A Chiara
Calabrian life, as depicted here, moves in step with corruption that can be either purposefully pursued or casually accepted, but is always expected.
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Anaïs in Love
Part of the movie’s punch can be chalked up to the sheer audacity of its titular character: a monster of self-absorption, flighty, rude, and prone to oversharing and interrupting.
Hit the Road
A family heads for the Iranian borderlands in a story of flight and escape.
Paris, 13th District
Director Jacques Audiard goes lighter this time around with a study of reckless and sometimes feckless youth.
You Won’t Be Alone
Director Goran Stolevski’s folk/psychological/body/art-house horror may burrow under your skin and lodge itself there.
Intregalde
Radu Munteanu’s mordant comedy slides from a Romanian Green Acres to the grotesque.
Huda’s Salon
A claustrophobic sense of entrapment pervades Hany Abu-Assad’s Palestine-based political thriller.