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These Soccer and World Cup Movies Have Big Goals

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

‘Four Samosas’ Review: A Romp Through Little India

This snappy indie comedy by Ravi Kapoor sees a group of Indian American teenagers hatch a harebrained plan to steal a bag of diamonds.

‘Farha’ Review: A Most Brutal Coming-of-Age Story

Set in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this drama depicts the upheaval of Palestinian society from a 14-year-old girl’s perspective.

‘Strange World’ Review: All Too Familiar

The latest animated Disney creation is like “Journey to the Center of the Earth” reborn as an intercultural fantasia that takes aim at the climate...

‘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”...