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Full Time

This frenetic and nerve-wracking movie makes the point that for many, it’s worse than a jungle out there.

Passages | Sundance 2023

In Ira Sachs’s brusquely told new film, the libido-led story line supported one of the festival’s best films.

Saint Omer

A talky, heady, and metaphorical courtroom drama conceals depths of sadness beneath its intellectual and legalistic surface.

A Couple

French actress Nathalie Boutefeu stars as Sophia Tolstoy, wife of the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, in a solo tour de force.

You Resemble Me

Director Dina Amer’s incisive and unsettling debut explores how a young French-Moroccan woman ended up becoming radicalized.

Peter Von Kant

François Ozon’s film feels like a lighter version of its source material, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, less Jean Genet and more Noël Coward.

My Donkey, My Lover, & I

A fizzy, feel-good comedy that believes in the goodness of the human heart, even if the brain attached is a little flighty.

Both Sides of the Blade

A moody movie for fans of Claire Denis’s more recent work, character studies with dense emotions to unpack.

Happening

Few movies can be as topical right now as Happening. It plunges us back to the rotten old days when there were almost zero options out of an unwanted pregnancy.