Vignettes depicting a young girl playing the piano on a darkened concert stage come and go throughout Boudewijn Koole's Disappearance. They provide bookends to ...
Frederick Wiseman’s films are often filled with moments that subtly and unexpectedly jolt viewers who think they know what they’re in for. In Ex Libris, in whic...
Gaining notoriety in 1981 when he murdered and ate a Dutch woman in Paris, Issei Sagawa has earned the ghastly label of the world’s most famous cannibal, a titl...
It’s easy to imagine the “old-school” Bruno Dumont Joan of Arc film; faith, martyrdom, and the landscape of the French countryside intermingling to a wrenching ...
For a directorial debut, it’s unfortunate Brie Larson didn’t pick a more stand-out script. Unicorn Store, with its poorly realized central MacGuffin, is about a...
In the Taliban-controlled Afghan city of Kabul, Nora Twomey's debut film as sole director (she co-helmed Oscar nominee The Secret of Kells) depicts an eleven-ye...
Capturing the complexity of abuse is tough to accomplish when mainstream audiences clamor for black and white delineations between predator and prey. Some go th...
Teenage Bea (Charlotte Salisbury) is in desperate need of an escape from her mundane, isolated life. We can assume Toronto's big city living isn't yet something...
If you've ever watched season three of Prison Break and wondered what was going on with Sona's weird open air slum-like community barely watched by guards, know...
When a German drifter walks into the quaint Luxembourg village of Schandelsmillen with a scruffy beard, bag full of money, and stoically gruff attitude, we wond...