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Amid a flood of unflattering reviews, here is an unpopular opinion. I loved “The Devil Wears Prada 2.” It has become hard to admit such a…

A commonality among most American movies about Middle Eastern wars is their strict focus on U.S. soldiers — see last year’s startlingly immersive Warfare — from…

The writer and actor Jordan Firstman — known for viral web videos, for films like Rotting in the Sun, for the television series I Love LA…

Football superstar Eric Cantona, the poetic yet pugilistic French striker who played best for English club Manchester United in the 1990s, gets the whole the-man-the-myth-the-legend treatment…

Ryusuke Hamaguchi has often shown a fascination for the exchange of ideas as a form of process, negotiation and exploration, whether it’s the theater workshops in Drive…

Tackling a subject close to home for writer-director Marie Kreutzer, Gentle Monster examines the fallout when Philip Weiss (Laurence Rupp) — a middle-class Austrian documentary maker,…

Given how adventurous and prolific Steven Soderbergh’s filmography is, it’s a bit of a shock to realize that his new feature — his second this year,…

If nothing else, Guy Ritchie’s latest effort proves that a movie can be ridiculously convoluted and simple-minded at the same time. Depicting the efforts of a…

For a brief, enticing stretch of Guillaume Canet’s Karma, it appears to be a film in which Canet’s ex-wife Marion Cotillard plays an alcoholic employed at…

At the steady rate of two or three movies a year (shorts and features combined), Romanian director Radu Jude has become one of the most prolific…