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Sleepless Night

Directed by Frédéric Jardin Produced by Marco Cherqui & Lauranne Bourrachot Written by Jadrin, Nicolas Saada & Olivier Douyère Released by Tribeca Film, available on Tribeca on Demand France/Belgium/Luxembourg. 108 min. Not rated With Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier, Joey Starr, Lizzie Brocheré, Laurent Stocker & Birol Ünel Frédéric Jardin’s slickly shot and edited […]

Goodbye First Love

Written & Directed by Mia Hansen-Love Produced by Philippe Martin & David Thion Released by Sundance Selects French with English subtitles. France/Germany. 110 min. Not rated With Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Havard Brekke, Valérie Bonneton, Serge Renko & Ozay Fecht Since the beginning of time, people have been falling in and out of love with […]

Monsieur Lazhar

Written & Directed by Philippe Falardeau, based on the stage play by Evelyne de la Chenelière Produced by Luc Déry & Kim McCraw Released by Music Box Films French with English subtitles. Canada. 94 min. Rated PG-13 With Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx & Brigitte Poupart Director Philippe Falardeau certainly sets his sights […]

The Assault

Directed by Julien Leclercq Written by Leclercq & Simon Moutairou Produced by Leclercq, Julien Madon & Marc Olla French & Arabic with English subtitles Released by Screen Media Films France. 90 min. Rated R With Vincent Elbaz, Aymen Saïdi & Mélanie Bernier Director Julien Leclercq’s grippingly re-creates the true story of the hijacking by Arab […]

We Have a Pope

Directed by Nanni Moretti Produced by Moretti & Domenico Procacci Written by Moretti, Francesco Piccolo & Federica Pontremoli Released by Sundance Selects Italian with English subtitles. Italy/France. 104 min. Not rated With Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr, Renato Scarpa, Franco Graziosi, Camillo Milli, Roberto Nobile, Ulrich von Dobschütz, Gianluca Gobbi & Margherita Buy What if the […]

Bullhead

Written & Directed by Michael R. Roskam Produced by Bart Van Langendonck, Peter Bouckaert, Patrick Quinet & Jan Van der Zanden Released by Drafthouse Films Flemish & French with English subtitles Belgium. 126 min. Rated R With Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Barbara Sarafian, Jeanne Dandoy, Tibo & Sam Louwyck Bullhead must have been one hell […]

Turn Me On, Dammit!

Written & Directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, based on the novel Fa Meg Pa, For Faen! by Olaug Nilssen Produced by Brede Hovland & Sigve Endresen Released by New Yorker Films Norwegian with English subtitles Norway. 76 min. Not Rated With Helene Bergsholm, Malin Bjorhovde, Beate Stofring, Matias Myren, Lars Nordtveit Listau & Henriette Steenstrup […]

The Raid: Redemption

Edited, Written & Directed by Gareth Huw Evans Produced by Ario Sagantoro Released by Sony Pictures Classics Indonesian with English subtitles Indonesia/USA. 100 min. Rated R With Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Doni Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian, Pierre Gruno, Ray Sahetapy, Tegar Satrya, Iang Darmawan, Eka Rahmadia & Verdi Solaiman The stupefying, pulpy excess of Gareth Huw Evans’s […]

Footnote

Written & Directed by Joseph Cedar Produced by David Mandil, Moshe Edery & Leon Edery Released by Sony Pictures Classics Israel. 105 min. Rated PG Hebrew with English subtitles With Shlomo Bar Aba, Lior Ashkenazi, Alisa Rosen, Alma Zak, Daniel Markovich, Micah Lewesohn, Yuval Scharf & Nevo Kimchi Academic politics is said to be the […]