The Macaluso Sisters
Emma Dante’s intense, punishing film follows five, then four siblings from a fateful childhood day through a harsh old age.
Emma Dante’s intense, punishing film follows five, then four siblings from a fateful childhood day through a harsh old age.
Protagonists in movies certainly don’t have to be likeable, but is stiff-necked, high-handed, and wintrily remote any way to go through life (or a film)?
The sight of Isabelle Huppert schlepping unwieldy blocks of dope evokes a comparison to the actress herself dragging her talents to languish in a slight, down-market caper.
A stylish and gritty story of a pugnacious homeless boy fighting to survive on the streets of Tehran.
Director François Ozon takes viewers on a wild ride through florid moods and bruising events.
Set during the tense, suffocating Pinochet era in 1980s Chile, this character study explores the unlikely alliance between an aging drag queen and a dashing revolutionary.
An atmospheric and modern-day take on the legend of an ill-fated water sprite.
Based on a semi-autobiographical novel, a German Jewish family presciently flees the Nazis in 1933.
Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof views capital punishment from four different circumstances and artistic prisms in his anthology film.