The Incomer is about being isolated for so long that you forget how to want things.
Shaunak Sen’s documentary is both otherworldly and humanizing, as if it were bridging a gap between different forms of existence.
What lingers most readily from Amsterdam are the little privileged moments.
Last Flight Home is an anguished therapy session disguised as a meditation on life and death.
The art is both the focus of Kelly Reichardt’s personal new film but also adjacent to the larger exigencies of life.
The film doesn’t quite live up to its promising premise and handful of clever camera gimmicks.
Straining to be a YA spin on Trouble Every Day, Bones and All barely eclipses Twilight.
Till taps into a deeper well of emotions than most biopics.
With Descendant, filmmaker Margaret Brown finds poetry where most would see the opportunity for a polemic.
Like Rodrigues’s best work, the film never undersells the importance of brains being the most important sex organ.
Paul Mescal and Emily Watson discuss the specifically Irish textures of the film’s story.
When it decides to sober up, the film’s comedy lurches into awkward attempts at melancholy.
The festival’s 60th edition is, among other things, a celebration of cinema’s limitless capacity for renewal.
For Schrader, even a film called Master Gardener ultimately pivots on a man having to take out the macho trash.
Throughout the film, Citarella emphasizes the liberating quality of following the rabbit hole as deep as it goes.
There’s a propulsive, single-minded sense of purpose to the film’s commitment to gore.
In Claire Denis’s film, sex is the great equalizer, or at least the act that allows people to defer taking a firm moral or ethical stance.
With each new film, Hong’s work becomes more subtextual, more fraught, even funnier.
A Couple ultimately constitutes not so much a footnote to Wiseman’s storied career as a beguiling little doodle in its margins.
George Clooney’s and Julia Roberts’s undimmed charisma brings enough grace notes to Ticket to Paradise that you could easily be taken in by its low-stakes frivolity.
The festival provides a matchless opportunity to take the pulse of Poland’s present-day culture.