Review: Last Knights

A macho celebration of fighting for “freedom” because someone else told you to, devoid of any acknowledgement of the irony of that ideology.

Review: Rosewater

It shrugs off the bigger questions about Iranian politics its first half appears to raise, falling back instead on a gestalt of the eternal, Kafkaesque regime, wherever the viewer may find it.

Review: Maryam

Director Ramin Serry does wonders with evocative archival footage and the evolving emotional intensity between Maryam and her mother.