By Jack King
David France’s vital documentary interrogates the ongoing queer genocide in the Russian republic.
An ancient myth underpins German director Christian Petzold’s wishy-washy romantic drama.
There’s shades of John Cassavetes in Canadian writer/director Kazik Radwanski’s elevated character study.
By Lou Thomas
Yoon Sung-hyun offers a fatalistic glimpse of a near-future South Korea in this anxiety-inducing crime thriller.
Kelly Reichardt trains her meticulous eye on 1820s Oregon in this sublime companion piece to 2006’s Old Joy.
Riz Ahmed plays an ambitious rapper in director Bassam Tariq’s thumping drama.
By Lou Thomas
Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver star in this understated literary drama, based on Joanna Rakoff’s memoir.
They’ll be joined by Abel Ferrara and Tsai Ming-liang when the festival kicks off in February.
Highlights from across this year’s Berlinale, including a hallucinatory war thriller and a metaphysical farce.
By Ian Mantgani
The first lady of French cinema offers a final, typically fascinating self-portrait.
By Ian Mantgani
Sydney Pollack’s long-lost concert doc shows the Queen of Soul at the height of her pop fame.
By Ella Kemp
This portrait of the work of film critic Pauline Kael is a perfect reminder of why movies matter.
By Ian Mantgani
Diane Kruger and Martin Freeman star in this intriguing tale of espionage in modern-day Tehran.
By Ian Mantgani
Charles Ferguson’s mammoth chronicle of President Nixon’s downfall manages to be at once too detailed and too superficial.
By Ian Mantgani
Agnieszka Holland’s biopic of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones is one of the most powerful films at this year’s Berlinale.
By Ian Mantgani
American filmmaker Dan Sallitt delivers a delicate, subtly devastating portrait of friendship and depression.
By Lou Thomas
Casey Affleck directs this father-daughter survival drama set in a world without women.
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