Review

The latest film by Lithuanian director Marija Kavtaradze, which deftly and compassionately examines intimacy and attraction, blossoms into a beautiful love affair. The tale revolves around Elena (Greta Grinevičiūtė), a…

For those of a certain age in Britain, Cate Blanchett has provided the most bizarre moment of this year's Cannes film festival. Her persona respectfully brings up the name of…

Nothing in "The Balconettes" quite matches the practically self-contained, minute-long short that starts actor-director Noémie Merlant's frantic, heatstruck genre mashup in terms of taut suspense or conceptual clarity. A middle-aged…

Nothing in "The Balconettes" quite matches the practically self-contained, minute-long short that starts actor-director Noémie Merlant's frantic, heatstruck genre mashup in terms of taut suspense or conceptual clarity. A middle-aged…

Although he didn't create the zombie movie, the late, great George A. Romero undoubtedly contributed to its rise to fame with his "Dead" series. The starting point was Romero's now-iconic…

"Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In," directed by Soi Cheang and set in Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City (which, until its demolition in 1993, was one of the planet's most…

In a touching coming-of-age drama about youth facing adulthood's challenges, Japanese director Hiroshi Okuyama's second feature "My Sunshine" is as charming and melancholic as listening to Claude Debussy's "Clair de…

No matter how awful your week is going, take a moment to be grateful that you aren't in the middle of a bloody conflict with a man going by the…

David Cronenberg has returned to his now-familiar Ballardian obsessions with his new picture, a deformed sphinx without a secret that is an eroticized necrophiliac rumination on grief, love, and loss.…

There's a sequence in "Misericordia" that happens an hour in that will likely leave viewers speechless. But all it is is a two-person conversation. That verbal exchange demonstrates Alain Guiraudie's…