A retired detective returns to his job to hunt down a child killer in this distinctive and Béla Tarr-influenced film.
Category: Movies
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‘Dry Ground Burning’ Review: Feminist Gangsters, Brazilian Style
Featuring a cast of local actors playing semi-fictionalized versions of themselves, this movie flies in the face of the country’s political establishment.
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Name Above the Movie Title? How About in It?
With the release of “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant,” here’s a look at the occasional phenomenon of directors branding movies with their own names.
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‘Chevalier’ Review: A Black Virtuoso Rocks the Court of Marie Antoinette
A new movie about Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-George, may owe as much to “Bridgerton” as it does the history books.
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‘Other People’s Children’ Review: True Romance
A radiant Virginie Efira stars as a Parisian teacher who blissfully falls for a man and his 4-year-old daughter, complicating everyone’s lives.
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‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’: Beloved, Banned and Finally Adapted
Judy Blume’s 1970 novel hits the big screen at a difficult political moment for a story with themes of bodily autonomy and religious choice.
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‘Trenque Lauquen’ Review: Lose Yourself
This sprawling Argentine film, about a missing botanist, finds liberation in being lost — and treats mystery as an end in itself, not just as a road to revelation.
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‘Carmen’ Review: We’re Not in Spain Anymore
The choreographer Benjamin Millepied’s directing debut is an of-the-moment but scattered take on a classic love story.
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‘Plan 75’ Review: Leaving Early
In this quietly bold debut feature, the Japanese government offers a euthanasia program and a 78-year-old woman considers her future.
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‘Quasi’ Review: Medieval Inanity
The new film from the comedy troupe Broken Lizard is a goofy take on the story of the famed hunchback Quasimodo.
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‘Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant’ Review: Call of Duty
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this furious and discomfiting war film that tugs on your conscience for days.
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‘Somewhere in Queens’ Review: Rooting for the Underdog
Ray Romano plumbed the absurdities of family life on his sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond.” For this, his feature directing debut, he sticks to an Italian American milieu.