Corneliu Porumboiu’s film is very much a genre exercise, and a particularly Soderberghian one at that.
László Nemes’s follow-up to Son of Saul simply feels like two films awkwardly affixed to one another.
A strong audio-visual transfer makes the long-awaited arrival of Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner to Blu-ray well worth the wait.
Graduation retains 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days’s thrilling pulse of morality itself racing to beat the clock.
There’s a lot of sexual violence in the film, but it scans as unimaginatively repulsive and blatantly misogynistic.
Cristian Mungiu’s film is more than just a cry of despair toward the hopelessness of life in modern-day Romania.
Cinephiles in sync with the film’s politics may still blanch at how snugly their interests are courted.
Crulic: The Path to Beyond is little more than a bunch of pretty pictures propping up Cladiu Crulic’s slow, inevitable death march.
A major film, and a troubling one, a key piece of the Romanian New Wave finally makes its way to home video.
Has the so-called Romanian New Wave slowed to a trickle?
Sergei Loznitsa seems to be trying to attack everyone and everything it can look at, which proves too much for one film.
Police, Adjective is really two movies, varying significantly in their degree of success.
Cristian Mungiu is the future, if your eyes will but listen.
This awards season may be the year of knocked-up chicks and orange tic-tacs.
Masters of horror should marvel at Cristian Mungiu’s canny deployment of red herrings