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.

A deadpan depiction of a fallen society, in which the seismic effects of war for years have yielded lawlessness and chaos.

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!

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

This cringey comedy may be the best unofficial sequel to the 2010 documentary Catfish. 

Radu Munteanu’s mordant comedy slides from a Romanian Green Acres to the grotesque.

Watching the ways the prison-bound relationships vary in their complications, compromises, and resolutions is one of the more moving aspects of director Sebastian Meise’s film.

A rare genre film that doesn’t rely on gimmicks, special effects and, frankly, audience expectations.

Enter an insular, foreboding world, set largely in a Czechoslovakian seminary in the early 1980s.