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Filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov seems determined to make us look at screens when we go to the movies. Several of his films, including Unfriended, Searching and Profile…

The British Isles can be treacherously vulnerable to twee overload in movies, though last year’s The Ballad of Wallis Island showed that it can be avoided,…

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Cristian Mungiu’s films invariably deal with social, cultural and moral divisions, uneasy truths, ethical dilemmas and unjust compromises. In his latest, Fjord, the Romanian New Wave auteur…

A men’s prison full of lifers mostly in for murder, with a special cell block for seniors with degenerative neurological conditions? Sounds like a double-whammy downer.…

There seemed little need for a follow-up to the 2018 inspirational drama I Can Only Imagine. That film depicted how Bart Millard, the leader of the…

A review of ‘Hope,’ from Cannes Film Festival. Na Hong-Jin’s latest sci-fi pic features a raging battle between South Koreans and invading aliens who crashland. Read…

Any horror nut will tell you not to have sex without anticipating trouble, but what makes Arthur Harari’s The Unknown (L’Inconnu) so mesmerizingly unsettling is that calling this…

Walking around Tehran on a beautiful summer evening, a young couple stops to join a crowd gathered around a lively street music performance. “This country is…

For those unfamiliar with the premise of Jane Eyre, the 1847 novel was written by Charlotte Brontë. (Yes, she was Emily Brontë’s older sister.) The story…