by Mark Asch
A corrupt cop chases two serial killers through Tokyo’s underworld in Takashi Miike’s contribution to the Bad Lieutenant series.
An impressive showcase for Jesse Eisenberg’s musical theatre hobby, but this is Julianne Moore’s movie all the way.
The passion project that Zack Snyder has spent the last two decades developing is an unforgivably dreadful, turgid slog.
Chris Rock’s latest feature leans hard on Rosalind Eleazar’s lead performance as a fading actress to carry a plot that rarely rises to meet her.
Anna Biller’s long-awaited follow-up to her cult classic The Love Witch adapts the famous Japanese ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan for 14th century England.
When Taron Egerton’s nice guy becomes irresistible overnight, Jonathan Schey’s takedown of performative allyship becomes a performance of its own.
Valeska Grisebach returns with a magnificent drama in which a Bulgarian archaeologist becomes mixed up in criminal dealings on the Turkish-Greek border.
Documentarians Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter follow a woman attempting to enter her refurbished 1970 Volkswagen Beetle in a drag race.
A pair of enterprising minors come up with a get-rich-quick scheme in Karim Lakzadeh’s inventive eccentric dramedy.
French filmmaker Paul Nouhet recreates a teenage skating trip in his nostalgic personal drama.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa adapts Honobu Yonezawa’s novel, about a murder that takes place within the walls of a barricaded castle.
A successful businessman contends with the war in Ukraine and his wife’s infidelity in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s stern drama.
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