Why Chloé Zhao Returned With ‘Hamnet’ After a 4-Year Hiatus
“I can never quite pinpoint why I choose stories,” muses Chloé Zhao. “I think they choose me.” It’s…
Ian McKellen & Michaela Coel Do Soderbergh
Shake the family trees of many celebrated artists nearing the end of their lives and you’re likely to…
A Spellbinding Argentinian Character Study
The venerable but overcrowded “unraveling woman” subgenre gets a shot in the arm with The Currents (Las Corrientes),…
Angelina Jolie in Wispy Paris Fashion Week Drama
Genre-hopping French writer-director Alice Winocour describes Couture as a “memento mori,” but its contemplative musings on mortality, trauma…
Russell Crow & Rami Malek in Potent, Timely Drama
In the days immediately following the end of World War II in Europe, a U.S. Supreme Court justice…
Leslie Mann in Maude Apatow’s Directorial Bow
Maude Apatow’s directorial debut Poetic License is an intergenerational coming-of-age film about an aimless middle-aged wife and mother…
Chris Evans in Romain Gavras’ Heady Cult Thriller
At first, it seems that Sacrifice, from French director Romain Gavras, is trying to do its best Triangle…
Cillian Murphy Swaps ‘Oppenheimer’ Bombast for Raw Drama in ‘Steve’
Post-Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy has used his Oscar cache to get the films he wants made. In the two…
Sydney Sweeney Joins Best Actress Oscar Race With ‘Christy’
A thin best actress Oscar race was jolted on Friday afternoon by the Toronto International Film Festival’s world…
‘Forastera’ Explores Family Trauma On a Vacation Hit by Tragedy
A bucolic summer vacation is transformed by tragedy in Forastera, the debut feature from Spanish director Lucía Aleñar…