By Mark Asch
An Iranian judge appointed to Tehran's Revolutionary Court grapples with dissent both at work and at home in Mohammad Rasoulof’s politically charged thriller.
Two sisters share an unshakable bond in Ariane Labed's uniquely strange feature debut.
Noémie Merlant's sophomore feature, co-written by Celine Sciamma, is a riotous black comedy set on the hottest day of the year in Marseilles.
An archetypal good girl meets a boy from the wrong side of the tracks in Gilles Lellouche's sweeping melodrama.
A young enforcer for a Brazilian gangster finds himself hiding out at a sleazy sex hotel in Karim Aïnouz's neo-noir.
By Jenna Mahale
Payal Kapadia's first fiction feature is a gorgeous romance, concerning the lives of two contrasting nurses in present-day Mumbai.
Ben Whishaw rises to the occasion of essaying the poet, provocateur and political dissident Eduard Limonov.
A visually ravishing if emotionally and thematically opaque travelogue is the latest from Portuguese maestro, Miguel Gomes.
Oliver Stone's portrait of Brazil's beloved president sadly fails to really capture what it is that makes Lula da Silva such a galvanising political force.
By Mark Asch
Paolo Sorrentino, Italy's lustiest working filmmaker, spins a tedious yarn about one woman's otherworldly beauty.
A young exotic dancer shacks up with the son of a Russian billionaire, much to the despair of his parents, in Sean Baker's latest down-and-dirty dramedy.
By Mark Asch
Ali Abbasi's attempted takedown of America's previous (and perhaps next) President of the United States, charting his early years under the mentorship of Roy Cohn, lacks the killer instinct.
The clashing cultures of Canada and Iran are fused in Matthew Rankin’s dryly comic follow-up to The Twentieth Century.
David Cronenberg’s melancholy exploration of how we retain our connection with the dead makes for one of his most beautiful love stories.
India Donaldson's feature debut is a naturalistic portrait of the tensions between young women and their fathers as a teenager takes a hiking trip with her dad and his best friend.
A fading star signs up for a strange medical procedure in Coralie Fargeat's vacuous attempt at a Hollywood body horror.
A large Italian-American family gather for the holidays in Tyler Taormina's freewheeling festive feature.
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