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Foreign

A Radiant Girl

Teen romance and the looming Holocaust make for bizarre bedfellows in actor Sandrine Kiberlain’s debut directorial feature.

Cinema Sabaya

This year’s Israeli Oscar submission is directed in an effortlessly authentic faux-documentary style, so much so that it often feels like the real thing.

Irreversible: Straight Cut

To Gaspar Noé’s credit, this edit does not feel more conventional than its predecessor. It is, however, revealing to watch, and not for reasons Noé intends.

Let It Be Morning

A droll comedy/drama of an Arab village in Israel stuck in limbo.

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

The film nimbly becomes a thriller without shedding its established rhythm. Before you know it, the tone has turned uncomfortably ominous. 

Godland

The austere setting of the Icelandic tundra gives Godland the visual trappings of a man vs. nature story. However, it is more complex than that.

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.