Jonathan Glazer’s historical drama is a groundswell indictment of genocidal complacency. But should it win an Oscar?
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The exquisite latest work from writer-director Andrew Haigh embodies the best in what queer commercial filmmaking might offer.
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Neither Hayao Miyazaki’s animation nor William Oldroyd’s psychological drama is very good, though both arise out of compelling scenarios.
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Directors Sofia Coppola and Todd Haynes have both crafted unsettling dramas about audience complicity in famed cases of statutory rape.
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Writer-director Justine Triet’s psychological mystery is a meditation on our cultural predilection for interpreting women’s agency as deviant or offensive.
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For all its concern towards the people of the Osage, Martin Scorsese’s new historical drama is primarily interested in watching its subjects die.
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Andrea Pallaoro directs the magnetic Trace Lysette in a ravishing family drama that is both stylish and homey, if occasionally gratuitous.
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A.V. Rockwell's feature debut is a refreshing, romantic yet unsentimental story about one woman’s fight to raise her son in turn-of-the-millennium Harlem.
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Writer-director Davy Chou’s portrait of a Korea-born Frenchwoman’s fitful struggle to place herself elides any true impression of angst, discomfort, or urgency.
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Robert Downey Jr.’s upcoming remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece is an act of corporate vandalism.
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An Irish drama about a reserved young girl who spends a summer with distant relatives, The Quiet Girl is directed by Colm Bairéad with intimate specificity.
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In this third spin-off to the Rocky franchise, Michael B. Jordan takes the reins and guides his predecessors’ macho creation toward quieter, more sensitive dimensions of manhood.
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The directorial debut of Frances O’Connor is an engrossing fictionalized portrait of the woman who wrote Wuthering Heights.
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The 1979 Best Picture-winning family drama offers a fascinating diagnosis of contemporary gender expectations.
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Charlotte Wells’ debut about a father and daughter on holiday is a work of profound tenderness that hiccups with lumbering artiness.
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Writer-director Sam Mendes’ new romantic drama is a reminder that, at its best, cinema is an affirmation of life.
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The latest indulgence in old Hollywood nostalgia from writer-director Damien Chazelle is an epic demonstration of abused creative potential.
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In this semi-autobiographical work, writer-director James Gray lays bare his visceral, unsettling childhood memories with characteristic gentleness and care.
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Ruben Östlund’s latest satire is a deliciously dismal take-down of wealth inequality, stretching from catwalks to luxury yachts to a rocky beach strewn with life vests and pretzel sticks.
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Based upon Delia Owens’ bestseller, the latest from producer Reese Witherspoon is part of an ongoing trend in movies about women who exact revenge on abusive men.
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