Ryusuke Hamaguchi has masterfully and thrillingly expanded Haruki Murakami’s typically spare and evocative short story into a three-hour feature.

The one individual who has the largest imprint on this 21st-century retelling is its screenwriter, Tony Kushner, more so than its director, Steven Spielberg. 

This vertigo-inducing animated feature offers proof that 2D provides just as many stomach-turning, vicarious thrills (or fears) as 3-D animation.

A thoroughly entertaining and insightful documentary, even if it’s not the definitive biography of the band.

Two more Radu Jude films torch Romanian ignorance, authoritarianism, and poltroonery. The borderline-bonkers Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn churns with incendiary ideas, while Uppercase Print condemns Ceausescu–era repression with clunky sincerity.

As so often happens with international films, this movie is much more accurately represented by its original Japanese title, Coincidence and Imagination, than its English translation.

The straightforward and innocent way of how kids perceive the world, despite how complicated and rough the surroundings, is remarkably depicted in the splendid first feature film by Tatiana Huezo.

A lively portrait of how good local journalism reflects the lives of those who read it.

Don’t watch Julia Cohen and Betsy West’s delightful documentary about Julia Child on an empty stomach.