"In Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice , the distance from hope to despair is a short jump—a chasm crossed with the help of something s...

"For all its natural beauty and genuine sense of surprise, however, this is a film handicapped by Igorrr’s uniquely terrible music, a...

"For a film about the breakdown of a bourgeoisie family’s comfortable suburban existence following the death of its patriarch, Russel...

"The ocean has provided fertile territory for visual experimentation in recent years in a number of non-narrative art-house films, fr...

"Shot on desaturated Super 16 mm film in a Danish limestone quarry, Winter Brothers is one of the more aesthetically idiosyncratic d...

"The documentary Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? begins with a baritone voice intoning the following credo over pin-drop silence: ...

"In our drought-ridden Southwest, the sight of a sprinkler left to spray unsupervised for hours tends to cause alarm among the enviro...

"The basis for the film, specified in an opening title card, is Kiarostami’s photography work. Looking over his stills archive, the f...

"For The Commuter , director Jaume Collet-Serra shrewdly casts longtime collaborator Liam Neeson, who recently announced (again) that...

"With Happy End , Michael Haneke takes circuitous routes to arrive at rather simplistic observations—namely, that modern technology i...

"Somewhere deep in the foggy Italian countryside, in an abandoned barn in the middle of the night, Michael Jackson's 'The Way...

"Fittingly, the perennial question of whether art and artist can possibly be detached from one another looms heavily over I Love You,...

"At once a vacation movie and a homecoming story, a coming-of-age and coming-out tale, and a study of both teen epiphanies and adult ...

"After scrupulously analyzing the rippling effects of a man’s moment of human weakness in Force Majeure , Ruben Östlund has adopted a...

"'War is war. Life is life. You can’t lump them together,' says a burly construction worker early on in Valeska Grisebach’s W...

"Like In the Shadow of Women , Lover for a Day is shot in widescreen black and white by Renato Berta, staged in a prosaic suite of b...

"Making liberal use of inner monologue to give form to Salinger’s feverish stop-and-go writing process, Strong ties the epiphanies a...

"Shot in 4:3 with sliver-thin depth of field and a lush palette of swampy greens, Amman Abbasi’s Dayveon is largely predicated on th...

"François Truffaut called They Live by Night 'the most Bressonian of American films,' and while his characterization was ove...

"Splendor can't be diminished by context or weakened by one's overexposure to it. That's one of the principal lessons of ...