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Karlovy Vary Film Festival Wraps With Edgy Films, Digital Dreams to ‘Reflect the Full Cinematic Culture of the Year’
The “ambiguous” film festival’s artistic director Karel Och reflects on one of its best years of programming yet
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Karlovy Vary Film Festival Explores Israeli-American Connections in ‘America’ and ‘June Zero’
Karlovy Vary 2022: Ofir Raul Graizer crafts an intimate love triangle, while Jake Paltrow explores Israeli history through characters on the periphery
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‘Vesper’ Film Review: Quietly Dazzling Sci-Fi Drama Creates a New Kind of Genre
Karlovy Vary Film Festival: This European-made, English-language production mixes modern young-adult fiction with the rhythms of the European arthouse
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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
