Veteran documentarian Frederick Wiseman stitches together a covertly political portrait of a conservative town in rural America.
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Review: John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
This video-game-esque fight-fest gives Keanu Reeves a bunch of knives and puts him in opposition with the best and worst elements of its predecessors.
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Review: Up the Mountain
A visually immaculate look at those living inside a Chinese mountain village immerses itself in the pleasures of creation.
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Review: Little Woods
Tessa Thompson and Lily James star as two sisters caught up in the cross-border smuggling trade of prescription drugs.
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Review: Top End Wedding
An Aboriginal woman’s homecoming to the Tiwi Islands is the romantic comedy that Australia has been missing out on.
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Review: 3 Faces
Jafar Panahi’s latest film bypasses explicit social critique for a more enjoyable, idiosyncratic journey through small-town Iran.
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Two takes on 1985: An empathetic and moving look at the AIDS Crisis
André Shannon and Debbie Zhou present two opinions on Yen Tan’s restrained and perceptive drama.
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Review: Thunder Road
This off-beat tragicomedy could be retitled “Man on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown”.
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Review: Transit
Christian Petzold’s wrenching melodrama is an aching journey of forgetfulness, forgiveness, and identity in flux.
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Within and Without: Poetry in Motion and Lee Chang-dong’s Burning
Claire White shares her lasting memories of Lee Chang-dong’s impressionistic mystery.
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Review: Us
Jordan Peele gives Get Out an evil twin with this loopier, looser horror follow-up.
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Review: Hotel Mumbai
Dev Patel and Armie Hammer star in a white lens fictional retelling of the 2008 Mumbai Attacks to disastrous, culturally insensitive effect.
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Review: Captain Marvel
Marvel’s first female superhero flies straight into a well-worn template that lacks gusto.
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Review: Revenge
This mischievous survival film attempts to reclaim the complicated rape-revenge narrative.
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Review: High Life
Claire Denis’ ambitious first English-language flight into space is brought crashing down by glaringly conventional representational issues.
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Review: Everybody Knows
Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem reunite in Asghar Farhadi’s latest melodrama, where past merges with the present to unexpected results.
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Review: Sink or Swim
A makeshift heptad form a syncronised swimming team in this wryly offbeat, exposition-filled French dramedy.
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Review: Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent
Any celebratory spirit is scarce in this observational documentary centered on enigmatic fashion icon, Yves Saint Laurent.
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Review: The Guilty
This Danish single-location procedural is more concerned with its gripping phone conversation than any visual charm or narrative plausibility.
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Review: Border
Ali Abbasi’s Swedish fable writhes in twists and turns, though renders its ethereal elements too literal.
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Review: Capharnaüm
Nadine Labaki’s neorealist drama respects the depths of a child’s sorrow and anger at an impoverished world.
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Review: If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins’ follow up to Moonlight is an empathetic craft of feeling.
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Review: At Eternity’s Gate
Willem Dafoe plays Vincent van Gogh in this murky symphony of paint and celluloid.
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Review: Arctic
Mads Mikkelsen can’t save this pulseless survival film that takes too long to thaw out.
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Review: Cold Pursuit
This Scandinavian revenge remake doesn’t deliver beyond its zippy, marketable premise.
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Review: On the Basis of Sex
This biopic based on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life is not especially deep or complex, but it is empowering comfort food.
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