Joachim Trier stakes his claim as a master of modern social cinema.
Robert Wickers
A fine line between heaven and hell in Spain’s latest submission for Best International Feature at the Academy Awards.
The Fence review – Colonialism on the Brink in Claire Denis’ Africa-set Allegory
A familiar map on foreign territory in Claire Denis’ The Fence.
Non-spaces and the liminal at the fore of Zhengfan Yang’s Stranger.
Lesson Learned: Balint Szimler’s Fierce Indictment of Hungary’s Fading Spirit
A cinematic referendum on the soul of a nation.
Lorena Alvarado’s textured debut threads fiction through fact in an ode to a Venezuela lost.
A deeply tender narrative finds illumination in stillness.
Few films in recent memory have undergone a production process that rivals the dramatic material of the work itself quite like Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed and the Sacred Fig.
Ryan J. Sloan and Ariella Mastroianni’s genre-bending debut is a triumph of bootstrapped independent cinema.
Future films of any stripe will be hard-pressed to surpass the ambition and ostentation of Emilia Perez.