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May 14, 2018 — Few critics come to the defense of this story of an all-female Kurdish combat unit.

May 13, 2018 — Critics may differ on Jia’s sprawling gangster movie, but all agree that Zhao Tao is outstanding.

May 12, 2018 — The five-part essay film is “infused in equal measures by despair and aspiration.”

May 12, 2018 — An urgent dispatch from the conflict in eastern Ukraine is winning plaudits from critics.

May 10, 2018 — The followup to Mrs. Fang is an oral history of China’s “Anti-Rightist Campaign” in the late 1950s.

May 10, 2018 — The underground scene of Leningrad in the early 80s is the real star here.

May 9, 2018 — “One of the best Welles documentaries” makes the case for the director as a brilliant graphic artist.

May 9, 2018 — Under the Influence In 1988, David Simon was a journalist shadowing detectives at the Baltimore Police Department for his first book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. On midnight shifts, one of the sergeants would regularly screen movies for his squad,...

May 9, 2018 — Cannes’s Opening Night film is met with a first round of lukewarm reviews.

May 9, 2018 — 1. Born Arutin Sayadyan, eighteenth-century Armenian poet Sayat-Nova—whose pen name means “King of Songs”—served as the initial inspiration for The Color of Pomegranates. Sayat-Nova was an ashugh, a troubadour whose verses were set to music that he played on a...