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It’s possible that the issue at the heart of “A Missing Part” will resolve itself in a few years. Japan,…
The follow-up to his anarchic debut feature The Twentieth Century, a postmodern restaging of Canadian history that eschewed accuracy and realism…
Danish director Frederik Louis Hviid makes his solo feature debut with an action-packed crime-thriller that doesn’t quite live up to…
Whenever the issue of representation inevitably comes up, various questions are asked about how it can be achieved on film…
Alexandre Dumas’ 1,200-page adventure tale doesn’t condense easily, but a pair of French directors have cracked it brilliantly, underscoring what…
The three words “you burn me” are a surviving fragment (or micro-poem) by Sappho, and make up the title of…
I had hopes that the narrative film I Am Gitmo would provide a nuanced depiction of the experiences of terrorists,…
In my home country of Iran, social justice films never receive the required governmental production permits or–if they’re made–they never…
Throughout the history of world cinema, the sound of fists pounding on doors has always signified something terrible. When it…
Sooner or later, every police officer comes across a case that remains unsolved and haunts him. For Yohan (Bastien Bouillon),…