Film
Ed Perkins’s documentary finds a fascinating story in America’s 2016 creepy-clown craze, then buries it beneath sweeping analogies and frantic editing.
The provocative 1971 study of politics, religion, and sex in medieval France is back on the big screen—with its long-censored footage reinstated.
Nathan Fielder’s “You Can See Everything” turns the Theranos saga into a revelatory, Philip K. Dickian inquiry into artifice, identity, and truth.
Two compelling documentaries at the Boston Palestine Film Festival trace Edward Said’s intellectual awakening and the unfinished search for justice for Alex Odeh.
Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner asks whether understanding others requires seeing their side—or questioning our own.
Asio Liu’s documentary uncovers the forgotten history of unlisted Vietnamese “boat people” refugee camps in the Penghu Islands in the Taiwan Strait following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
Mikey Madison shines as whistleblower Frances Haugen, but Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook drama preaches more than it provokes.
Dave Boyle’s atmospheric ghost story raises intriguing questions about sisterhood and the afterlife, then buries them beneath slasher-film carnage.
Stillz’s “Barrio Triste” transforms the dangers of life in Medellín into a haunting journey through cosmic horror, media distrust, and adolescent fear.
Across two October weekends at the Brattle, the expanded 27-film series offers Boston audiences early looks at new work by Lee Chang-dong, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Martin McDonagh, Pedro Almodóvar, and more.
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