By Mark Asch
Reuniting with Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mike Leigh makes a welcome return to contemporary filmmaking with a searing portrait of a woman on the brink.
By Mark Asch
John Crowley delivers a millennial cancer weepie with two game leads in Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield.
Sarah Friedland's feature debut is a stunning, sensory-forward portrait of a woman with dementia adapting to life in an assisted living facility.
Dea Kulumbegashvili's stark Georgian drama follows an obstetrician who moonlights as an abortionist, as she is accused of interfering with her patients.
By Luke Hicks
Kevin Costner deftly keeps the wheels turning on his hyper ambitious four-part western saga, despite a lukewarm reception and scrapped release.
Dag Johan Haugerud's exploration of human desire is a sadly all too sterile affair.
By Mark Asch
Joshua Oppenheimer returns with an ambitious, post-apocalyptic musical whose thematic flights of fancy are always just a little too strident.
The final chapter in Wang Bing's epic trilogy examines love old and new in China's Zhili province.
An expansive, 50-film chronology looking back at the history of films directed by female actors.
In the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, gender proves more fluid and arbitrary than in much of contemporary cinema.
By Luke Hicks
Alex Ross Perry creates a unique docu-fiction about cult indie band Pavement, blurring the lines between real and fake to excellent comedic effect.
Todd Phillips recruits Lady Gaga to his circus act as Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the crime-committing clown about town in this shockingly amateur musical effort.
Vincent Lindon stars as a widower trying to steer his young song away from the far right in the Coulin Sisters' frustrating drama.
Luca Guadagnino heads on down to Mexico with Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in his freewheeling take on William S. Burroughs' eponymous novel.
Bending the boundaries of documentary and sci-fi, Asif Kapadia presents an urgent message about the current state of the world, and where we might be headed, with help from Samantha Morton.
Athina Rachel Tsangari's solemn adaptation of Jim Crace's historical novel concentrates on the changing face of a Scottish farming village as the agricultural revolution begins.
Walter Salles returns to narrative filmmaking with a sensitive depiction of the forced disappearance of former congressman Rubens Paiva, and the devastation his family faced.
Pedro Almodóvar makes his English-language feature debut with an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez's What Are You Going Through, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as old friends who reunite in a time of crisis.
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