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Karlovy Vary Film Festival Opens With Pop and Politics
The day after a fiery opening ceremony, Liev Schreiber makes a plea for Ukraine
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‘Official Competition’ Film Review: Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz Cut Loose in Breezy Comedy
The actors’ megawatt charisma is enough to carry the show, at least for a while
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‘Mother and Son’ Film Review: Intimate Immigration Drama Spans Decades
Cannes 2022: Léonor Serraille closes out Cannes’ main competition with a family story whose touch is more tactile than didactic
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‘Holy Spider’ Film Review: Disturbing Serial-Killer Drama Goes to Extremes to Show Violence Against Women
Cannes 2022: “Border” director Ali Abbasi reimagines the 2001 case of an Iranian religious fanatic who slaughtered 16 young women
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‘R.M.N.’ Film Review: Cristian Mungiu Explores Romania’s Fractured History Through One Conflicted Town
Cannes 2022: The director of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” lights a slow fuse but the payoff brings the fireworks
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‘The Eight Mountains’ Film Review: Belgian Male-Bonding Drama Is Impressively Unsentimental
Cannes 2022: Directors Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch strip away the pretense and artifice as they explore a decades-spanning friendship
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‘Scarlet’ Review: World War I Drama Folds Fact Into Fiction
Cannes 2022: “Martin Eden” director Pietro Marcello returns with a more ambitious — and more uneven — new film
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‘Parallel Mothers’ Film Review: Pedro Almodóvar Both Fulfills and Upends Expectations
This tale of maternity gives you the melodrama and art-direction you expect from the Spanish auteur, but with a provocative and unpredictable spin
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‘Red Rocket’ Film Review: Sean Baker Finds a Touch of Donald Trump in His Porn-World Hustler
The film may be another Baker indie drama about sex workers, but it’s also got plenty to say about the last four years
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‘France’ Film Review: Léa Seydoux Is Stuck in Hollow Look at the Hollowness of Fame
Bruno Dumont’s film was greeted with boos at the Cannes Film Festival
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‘Benedetta’ Film Review: Paul Verhoeven Delivers Beauty, Belief and Nun-on-Nun Sex
In this erotic drama, the Dutch provocateur has managed to encompass all the themes and obsessions that have marked his five-decade, three-language career
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‘Drive My Car’ Film Review: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Trip Starts Strong But Then Sputters
Japanese director’s drama is bursting with interesting flourishes and winsome tangents, but also with heavy-handed melodrama
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‘Bergman Island’ Film Review: Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps Star in Light and Airy Ingmar Bergman Riff
Mia Hansen-Løve has created a Russian nesting doll of a movie, commenting on itself while throwing manna to the cinephile masses
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‘Titane’ Review: ‘Raw’ Director Returns With Graphic, Gender-Exploring Body Horror Film
Julia Ducournau’s sophomore effort isn’t for the faint of heart
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‘Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon’ Film Review: Ana Lily Amirpour Whips Up a Heady Bourbon Street Cocktail
Venice 2021: The director’s third film stars Jeon Jong-seo and Kate Hudson and draws from superhero cinema, raver subculture and Southern Gothic fiction
