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‘A Radiant Girl’ Review: Coming of Age in Paris, 1942

This Holocaust drama could have easily passed for a blissful teen romance; instead, it’s an awkwardly rendered portrait of a young Jewish woman in denial.

‘Cinema Sabaya’ Review: Conversations and Compassion in a Small Town in Israel

Israel’s Oscar entry is a documentary-style chamber piece about a video workshop for Arab and Jewish women whose conclusions feel, well, tired.

‘Full Time’ Review: No Rest for the Working Girl

A breathlessly tense portrait of modern labor, this French drama stars Laure Calamy as a single mother who hits her breaking point during a nationwide...

‘The Man in the Basement’ Review: The Occupation of Paris

This nebulous French thriller tracks the unraveling of a Jewish family that accidentally sells their storage cellar to an antisemitic conspiracy theorist.

‘After Love’ Review: The Other Woman

In this intelligent melodrama by the director Aleem Khan, a British woman discovers her husband has been leading a double life.

‘Kitchen Brigade’ Review: Oh Chef! My Chef!

A sous chef is forced to take a job at a hostel for undocumented minors in this feel-good drama with a white-savior problem.

‘Candy Land’ Review: Truck-Stop Thrills

In this sleazy slasher by the writer and director John Swab, a group of sex workers adopts a former member of a religious cult.

‘Living’ Review: Losing His Inhibition

Bill Nighy stars as a buttoned-up bureaucrat transformed by a grim diagnosis in this drama by the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, adapted from an Akira Kurosawa...

‘Children of the Mist’ Review: Stolen Youth

A documentarian traces a Hmong girl’s experience with a custom that permits boys to detain girls with the intention of marriage.

These Soccer and World Cup Movies Have Big Goals

Soccer movies are often eclectic and at times unclassifiable, drawing from multiple continents and genres.