Review: Renoir

A long string of picnics, portrait sessions, elaborate dinners, and countryside rituals, filtered through a svelte aesthetic pleasantness that ultimately corrodes its larger interests.

Review: Our School

Common stereotypes about the Roma (gypsy) character—spunky, irate, crass—are put to the test in Mona Nicoara’s Our School.

Review: Café de Flore

The sometimes cloying formalist whimsy of Jean-Pierre Jeunet seems admirably up-front compared to Jean-Marc Vallée’s tactile, supposedly realistic whimsy.

Review: Tai Chi Zero

The film invites comparison to Stephen Chow’s work, but Stephen Fung and his crew have no interest in Chow’s meticulous choreography or eye for stark composition.

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