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… spectacle without substance: a film that gestures toward scandal and intensity but offers little emotional resonance or intellectual insight in return.

There is a particular kind of fatigue that settles over a filmmaker once his signature has been noticed too many times, and Jafar Panahi, joining a press conference for It

… it’s not just an exercise in courage; it’s terrific and powerful …

… a series of fascinating, albeit disturbing, moments in a languid encapsulation of Cronenberg’s obsessions.

At last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Chilean director Diego Céspedes emerged as one of the most striking debut voices — not only because of the emotional depth of his film

… the kind of film that’s difficult to shake.

Paolo Sorrentino has long been fascinated by power in his movies. From chronicling former Italian PM, Giulio Andreotti, in 2008’s Il Divo to the world of PM Silvio Silvio Berlusconi

What lingers most is not the political backdrop or even the narrative itself, but the texture of memory: the heat of the city, the noise of the streets, the quiet

Director Julia Loktev discusses her documentary My Undesirable Friends: Last Air in Moscow (Part 1), reflecting on her return to Russia, the decision to film on an iPhone, and her

… hauntingly beautiful.