The Citizen
By Phil Guie July 5, 2018
An exceptionally poignant drama that takes a critical lens at European ethnonationalism.
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Custody
By Caroline Ely June 27, 2018
Films have explored domestic violence before, but it’s likely that Xavier Legrand’s debut feature is among the most powerful.
Three Identical Strangers
By Phil Guie
The engrossing film raises the age-old debate: Is nature or nurture the more dominant force?
Leave No Trace
By Benjamin Tran
Actors Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie have a bond so achingly real that expositional dialogue seems almost superfluous.
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
By Nora Lee Mandel June 22, 2018
The feminist western you’ve been waiting for.
American Animals
By Kyle Mustain June 7, 2018
Based on a real-life incident, young upper-middle-class men turn to crime as a cure for boredom, and now they are the subject of a film that is anything but boring.
Summer 1993
By Phil Guie May 28, 2018
A richly observed, emotionally resonant drama told from the perspective of a six-year-old girl who has just lost her mother.
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
By Caroline Ely May 23, 2018
A portrait of an artist and a look at a time when punk, graffiti, and hip-hop flourished and overlapped in a decaying city.
The Most Unknown
By Benjamin Tran May 22, 2018
A gorgeous and intellectual tour of the world’s most curious scientific endeavors.