By Mark Asch
Josh O’Connor breaks out his halting Italian as a grave-robbing rascal in Alice Rohrwacher’s divine exploration of time, history and memory.
By Mark Asch
Italian veteran Marco Bellocchio’s adaptation of David Kertzer’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara is an occasionally enthralling, yet often staid and repetitive affair.
French provocateur Catherine Breillat returns with strange film about a transgressive sexual relationship between a middle-aged lawyer and her teenage stepson.
Virginie Efira delivers a typically committed performance opposite young breakout star Félix Lefebvre in this debut fiction from Delphine Deloget.
Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel play late 19th century gourmands in Tran Ahn Hung’s scintillating epic of proto-foodie passions.
The long-awaited return of Spanish filmmaker Victor Erice is a slow-burn marvel which climaxes in a sequence of overwhelming profundity and mystery.
Karim Aïnouz's English language debut is a frustratingly buttoned-up take on the life of Henry VIII's final wife, Catherine Parr.
Joanna Arnow's feature debut is a blisteringly funny take on millennial malaise and the search for reciprocal companionship.
Wes Anderson returns with one of his most dazzling, rich and playfully self-reflexive films to date, brought to eye-popping life by an all-timer ensemble.
Jessica Hausner's drama about a teacher who begins a troubling diet club at an elite high school is a poorly-judged slog to sit through.
Another gorgeous tragicomic farce from Finnish maestro Aki Kaurismäki, a heartfelt cinephile ode to the possibility of love among the working classes.
A woman has to stand trial after her husband dies in suspicious circumstances in Justine Triet's compelling courtroom drama.
A young couple's romance threatens a drought-stricken village in Ramata-Toulaye Sy's stirring debut.
Todd Haynes' deliciously dark melodrama sees Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman go head-to-head as a housewife and the woman tasked with playing her in a film.
Three young adults navigate the intricacies of romance in a snowy city in Northern China in Anthony Chen's latest drama.
By Mark Asch
A filmmaker in crisis finds inspiration in the mountains in Michel Gondry's first film in eight years.
The latest documentary from Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania centers a quartet of young women whose lived are changed forever when two of them join ISIS.
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