Peter Keough
Dave Boyle’s atmospheric ghost story raises intriguing questions about sisterhood and the afterlife, then buries them beneath slasher-film carnage.
The festival’s strongest films find courage, comedy, and unexpected forms of kinship amid political repression, mortality, war, and the complications of family.
In films about Franco’s disappeared, AI companions, Iranian exile, and an Indian South African family’s buried history, the Camden International Film Festival finds digital—and analog—means of restoring bonds fractured by violence, loss, and time.
Orlando von Einsiedel’s documentary follows an Indian portrait artist’s extraordinary bicycle journey from Delhi to Sweden—and the improbable love story that inspired it.
Director Rafael Manuel’s dazzling debut turns a fantastical Philippine golf resort into a miniature world of caste, exploitation, and resistance.
Not much bang and plenty of whimper
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa trades spectacle for suspense in a period thriller about honor, hostage, and haiku.
In her wry, incisive documentary, filmmaker Penny Lane turns an owl’s rise and fall into an unusually moving inquiry into animal sentience, urban spectacle, and the cost of liberation.
Documentarian Ross McElwee’s most profound film folds four decades of self-portraiture into a threnody for his son—and a meditation on memory, guilt, and cinema’s solace.
Director Robb Moss’s latest revisits countercultural lives in later years, while “Amazing Live Sea Monkeys” probes a bizarre empire shadowed by exploitation and extremism.
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