Writer/director Igor Drljaca takes us on a contemplative tour through four towns in Bosnia-Herzegovinia with his documentary The Stone Speakers. We never hear h...
The Berlin film festival’s brochure notes for Angela Schanelec’s new puzzler of a movie map out some of the action: a 13-year-old boy who, after having gone mis...
Boxing became the way two fathers in Chicago could keep their sons off the streets. Kenneth Sims Sr. was a brawler back in the day before turning his passion in...
Director Sofia Bohdanowicz found a series of letters written between 1957 and 1964 by her great-grandmother Zofia Bohdanowiczowa (a poet) to the Nobel Prize-nom...
I have no idea what's happening inside Santiago Loza's Brief Story from the Green Planet. This quest on behalf of three outcast best friends since childhood to ...
In the new feature film The Plagiarists a young, white, highly educated couple on their way home from a weekend getaway have car trouble and find themselves str...
Where political shenanigans go, spy thrillers often follow. In Yuval Adler’s film, unspooling out of competition at the Berlinale, Iran’s recent nuclear weapons...
Fatih Akin’s latest movie is a fetid stain on the CV of a good filmmaker. Akin has made the true story of a repulsive, grotesque serial killer into a repulsive,...
You don't have to look much further than the definition of the title to understand writer/director Helvécio Marins Jr.'s goals with Querência. Its English trans...
There is an uncomfortable, universal wound being picked at in Dan Sallitt's latest film, regardless of which of its characters the viewer relates to more. The q...
