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'Memoria' is a marvelously strange sonic detective story
Friday, May 13, 2022
Tilda Swinton plays a botanist who is haunted by a mysterious sound in an intriguing new film. Reviewer Justin Chang says Memoria's climax will leave your jaw on the floor.
Timely and urgent, 'Happening' is a film that speaks to today's abortion debate
Friday, May 06, 2022
A 23-year-old literature student discovers she's pregnant after a fling. This movie, based on Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, traces her desperate attempt to get an abortion in 1963 France.
'Petite Maman' is the best — and most surreal — family movie you'll see in a while
Friday, April 29, 2022
Identical twin sisters play a pair of mysterious playmates in Petite Maman, an enchanting film that achieves an emotional depth that eludes many movies twice its length.
'The Northman' is a brutal revenge story marked by violence, vengeance and vastness
Monday, April 25, 2022
Mostly set in 10th-century Iceland, The Northman tells the story of a Viking prince who sets out to avenge his father's death at the hands of his uncle — a legend that inspired Shakespeare's Hamlet.
'Nitram' is a deeply unsettling portrait of an Australian mass shooter
Friday, April 01, 2022
In 1996, a 28-year-old man went on a shooting rampage in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people. This tense film imagines the weeks and months before the tragedy from the shooter's perspective.
There's a multiverse of roads not taken in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'
Friday, March 25, 2022
Michelle Yeoh stars as a Chinese American immigrant who suddenly develops the power to leap between parallel universes in this moving and often exasperating movie.
'Deep Water' is a disjointed take on an unhappy couple's open marriage
Friday, March 18, 2022
Director Adrian Lyne made his mark in Hollywood years ago with films like Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal. Now he's back, with the story of a picture-perfect marriage marred by mind games.
'Turning Red' confronts the messiness of adolescence with refreshing honesty
Friday, March 11, 2022
In Pixar's new animated film, a Chinese Canadian girl awakens one morning to find that she's turned into an enormous panda. Turning Red provides a lot to look at — and a lot of ideas to grapple with.
Nothing feels fresh in this grim retread of 'The Batman'
Wednesday, March 02, 2022
Though Robert Pattinson is terrific playing the young Bruce Wayne as the most troubled of souls, The Batman comes across as an overly familiar blockbuster, populated by recycled characters.
'Cyrano' infuses an oft-told tale with disarming sincerity and operatic passion
Friday, February 25, 2022
Peter Dinklage aches with unrequited love in this musical retelling of the famous Cyrano de Bergerac story. Cyrano isn't always the most graceful retelling, but it's hard not to admire its conviction.
Family ties are tested in 2 engrossing international films
Friday, February 18, 2022
The Belgian drama Playground unfolds at a school where 7-year-old Nora watches her brother being bullied. The Chadian film Lingui, the Sacred Bonds centers on a mother whose teen daughter is pregnant.
'Kimi' is a pandemic-era thriller that's eerily keyed into our current moment
Thursday, February 10, 2022
An agoraphobic tech worker stumbles on evidence of a possible murder in Steven Soderbergh's new film. Zoë Kravitz stars in this gripping story of technology, surveillance and isolation.
'The Worst Person in the World' takes millennial angst to an exquisite new level
Friday, February 04, 2022
At first glance, the commitment-phobic woman at the film's center may seem to embody stereotypes about people her age, but this perceptive Norwegian dramedy doesn't reduce her to those assumptions.
Strangers on a train share a bumpy ride in the Finnish film 'Compartment No. 6'
Thursday, January 20, 2022
At times, Juho Kuosmanen's film plays like a scruffier, less romantic version of Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise. There's tension to every scene, a sense that anything could go wrong at any moment.
A seemingly good deed goes awry in Asghar Farhadi's gripping moral drama 'A Hero'
Friday, January 14, 2022
A media circus ensues when a man on leave from debtors' prison finds a handbag and returns it to its rightful owner. Motives are always more complicated than they appear in Asghar Farhadi's film.
This 'Macbeth' adaptation distills Shakespeare's tragedy to its furious essence
Thursday, December 23, 2021
Director Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth is a bewitching piece of craftsmanship, featuring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand as the murderous power couple.
Justin Chang pairs the 10 best movies of 2021 — plus 1 film that stands alone
Friday, December 17, 2021
Drive My Car tops Chang's list of the year's best movies, but plenty of other films made the return to theaters extra special.
Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' will make you believe in movies again
Thursday, December 09, 2021
This is the first musical Spielberg's ever made, but he proves a natural: Few other American filmmakers have a more instinctive sense of rhythm and visual flow, or more direct access to your emotions.
'Drive My Car' may be the most absorbing ride you take all year
Tuesday, December 07, 2021
After his wife's death, a middle-aged stage actor forms an unlikely bond with the 20-something woman sent to be his chauffeur. Drive My Car is an intricately structured drama about love and loss.
Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Licorice Pizza' is an endearing slice of '70s Hollywood
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
An enterprising teen and a 20-something photographer's assistant become unlikely friends — and then zig-zag from one comic episode to the next — in this altogether wonderful film.