A Misappropriated Turkey

May 23, 2019 — One family infiltrates another in one of this year’s top critical favorites.

May 23, 2019 — Our survey of this year’s edition begins with the first animated feature to take the top award.

May 23, 2019 — Performances Those who have recently discovered Kim Minhee will know her as the magnetic actress in Park Chan-wook’s lascivious thriller The Handmaiden, in which she made the clinical act of tooth-filing a new form of eroticism, and in Hong Sangsoo’s...

May 21, 2019 — Claire Denis’s Let the Sunshine In (2017) is one of the great films about middle-aged loneliness, specifically—though not exclusively—as women feel it. It’s not a dating movie, though there’s dating in it. And it’s not a feeling-sorry-for-oneself movie, though there are...

May 20, 2019 — Professor David Bordwell unpacks the sophisticated design of Kenji Mizoguchi’s final masterpiece.

May 20, 2019 — Setting the Haiti of 1962 next to present-day Paris, Bonello weighs the impact of French colonialism.

May 20, 2019 — Triple crosses follow double crosses in this slick crime thriller.

May 20, 2019 — For many, the semi-autobiographical film is one of Almodóvar’s best in years.

May 19, 2019 — Critics are finding the young Russian director’s second feature to be bleak yet irresistibly masterful.

May 17, 2019 — Ly’s fiery fiction feature debut alludes not only to Hugo but also to Fuqua, Kassovitz, and Spike Lee.