Óliver Laxe’s directorial control denies comfort and bends both characters and viewers to ordeals that feel less staged than inescapable.
Crime 101 tells a very familiar story, but proves that things that aren’t broken don’t need to be fixed.
Writer-director Emerald Fennell magnifies the themes of sex, obsession and destructive love in this passionate but surprisingly hollow romantic drama.
What distinguishes Birds of War from many documentaries about Syria is its refusal to separate the political from the personal.
Josephine is a film that demands empathy and rewards the viewer with a profound understanding of the resilience of children and the limitations of the people who protect them.
The documentary closes on a quietly devastating observation. Immigration policy, for all its bureaucratic language, ultimately communicates something far more intimate.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon reunite in this thrilling mix of chamber drama-type of whodunit with a dash of Joe Carnahan’s signature gritty action/cop thriller mode.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple excels in its ability to create such a thought-provoking character study against a fearful, chaotic and downright crazy backdrop.
What distinguishes I, Poppy from many contemporary documentaries on agrarian distress is its refusal to offer a final reckoning or closure.
Director and co-writer Tom Gormican takes a big swing by eschewing the typical remake
route in favor of something meta and funny for a change.