Bi Gan's third feature is an epic in every sense of the word, taking viewers on a sprawling odyssey through cinema.
An art theft spells disaster for Josh O'Connor in Kelly Reichardt's excellent Vietnam-era heist dramedy.
Sebastián Lelio's musical take on Chile's MeToo movement is a misjudged gum-smacking mess.
The second instalment of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s lesbian genre film trilogy manages to just about snag a passing grade.
By Mark Asch
Belgium’s Dardenne brothers return with a typically emotive film about a group of very young women dealing with the dramas of childbirth.
Love and humour gives way to bitterness and rancour in this slick and involving portrait of an Iranian family in turmoil from Saeed Roustaee.
A young J-pop singer must choose between love and stardom in Koji Fukada's gentle romantic drama.
This semiautobiographical drama from Golden Bear-winner Carla Simón makes for a heartfelt exploration on the joys and pains of extended family.
By Mark Asch
Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis deliver a spirited western ballad about a young woman seeking freedom and her daring lover.
A brilliant young academic struggles to come to terms with the aftermath of a sexual assault in Eva Victor's moving dramedy.
Renate Reinsve plays an actress struggling with the sudden return of her estranged father in Joachim Trier's latest drama.
Two musicians set out to record the folk songs of rural America in Oliver Hermanus' restrained but affecting drama.
By Mark Asch
Russian exile filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov selects Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death“ as the subject of the first film made in his new home, Germany.
Iranian director Jafar Panahi delivers a Palme-ready thriller exploring the high price of revenge on a potentially evil man.
June Squibb plays a spirited nonagenarian who moves back to New York from Florida in Scarlett Johansson's underwhelmed directorial debut.
Arab and Tarzan Nasser's thriller transports us to 2007, where two friends running a drug dealing business out of a falafel cart soon come into conflict with a corrupt police officer.
Jodie Foster stars as a psychiatrist trying to solve a potential murder in Rebecca Zlotowski's underwhelming drama.
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