The Devil’s Bath
By Guillermo Lopez Meza July 3, 2024
The raw and distressing film depicts how the desire to die found in religion becomes a brutal and sinister way of getting relief.
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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
By Paul Weissman June 28, 2024
A gutsy, quiet movie with a tinge of melancholy to go with its offbeat premise.
Last Summer
By Caroline Ely June 27, 2024
A tense, gripping story of an ultra-dangerous liaison, Catherine Breillat’s latest film makes every scene count and keeps you hooked.
Kinds of Kindness
By Rania Richardson June 21, 2024
A macabre triptych in the style of director Yorgos Lanthimos’s earlier work.
Green Border
By Kevin Filipski
A border crisis is the subject of Agnieszka Holland’s incendiary new film, which forcefully wears its anger on its sleeve.
Tiger Stripes
By Shah Shahid June 13, 2024
This allegory takes some of the worst experiences of puberty to become, at times, a genuinely bewildering horror movie.
Ghostlight
By Andrew Plimpton
A small and subtle triumph of acting. The characters are all drawn with empathy and are often surprising.
Robot Dreams
By Guillermo Lopez Meza June 7, 2024
Director Pablo Berger has crafted a fantastical tale of great visual (and sonic) inventiveness that is as gorgeous to look at as it is emotionally bittersweet.
Hit Man
By Guillermo Lopez Meza
Richard Linklater’s latest is a lot of things at once, and each one of them is excellent.