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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.

No Bears

Currently serving a prison sentence in his native Iran, lauded director Jafar Panahi spins two and a half tales in his latest film. None reflects well on his country’s state of mind.

Last Film Show

Both The Fabelmans and Last Film Show pose the mystery of why some become so enamored with movies and filmmaking.

EO

The turbulent life of a spirited equine.

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.

Argentina, 1985

A tightly structured, informative, and cinematic depiction of the most important trial in Argentinian history. It’s also among the best movies of the year