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Nagi Notes, writer-director Koji Fukada’s latest, offers a thoughtfully modulated tribute to the communal coziness, haphazard beauty and organic shape of rural life in contemporary Japan.…

The bracing romantic screwball Anaïs in Love (2021) marked the arrival of Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet among the growing ranks of French female directors giving their national cinema…

The filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun’s last film, the eerie and sad I Saw the TV Glow, used a made-up artifact from the pop-culture past — a cultishly…

Screenlife movies just seem cruel at this point. After all, we spend most of our waking lives staring at screens. Computer screens, laptop screens, tablet screens,…

Kantemir Balagov showed talent in his 2017 debut, Closeness, about a kidnapping in a North Caucasus town, then delivered fully on that promise with his stunning second…

In the hot, dry climate of Northwest Nevada, a mother drops off her daughter in town, urging her not to come home anytime soon. Cleo (Elsie…

The cleverest moment in The Sheep Detectives occurs before the movie even properly begins. Prior to the opening credits, the famous MGM lion makes his appearance,…

After two features set far from home — respectively Drift in Greece and The Breaking Ice in China — Anthony Chen returns to Singapore with the…

When you see the names of two such accomplished writer-directors as Rebecca Zlotowski and Robin Campillo credited with the original idea for a film as moribund…

You wait eons for a great tragic film set on the American frontier in the 19th century from a little-known director that features an outstanding male…