In Burger’s tender and surprisingly funny third feature, language is forever foreign.
With his latest, Jude continues following intuition and putting ideas into immediate action.
Field’s first film in nearly two decades can’t quite decide on whether Tár’s comeuppance is a grand tragedy or a cosmic joke.
The film’s rote action-movie plotting is calibrated in a ponderously straight-faced way so as to give it some semblance of gravity.
With great clarity, the film conveys how discipline can be directed both inward and outward.
The episode eerily and effectively depicts how stories can be orchestrated and flipped on a dime.
By episode’s end, most of the show’s key characters have re-invested in the things that most matter to them.
Christian Petzold’s meditation on individual and cinematic ouroboros lands on Blu-ray with a masterful transfer from the Criterion Collection.
The actress discusses the complexities of her performance, working with Petzold, and her recent role on Homeland.
Homeland falters when it focuses on the contrivances of its big-picture plotting, but they lead “New Normal” to a powerful ending.
Homeland is too wrapped up in its own allure to deliver on the story it started to tell in previous weeks.
Like the excellent fourth season of Homeland, season five suggests a politically wise and deeply skeptical update of John le Carré‘s very best spy-centric work.
Phoenix never luxuriates in all this film history, but rather channels the artifice and affect it embodies into new insights.
A sense of loss, in love and war alike, permeates the episode.
Phoenix perpetuates one of the best contemporary director-actor collaborations.
Anton Corbijn constructs a stifling world of shadowy surveillance and intersecting national interests.
Nailing the feel of a place through precise lighting isn’t a problem for South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo.
Films about the not-so-great outdoors pervade this year’s festival.
Christian Petzold’s close-to-the-vest approach fits in the context of a narrative that takes place in 1980 East Germany
Most compelling in Barbara, Christian Petzold’s latest, is the way the filmmaker adeptly conducts his tides of Cold War paranoia.