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Bertrand Bonello’s Zombi Child
Setting the Haiti of 1962 next to present-day Paris, Bonello weighs the impact of French colonialism.
Diao Yinan’s The Wild Goose Lake
Triple crosses follow double crosses in this slick crime thriller.
Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory
For many, the semi-autobiographical film is one of Almodóvar’s best in years.
Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You
While a few find the family drama heavy-handed, most critics are enthusiastically cheering on Loach’s latest competition entry.
Jessica Hausner’s Little Joe
The Austrian director, a Cannes regular, is in competition for the first time with a chilly tale of a happiness-inducing flower.
Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole
Critics are finding the young Russian director’s second feature to be bleak yet irresistibly masterful.
Mati Diop’s Atlantics
Diop’s debut fiction feature is a love story, a detective story, and a ghost story.
Ladj Ly’s Les misérables
Ly’s fiery fiction feature debut alludes not only to Hugo but also to Fuqua, Kassovitz, and Spike Lee.
“The Only Sane Person on Rumble Fish”
In the news this week: Francis Ford Coppola, Raúl Ruiz, Joanna Hogg, and Lou Ye.
Mendonça and Dornelles’s Bacurau
Moving from the merely unsettling to the outright bloody, the Brazilian directors come down hard on their new government.
Annie Silverstein’s Bull
Initial response to Silverstein’s first fiction feature is ranging from warm to very warm indeed.
Quentin Dupieux’s Deerskin
Within a brisk seventy-seven minutes, Dupieux and Jean Dujardin escort us into the mind of a potential psychopath.
Doris Day: Iconic, Irrepressible, Misunderstood
All week long, writers have been reminding us that there was more to Doris Day than sweet sunshine.
Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die
The star-studded zom-com has been met with a first round of mildly appreciative reviews.
Previewing Cannes 2019
The seventy-second edition will present new work by some of the world’s most renowned filmmakers.
Screenwriters Remember Alvin Sargent
Whether he was adapting Lillian Hellman or Stan Lee, Sargent excelled at locating the human heart beating at the center of the story.
Surveys and Milestones
This week has seen surveys of the careers of Abbas Kiarostami and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and deep dives into milestone works by George Cukor and Andrei Tarkovsky.
New Restorations and Premieres
The latest updates from Cannes, the Berlinale, Il Cinema Ritrovato, and beyond.
The Czechoslovak New Wave Rolls On
New restorations premiering in Cannes and Karlovy Vary and series in New York and London testify to our ongoing fascination.
Richard Linklater’s 1980s
Humming light sabers weren’t the only thing going on during the maligned decade.
May Books
Greta Garbo, Anita Loos, Ernst Lubitsch, Ben Hecht, and Salka Viertel cross paths in this month’s round.
What Actually Goes On in the Movies
BAM’s Black 90s series, Nina Menkes, a poet, Avengers, and a list of the top films of the 2010s are among this week’s highlights.
Film Comment and Film at Lincoln Center
The new issue features essays on work by Joanna Hogg and Olivier Assayas and a celebration of its publisher’s fiftieth anniversary.
Abel Ferrara’s Very Big Year
With three, possibly four new films opening this year, Ferrara returns to New York to attend MoMA’s retrospective.