Veteran provocateur Paul Verhoeven’s movie about lust and mania in a 17th-century Tuscan convent fulfills its sensationalistic promise.

The straightforward and innocent way of how kids perceive the world, despite how complicated and rough the surroundings, is remarkably depicted in the splendid first feature film by Tatiana Huezo.

The elegant directorial debut of British-American actress Rebecca Hall revolves around two light-skinned Black women following different paths.

The New Yorker hailed Ferrante’s slender yet loaded novel as “a brutally frank novel of maternal ambivalence.” The same could be said of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation.

Jane Campion performs a seductive sleight of hand in her adaptation of American writer Thomas Savage’s 1967 shapeshifting novel.

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.

Director Denis Villeneuve turns Frank Herbert’s multilayered, 1965 sci-fi classic novel into an involving adventure.

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.

Based on a semi-autobiographical novel, a German Jewish family presciently flees the Nazis in 1933.