‘From Hilde, With Love’ Review: Stirring German Drama Spotlights a Heroine of the Anti-Nazi Resistance
Liv Lisa Fries stars as Hilde Coppi, a left-wing member of a cell in the German Resistance group the Red Orchestra, in Andreas Dresen's drama.
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‘My Favourite Cake’ Review: From Iran, a Delectable Later-Life Love Story
Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha's Berlinale competitor revolves around the romance between a 70-year-old widow and a same-aged divorced taxi driver.
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‘Turn in the Wound’ Review: Abel Ferrara Interweaves Ukraine Footage With Coverage of Patti Smith in a Sincere Documentary
The 'Bad Lieutenant' director's latest, a non-fiction portrait of war and art, bowed out of competition at the Berlin Film Festival.
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‘Argylle’ Review: Henry Cavill and Dua Lipa Get Lost in Spy Caper’s Meta Hall of Mirrors
Director Matthew Vaughn and screenwriter Jason Fuchs offer up a spoof of espionage antics, with a side order of romance, starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Sam Rockwell.
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‘Kneecap’ Review: A Cheeky Irish Rap Comedy Featuring Michael Fassbender
Like '8 Mile,' this scripted work premiering in Sundance's NEXT sidebar tells its stars' own stories, with a big dollop of dramatic license.
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‘The Kitchen’ Review: Daniel Kaluuya’s Directorial Debut Is a Compellingly Dark Futurist Vision of London
Co-helmed by Kibwe Tavares, the closing night gala selection for the BFI London Film Festival is an absorbing study of survival.
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‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ Review: Aardman’s Birds of a Feather Flock Together for a Spirited Sequel
With a voice cast including Thandiwe Newton, Bella Ramsey, Zachary Levi and Imelda Staunton, the film premiered at the BFI London Film Festival before it starts a run on Netflix.
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of the Fall FestsÂ
Career highs for Emma Stone and Nicolas Cage, a delicious Frederick Wiseman doc, a poignant gay ghost story and two knockout dramas about the refugee crisis in Europe are among THR critics’ 15 faves from Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘Housekeeping for Beginners’ Review: A Delightful Dramatic Comedy About a Blended Family of Queer and Roma Outcasts
Winner of the Queer Lion in Venice, Goran Stolevski's film revolves around a set of characters living together in a house in North Macedonia.
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‘Gasoline Rainbow’ Review: The Ross Brothers’ Teen Road Movie Is a Pleasurable Ride
The latest from Bill and Turner Ross is about a group of high-school friends who set out to see the Pacific.
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‘Coup!’ Review: Peter Sarsgaard Is a Winning Impostor in a Droll and Breezy Take on Class Conflict
A collaboration between writer-directors Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman, the class-conflict-themed comedy is set during the flu epidemic of 1918 and also stars Billy Magnussen and Sarah Gadon.
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‘Shoshana’ Review: Michael Winterbottom’s Deft Exploration of Love and Activism Under British Rule of Palestine
Irina Starshenbaum, Harry Melling and Douglas Booth star in the British director's politics-inflected romance.
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