Film
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.
The Dardenne brothers’ latest film transforms a series of fragile stories about teenage motherhood into an unsentimental, deeply compassionate study of resilience.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s baffling, vibe‑driven film trades narrative for fetish—and asks whether you still care what the critics think.
A turn-of-the-century schoolteacher’s idealism collides with alpine tradition—and the land itself—in a beguiling, sensorially rich debut.
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.
The webslinger’s new outing has the cameos, the conspiracy, and the corporate logic. What it doesn’t have is heart.
The punk auteur’s late-career swan song is ragged, witty, and politically sharpened, though not always as cohesive as its ambitions.
“The Dink” turns pickleball rivalries into an easygoing comedy about aging, ego, and unexpected connection.
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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