Film-Forward

Director Rungano Nyoni creates a rich and intriguing world that reveals a fraught family drama through the lens of a specific community.

It wouldn’t be a French film festival without Isabelle Huppert, and she arrives this year in Patricia Mazuy’s Visiting Hours.

Four recommendations for this must-see annual festival.

A half-baked and only fitfully amusing parody of Star Wars and Dune, of all things.

The movie is an unlikely success, one that illuminates the meaning of a place and the passage of time with subtlety and poignancy.

The biopic of wrestler Mildred Burke is at its best when it embraces the pageantry and over-the-top performances of the squared circle.

For now-adult fans who grew up watching Robert Pattinson in “The Twilight Saga,” there may be a particular appeal here in a three-way scene with not one, but two Pattinsons.

Emmanuel Mouret’s, sharply written, breezy, and engaging chamber piece opened the annual festival.

The strong and ambitious Daughters is the most assured of the bunch.