéd and scattershot as to make Copycat look like Peeping Tom by comparison.
With this extraordinary transfer, Criterion honors the profound hothouse intensity of Spike Lee’s greatest film.
The show’s second season reveals the intricate intersections between personal and political neuroses.
Gavin Hood wrings suspense out of the parsing of the nuances of evidence and the tapping of mysterious contacts.
The film can be moving, but its subject matter deserves more than art-house irresolution.
The film is about a mystery that isn’t solved, and how that inconclusiveness spotlights the insidious functions of society.
This release will ensure that Alice, Sweet Alice finds its rightful place in the horror film canon.
Criterion has brought to vivid life the darkness of Pakula’s seminal detective thriller.
Even the most casual exchanges at the festival ended with some variation of a sentiment that arose as a mantra: “It’s complicated.”
Rich in intimate detail, the film attains a more epic power as it burrows deeper into the effects of China’s one-child policy.
The filmmaker discusses his latest, and his antipathy toward the mass machine of modern pop culture.
This lasting work of existential horror has been given an audio commentary that serves as a veritable seminar on British cinema.
Maron discusses modern media discourse, the communicative bridge linking his acting with his podcast, and how he likes to be directed.
Bell proves uncannily adept at capturing moments that seem to encapsulate a subject’s entire emotional temperature.