Part of the movie’s punch can be chalked up to the sheer audacity of its titular character: a monster of self-absorption, flighty, rude, and prone to oversharing and interrupting.

Director Jacques Audiard goes lighter this time around with a study of reckless and sometimes feckless youth.

A film that hearkens back to folkloric storytelling.

A charming French film that has its feet in working-class solidarity and its head in the stars.

A piercing portrayal of the numbness that grieving perpetuates.

An engaging, if familiar, cinematic bonbon that owes its appeal to Catherine Frot’s winning performance and its unusual subject, the rarified world of rose breeding and flower competitions. Oh, for the revival of Odorama!

A British period drama that subverts the polite conventions of the genre with its frank depiction of sex.

Kate Dolan’s ability to create maximum tension with a minimal budget and scant practical effects marks her as a director to watch.

Not an easy film to watch, this dark satire is challenging, violent, gruesome, and maybe even necessary.