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Slovak documentarian and editor Marek Šulík (Heavy Hearth) provides an inside view of the presidency of Slovak lawyer and anti-corruption activist Zuzana Čaputová,…

A New Year’s party rapidly becomes a ‘New Fears’ party for three couples. Blurred Lines explores brave and relevant subject matter and  conveys…

Algiers was Paris on the Mediterranean, a bustling café city under shady palm trees. Looming overhead the modern district was…

resented at the 19th Rome Film Fest in the Grand Public section, the new film by Gabriele Muccino, Here Now, begins like a love…

It’s not quite an ultra-villain origin story. But nor is Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice in any way a flattering depiction…

Paris, 1935. Penniless aspiring actor Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz, with a note-perfect performance made up almost entirely of pouts, shrugs…

The first thing one notices about Marta Mateus’ feature debut, Fire of Wind, is its striking look. A vineyard extends as…

A 40-minute follow-up to his 2021 Sparks musical Annette, It’s Not Me is Leos Carax’s tribute to Jean-Luc Godard, who died by medically…

After the Netflix series Zero a fantasy-drama-teenage story set in the outskirts of Milan, Paola Randi (Little Tito and the Aliens ) turns to…

The controversial and divisive “The Apprentice” dresses an origin story of Donald Trump in the clothes of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. And…