Shahab Fotouhi‘s debut feature “Boomerang” is a delightful, surprising portrait of modern Iran, but its biggest surprise is that Fotouhi is in his forties. His voice...
At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be much common cause between Pablo Larraín’s anticipated Maria Callas biopic, “Maria,” starring Angelina Jolie as the titular opera...
[head] Andres Veiel’s documentary “Riefenstahl,” which challenges the carefully crafted public persona of one of Germany’s most controversial directors, is one of 17 German films playing...
A love triangle involving a middle-aged couple and a younger woman is exposed and scrutinized from every angle when a professional breakup agent is employed in...
If, before 2022, you were ever called “hysterical” for voicing your concerns that a U.S.-based woman’s constitutionally protected right to have an abortion was actually hanging...
The California state Senate has passed a law that requires consent for the use of dead performers’ likenesses for AI-created digital replicas. SAG-AFTRA has been among...
Erratic, prolific Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (“Pulse,” “Cure”) has, at his best, a peculiar genius for finding strangeness — often malevolence — gathering like dust in...
With “The Act of Killing,” director Joshua Oppenheimer approached the documentary form in a radical, seemingly unthinkable way, inviting his subjects — Indonesian gangsters who had...
Midnight screenings rarely come more fitting than “Baby Invasion,” Harmony Korine‘s latest experimental, unconventional and video game-like assault on the senses, which had its world premiere...
“A Clockwork Orange” features Alex and his fellow droogs breaking into a rich writer’s home and raping his wife, which would be bad enough if he...
