The screenwriter and director Christopher Landon (“Happy Death Day”) will nevermore shudder at a bump in the night. Henceforth, it will just be specters thanking him for “We Have a Ghost,” a...
Read moreAt this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, nostalgia has taken center stage in a retrospective series of coming-of-age movies chosen by actors and filmmakers from all over the world.The organizers of this...
Read moreIn most 12-step programs, attendees are advised to keep private what happens in the meetings. But what if somebody in the room announced an intention to commit murder? Such a conundrum might...
Read moreWith more than one million viewers in its first month in theaters, a movie called “Tirailleurs,” or “Riflemen,” has touched a nerve in France by bringing attention to a neglected aspect of...
Read more“Gin to here, water to here, and a squeeze of lemon,” says Charlotte Rampling’s wheelchair-using Ruth, pointing to an empty jug that she refills with her boozy cocktail of choice three or...
Read moreA teenage boy is caught between the man who raised him and a new guiding figure in this affecting study of masculinity and coming of age.
Read moreTwo brothers reconnect over a lost love in this drama from the Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu.
Read more“Linoleum,” the enigmatic feature from Colin West, is so determinedly coy in its early scenes that it risks losing the audience before the midway point. It’s well worth sticking around, though, as...
Read more“My Happy Ending,” about an actress starting chemotherapy, is based on a play by the Israeli writer Anat Gov, who died in 2012. The stage version was understood as a reflection of...
Read more“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,” William Wordsworth wrote about the early days of the French Revolution. “But to be young was very heaven!” “Dancing the Twist in Bamako,”...
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