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Robert Abele
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A subtle and mysterious connection is made in the hypnotic ‘Miroirs No. 3’
Director Christian Petzold, dependably sensitive to the frustrations of interior characters, reunites with his signature star, Paula Beer, for a tale of oblique attachment.
Under the volcano, a city converses with its past in the haunting ‘Pompei: Below the Clouds’
Director Gianfranco Rosi builds an intimate city portrait of Naples, filled with people leading bustling modern lives in the environs of an ancient catastrophe.
All 15 of the Oscar-nominated short films, reviewed
Treats in small packages await the curious as the academy nominates five worthy shorts each in live-action, documentary and animation. Here's a guide to help…
‘Midwinter Break’ shows a marriage that’s too accommodating of an unspoken strain
Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds play a couple trapped in stasis, one with trauma embedded in its past, in a movie based on Bernard MacLaverty's…
In ‘Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie,’ two losers turn time travel into a fame machine
It's got nothing to do with the band but everything to do with "Back to the Future," as a duo of also-rans hope to alter…
A widow gets resourceful when the ground shifts beneath her in the feisty ‘Calle Málaga’
Spanish acting legend and Pedro Almodóvar veteran Carmen Maura commands a well-proportioned indie about the moves one makes to hold onto a sense of self.
From Iceland, ‘The Love That Remains’ shows a fractured family tied to the landscape
Filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason serves as his own cinematographer to capture the story of a family in dissolution, splitting up yet linked by routine.
A beautiful town haunted by its own racism gets its close-up in ‘Natchez’
Sensitively directed by Suzannah Herbert, a documentary about a small plantation town's ugly past — and lingering present — reveals a South still in conflict.