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‘Memories of My Father’ Review: Death of a Patriarch

Directed by Fernando Trueba, this treacly melodrama focuses on the Colombian writer Héctor Abad Faciolince’s coming-of-age as shaped by his father, the doctor and human...

‘The Box’ Review: A Dark Coming-of-Age Tale

This unsettlingly cryptic thriller directed by Lorenzo Vigas follows a teenager after he retrieves the remains of his father who was found in a mass...

‘Soft & Quiet’ Review: Far-Right Ladies Night

This distressingly immersive horror film by Beth de Araújo traces a group of white supremacist women in real time.

‘Peaceful’ Review: A Homage to French Filmmaking

Emmanuelle Bercot’s drama about a man diagnosed with late-stage cancer plays like a eulogy for a nearly bygone era of French cinema and its stars.

‘Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power’ Review: Demystifying the Male Gaze

Directed by Nina Menkes, the film is a distressingly prescriptive documentary aimed at unpacking the patriarchal ways of seeing that have dominated the history of...

‘The Ring’ at 20: Millennial Horror That’s Still Infecting Movies Today

The film that kicked off the West’s J-horror fascination was made in the shadow of 9/11. Its influence can be seen in “Smile,” “It Follows”...

‘The Same Storm’ Review: A Lockdown Grab Bag

Featuring actors mainly performing from their own homes, this multistory drama clumsily wrestles with the struggles of everyday people during the first months of the...