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May 14, 2018 — A fable, a social critique, and a frontrunner for the top prize.

May 14, 2018 — A favorite at Cannes, the Spanish director returns with one of his best features yet.

May 14, 2018 — A dance party gets way, way out of hand.

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

May 13, 2018 — It was decades ago, during one of the bitterest Montreal winters of his youth, that the acclaimed author and essayist Adam Gopnik had one of the experiences that made him a cinephile for life. The movie theater right down the street from...

May 12, 2018 — The nineties-era love story returns the French director to critical favor.

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

May 10, 2018 — A new series on the Criterion Channel looks back at the political turmoil that brought down the 1968 Cannes Film Festival.

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

May 6, 2018 — In his final masterpiece, Sergei Eisenstein revolutionized the screen biography, departing from the conventions of the genre to mount some of his boldest experiments. Ivan the Terrible, a two-part epic about the notorious Russian Tsar, is fueled by what the great director-theorist...