Filmmaker Mark Cousins provides a master class in focusing on thematic strands in Hitchcock’s imposing body of work.

Vicky Krieps’s masterly performance carries this flawed but compelling character study masquerading as a western.

Ethan Hawke directs the biopic of Flannery O’Connor, writer of some of the most original fiction in American literature.

What’s the point of a top 10 list if it rubber stamps the usual suspects and mimics so many others?

A solid, psychological horror film from Mongolia.

Vicky Krieps gives a magisterial, totally committed performance in a a remarkable, singular character study. Rarely has a performer conveyed painful sorrow in such a restrained but forceful manner.

An Afghan family flee their home and join other refugees seeking asylum in the European Union.

Set in the remote mountains and jungles of Colombia, the movie follows a guerrilla group of child and teenage soldiers as their beliefs are, one by one, stripped in a hallucinatory test of good, evil, solidarity, and treachery.

Good intentions don’t make for good drama—though librarians will love this movie.