Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me and Jem Cohen's Little, Big, and Far are both richly attuned to the surfaces of things ...

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist ends in Venice, at the 1980 Biennale Architettura, where the film’s fictional protagonist, László Tóth (Adrien Brody), is being honored for his lifetime achievements in ...

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Early in her 2019 essay film, Letter to a Friend, Palestinian artist Emily Jacir cuts from journalistic footage of the Israeli military firing tear gas onto her street in Bethlehem to a video she ...

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Call it Stranger in the Village. After being away for many years, Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) returns to the village where he grew up, in southwestern France, on the occasion of a funeral. A zigzag game of ...

The films I saw at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival offered an array of welcome surprises. Given the brutalities that have beset the world since the festival’s previous edition, Hard ...

Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is the latest in a string of recent films directed by women—Julia Ducournau’s Titane (2021), Amanda Nell Eu’s Tiger Stripes (2023), and Rose Glass’s Love Lies Bleeding ...

Grief and loss are both overpowering and elusive, impossible to examine directly but always present for the stricken, like a sunspot on the edge of one’s vision. We struggle to confront and describe ...