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The camera accompanies a man down several stories in a rickety elevator. As he leaves the building, we stay inside,…

Tyler has left his family to have a weekend with a friend and his friend’s buddies. Tyler quickly finds out…

What makes a family? Love? Blood? Both? Neither? This is the central theme of Shoplifters, another great drama by Kore-eda…

Academy isset to announce the shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film on December 17.For me, personally, this has always been…

If you thought daring, genre-bending Iranian filmmaking peaked with Ana Lily Amirpour’s vampire spaghetti western, A Girl Walks Home Alone at…

No Date, No Signature, the new movie from director Vahid Jalilvand, is an engrossing family drama that feels quite similar…

Few would have dared touch Delphine de Vigan’s bestseller, Based on a True Story, with a ten-foot pole. Hailed as gloriously…

To contrast Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1973 Papillon with its remake is to underscore certain differences between commercial films of two distinct generations.…

Like the recent Brazilian film Araby, Dominican writer-director Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’s Cocote grafts a fictional narrative onto the sturdy stock…

Vahid Jalilvand’s No Date, No Signature is so worked out that you know that every nuance is pointed and intentional. Jalilvand’s formal…