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‘Our Father, the Devil’ Review: Wash Away Your Sins

In this absorbing psychological thriller, a Guinean refugee living in France is rattled by the appearance of a menacing figure from her past.

‘Madeleine Collins’ Review: A Duplicitous Mother

This clever, but disappointingly tame psychodrama sees Virginie Efira as a professional translator secretly living with two families; one in Switzerland, the other in France.

‘Between Two Worlds’ Review: Juliette Binoche Goes Undercover

In this social-justice drama, the French actress plays an investigative journalist who poses as a cleaner to expose worker exploitation.

‘Lady Killer’ and ‘The Strange Mister Victor’ Review

Two newly restored films by the director Jean Grémillon, whom cinephiles discuss like a special secret, get a second life in theaters.

Claire Simon Finds a New Subject: Herself

The French director Claire Simon was making a movie about a Paris hospital when she found out she had cancer. So she became a character...

‘The Beasts’ Review: Bad Neighbors

Class tensions and masculine power games abound in this engrossing rural thriller from Spain.

‘Bawaal’ Review: Getting Some Perspective

In this Bollywood production, a narcissistic history teacher reconnects with his wife on a trip through Europe.

‘Final Cut’ Review: A Feeble Rise of the Living Dead

A remake of a Japanese zom-com, this French adaptation about the making of a B-level zombie flick does little to justify its existence.

Patrick Wilson on ‘Insidious: The Red Door’ and ‘The Conjuring’

The actor had long wanted to make a film. When he was offered the job on the new “Insidious,” the chance to direct a box...

‘Amanda’ Review: A Friendship Forged in Delusion

A delusional college grad befriends an agoraphobic misanthrope in this stylish dark comedy by the Italian director Carolina Cavalli.