Film-Forward

The strongest asset and most captivating force here is Sally Hawkins. It’s a shame there’s not more Sally Hawkins on our screens every year.

Director Ferzan Özpetek and actor Toni Servillo are back in the annual showcase.

Restraint here is powerful and multifaceted and dramatically effective, signaling terrors rather than drowning us in them.

A basketball game, a terrorist siege, and quicksand escapades are part of the colorful set of adventures during its brisk runtime of under two hours.

The new film by Aboriginal filmmaker Warwick Thornton explores the forced assimilation of Aboriginal children into Western society and religion—and the tragedy that unfolds.

If only life was like a Jane Austen novel.

A careful observer of human nature, Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s script is filled with experiences deeply specific to a time and place, yet universally relatable.

In one of the most impressive cinematic experiments of the decade, Jia Zhangke pushes the boundaries of how far movies can play with time and generate new meanings.

A contemporary take of Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel that is elegant and intriguing, but also restrained and austere.