It is difficult to equitably handle and deal with particular subject matter in a film without feeling exploitative. Yet David Pablos has managed to walk this fi...
Paolo Sorrentino’s visual prowess is almost always let down by his scriptwriting. That’s why his only feature based on a real-life story, Il Divo (winner of the...
With each film, Denis Villeneuve proves his talent for crafting extremely effective visceral spectacles, ensnaring the viewer through expert engineering of mood...
Joachim Trier’s previous features, his excellent debut Reprise and its near-perfect successor Oslo, August 31st, both co-written with Eskil Vogt, pulled off the...
Following his 2010 debut, Summerland, Rams marks the second feature film from Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson. Premiering as part of Cannes' Un Certain Reg...
There is something to be said about the satisfying catharsis from a pure melodrama -- a movie that is so earnest and excessive in service to its genre conventio...
Jeremy Saulnier’s indie hit Blue Ruin, which won the FIPRESCI prize at the 2013 Directors' Fortnight and went on to enjoy a critically lauded international run,...
To be an actress and land a leading role in a Todd Haynes film must be a dream come true. With Safe, Far From Heaven, and his five-part miniseries Mildred Pierc...
Festival programming is more often than not fraught with ulterior considerations. Which is why so much is being read into symbolic placements such as the openin...
László Nemes' prodigious debut feature, Son of Saul, inhabits what Primo Levi called “The Gray Zone” in his essay of the same name: the reality of the Sonderkom...
