Radu Jude

Film Review: Radu Jude’s “Dracula” — Suck it to Us

November 10, 2025
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Like other Eastern European artists, Radu Jude is at his best channeling his anger through dark comedy.

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At the Berlin Film Festival: Radu Jude’s Journey Into Guilt, Plus a Young Peter Hujar and an Earnest Jessica Chastain

March 16, 2025
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In Berlin, the closest thing to a consensus on “Kontinental ’25” was that the film didn’t measure up to Romanian director Radu Jude’s customary standards. My view is that the critics didn’t look hard enough.

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Film Festival Reviews: TIFF 2023 — In School, On the Streets, and In the Woods

September 19, 2023
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Reviews of three dark films that probe the crisis of authority, immigration, and feminism in Europe

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Film Reviews: NY Film Festival Closes — Theater on the Screen

October 12, 2021
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Two divergent works of theater for the screen were at this year’s NYFF, an adaptation of Macbeth in black and white, and a raunchy sleeper from Romania.

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Film Review: Berlin International Film Festival 2021 — a Promising Virtual Detour

March 26, 2021
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This was an improved edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, and a number of films seem poised to travel widely, despite being largely ignored by the US media.

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