Gaza Mon Amour
This gentle, lived-in story about a tentative romance between an older man and woman wins you over with low-key, unhurried charm.
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Only the Animals
Intricate and masterful, strange and heartbreaking, Only the Animals is a great new entry into the multilinear narrative canon.
Golden Voices
What does it take to make a new start in a new land, one that lets you earn a living and maintain your self-respect? Such a reinvention is never easy, especially when it takes place in middle age.
I’m Your Man
How would an algorithm pick an ideal romantic partner? I’m Your Man takes on this question in a bittersweet, witty way.
The Mad Women’s Ball
Overstuffed and often heavy-handed as it is, the movie is beautifully shot and styled, features some very moving scenes, and derives power from its incendiary performances.
The Nowhere Inn
Part mockumentary, part twisted friendship story, part tour journal, and part meditation on fame.
Ma Belle, My Beauty
For a film about a revived passion, Ma Belle, My Beauty runs oddly low on energy and fire.
Wildland
This tense, unnerving tale of an orphaned girl’s entrapment in a criminal family throbs with pain and danger under a tightly controlled surface.