You Are Not My Mother
By Paul Weissman March 25, 2022
Kate Dolan’s ability to create maximum tension with a minimal budget and scant practical effects marks her as a director to watch.
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By Kent Turner March 21, 2022
This cringey comedy may be the best unofficial sequel to the 2010 documentary Catfish.
Intregalde
By Caroline Ely March 18, 2022
Radu Munteanu’s mordant comedy slides from a Romanian Green Acres to the grotesque.
Great Freedom
By Andrew Plimpton March 4, 2022
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.
After Yang
By Paul Weissman March 3, 2022
A rare genre film that doesn’t rely on gimmicks, special effects and, frankly, audience expectations.
Servants
By Andrew Plimpton February 24, 2022
Enter an insular, foreboding world, set largely in a Czechoslovakian seminary in the early 1980s.
Writing with Fire
By Phil Guie February 14, 2022
The Academy Award–nominated documentary starts out as an underdog story, but by the end, it’s about a big dog that can hold its own in any fight.
Give or Take
By Paul Weissman February 11, 2022
A sweet-natured, dryly funny comedy that is not afraid to address the complex emotions that inform its humor.
Playground
By Caroline Ely February 10, 2022
An unflinching, immersive look at childhood bullying that plunges us deep into a child’s agitated POV.