The Review: ‘Holy Days’ Finds Heart in the Hills of 1970s New Zealand
In the mid-1970s, on New Zealand’s South Island, a grieving Māori boy named Brian (Elijah Tamati) finds…
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The Review: Jane Schoenbrun’s ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’
Jane Schoenbrun continues to prove there are few filmmakers working today with a voice as singular and…
The Review: Reviving a Rebel In “Being Bo Widerberg”
Bo Widerberg remains one of Swedish cinema’s great what-ifs—a passionate, working-class auteur from Malmö who…
The Review: ‘The Kidnapping of a President’
The Kidnapping of a President is a brisk, fact-based dark comedy from Finnish director Samuli Valkama. On…
The Review: ‘The Last Resort’ – Paradise Lost in a Gripping Moral Drama
What begins as an idyllic family getaway gradually transforms into a gripping examination of compassion, fear…
The Review: Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is a cinematic behemoth that demands to be experienced on the largest screen…
The Review: The Wizard of the Kremlin
Olivier Assayas’s The Wizard of the Kremlin, adapted from Giuliano da Empoli’s bestselling novel, is an…
The Review: A Charming Ode to Small-Town Roots and Second Chances – ‘Home’
Home (Heim), directed by Julie Skaufel, is a charming, if familiar, Norwegian romantic comedy that leans hard…
The Review: ‘BRB’ – A Charming, Nostalgic Road Trip Anchored by Stellar Sister Chemistry
Kate Cobb’s sophomore feature BRB is a delightful throwback to the messy, dial-up era of early internet…
The Review: ‘Colours of Time’ – A Charming Dual-Timeline Ode to Art
Cédric Klapisch’s Colours of Time is a delightful, French crowdpleaser that weaves together two eras—1895…