The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
By Paul Weissman November 27, 2018
A solid Coen brothers outing with some exceptional moments and their most mature 30 minutes yet.
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Shoplifters
By Phil Guie November 21, 2018
A moving drama focusing on characters living on society’s periphery and winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes.
Widows
By Caroline Ely November 16, 2018
A moody, fleet-footed story of four women out for revenge—and big money.
The Other Side of the Wind
By Guillermo Lopez Meza November 9, 2018
More than 40 years after it began production, Orson Welles’s last but longtime unfinished project has finally been completed and paid for by Netflix.
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
By Alasdair Bayman November 7, 2018
Morgan Neville’s documentary acts as the perfect precursor to Orson Welles’s infamous, long in the making film, The Other Side of Wind.
A Bread Factory
By Phil Guie November 4, 2018
This daring and thought-provoking comedy-drama centers on something decidedly unsexy yet vital: the act of community-building.
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
By Guillermo Lopez Meza November 2, 2018
A documentary that is an act of gratitude and a meditation on the Swedish director’s films.
Shirkers
By Phil Guie October 25, 2018
In this sincere, engrossing documentary, director Sandi Tan looks back at a quirky indie film she helped make that captured a mostly bygone Singapore—and that suddenly vanished.
The Waldheim Waltz
By Nora Lee Mandel October 24, 2018
How does a president who lies about his past, distorts his country’s history into victimhood, promotes nationalism, and inflames anti-Semitism win an election?