There It Is

Jun 8, 2018 — Both Italian directors broke from neorealism to head off in entirely different directions.

Jun 5, 2018 — Both award-winning directors are committing to television projects even as they carry on making feature films.

May 23, 2018 — About halfway through Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation (2016), Dr. Romeo Aldea (Adrian Titieni) finds himself in a patch of woods in the middle of the night, crying. It’s a surprisingly vulnerable moment for a protagonist who is usually all business. We’re...

May 21, 2018 — Movies you may not care about are inspiring some writing you won’t want to ignore.

May 21, 2018 — Beyond the Hills (2012) tells the story of a real-life Romanian tragedy that attracted international media attention in 2005: the death of a young woman submitted to a shockingly medieval exorcism at a small monastery in Moldavia. The monastery was...

May 16, 2018 — Joachim Trier’s jury goes for a satire about a Portuguese soccer star.

May 14, 2018 — A mystery, a road movie, and a tribute to the late Abbas Kiarostami.

May 10, 2018 — The director of Ida returns with the story of an intense love affair.

May 8, 2018 — Horror movies are often understood as products of the imagination, but in the case of Caroline Monnet and Daniel Watchorn’s work, the conventions of the genre are grounded in stories of real-life injustice. Set in a Canadian residential school for...

May 8, 2018 — In his uncharacteristic final masterpiece, the great Hollywood melodramatist Frank Borzage approaches the shadowy violence of film noir with his unique brand of romanticism.