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‘Memories of My Father’ Review: Javier Cámara Adds Life to Fernando Trueba’s Nostalgic Tale
This adaptation of Héctor Abad Faciolince’s autobiographical novel mixes gauzy reminiscence and blistering history
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‘Soft & Quiet’ Review: Shocking Debut Feature Reveals the Hate Lurking Within Seemingly Ordinary People
What seems like a blandly cheerful get-together for white church ladies devolves into racist violence in Beth de Araújo’s stunning debut
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‘Argentina, 1985’ Review: Advocates and Activists Fight to Reveal the Nation’s Painful Past
Santiago Mitre doesn’t rewrite the historical drama, but his courtroom procedural on the Trial of the Juntas is an effective crowd-pleaser
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‘Aftersun’ Review: Charlotte Wells Debuts With an Achingly Stirring Coming-of-Age Tale
The first-time filmmaker poignantly captures the passage of time as it affects both parents and children
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‘Dark Glasses’ Review: Dario Argento Returns to the Director’s Chair with a Minor Effort
The giallo master’s first directorial effort in a decade spawns more indifference than it does scares
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‘My Imaginary Country’ Review: Chilean Doc Celebrates the Children of the Revolution
Legendary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán talks to women from all walks of life about their roles in the country’s 2019 protests
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‘Athena’ Review: Romain Gavras Captures French Police Brutality With Visceral Power
The story of a clash between cops and the Middle Eastern community calls to mind co-writer Ladj Ly’s recent “Les Misérables”
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‘Grand Jeté’ Review: Ballerina Drama Dances Around Its Darker Themes
A perverse and forbidden relationship is examined but not deeply explored in this visually challenging and provocative German import
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‘Nuclear’ Film Review: Oliver Stone Defends Nukes as a Power Source in Didactic Documentary
Venice Film Festival 2022: Stock footage, graphs and Stone’s own narration confirm the Oscar-winning director is here to teach rather than to entertain
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‘The Lost King’ Film Review: Sally Hawkins’ Amateur Historian Seeks to Clear Richard III’s Name
Toronto Film Festival 2022: Stephen Frears and co-writer Steve Coogan’s follow-up to their previous true tale, “Philomena”
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‘The Invitation’ Film Review: Nathalie Emmanuel Can’t Save Cliched Take on Socially Conscious Horror
Beyond one somewhat gory scene, Jessica M. Thompson delivers little to nothing to genuinely shock or awe
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‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ Film Review: Indian ‘Forrest Gump’ Remake Burdened With the Original’s Flaws
The setting and language have changed, but the story still thinks it’s being uplifting about the neuroatypical even as it punches down
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‘Luck’ Film Review: Animated Tale Delivers More Horseshoes Than Broken Mirrors
It’s another film that turns everything mystical and unknowable into a corporate environment – but its better flourishes kick it up a notch
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‘A Love Song’ Film Review: Dale Dickey Delivers a Career-Best Performance in Transcendent Love Story
Dickey and Wes Studi bloom in the desert as widowed old friends tentatively seeking connection in Max Walker-Silverman’s impressive debut
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‘Gone in the Night’ Film Review: Winona Ryder Confronts the Passage of Time in a Thriller Packed with Twists
Eli Horowitz’s film starts out like a cabin-in-the-woods horror movie before flipping the script on multiple occasions
