A triptych of interconnected stories form Evolution, which begins at the end of the liberation of Auschwitz, in 1945, skips forward to an apartment in Budapest...
Whatever else you might want to say about Flag Day, there’s no denying it’s a personal piece of filmmaking, a large factor in its actor-director’s perennial pr...
The MIT Press describes Didier Eribon's book Returning to Reims as "a memoir and meditation on individual and class identity, and the forces that keep us locke...
Xue Ming (Eddie Peng) is in jail when we meet him. He's talking about the boredom of living the same day repeatedly while thinking about how he got there. Deci...
The premise of After Yang might require a mild digestif. A work of speculative science fiction from the video-essayist-turned-director kogonada, it concerns th...
Many of the best qualities of early and late Verhoeven combine in Benedetta, a tale of sex, blood, and sacrilege in 17th-century Italy. Based on the American h...
There’s a bravura scene in Joachim Trier’s funny, sexy, and intelligent new rom-com The Worst Person in the World where time stops dead. Its millennial protago...
At the end of The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg filmed a film in the process of being made. She returns with The Souvenir Part II, a film all about filmmaking and its ...
In Chad, whose two main languages are Arabic and French, "lingui" is a distinct term meaning a "bond or connection"; the film’s alternate title gives it a more...
All relationships are to some extent transactional, but none more than that between employer and employee. One provides capital, the other labor. This dynamic ...
