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Festivals

The Turning of the Earth

By José Teodoro
September 10, 2018
Alfonso Cuarón’s richly realized Roma surrounds us with the bourgeois Mexico City of his youth, seen through the eyes of another

Interview: Jodie Mack

By Jordan Cronk
September 7, 2018
Pattern recognition: oh, the places you’ll go with the director of a handmade fabric fantasia on film

Toronto Interview: Tim Sutton

By Amy Taubin
September 7, 2018
Fighting chance: the director of Donnybrook paints a grim vision of rural America through winner-takes-all cage-matches

Venice Interview: Mike Leigh

By Nicolas Rapold
September 5, 2018
Vox populi: Peterloo shows the perilous struggle behind an 1819 democratic protest for voting rights in an era of crushing inequality

Festivals: Venice

By Nicolas Rapold
September 5, 2018
Old hands: the usual distractions of the hype industry on the Lido fortunately can't obscure true grit

Intimations of Mortality

By Nicolas Rapold
September 4, 2018
Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman’s postcard from the Midwest, detects the lengthening shadows beyond the all-American sunshine

The Paragon of Animals

By Michael Koresky
September 4, 2018
With their multi-part yarn The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen Brothers mosey on back to the Old West to survey the eternal disappointment that is man

Venice Film of the Week: ROMA

By Jonathan Romney
August 31, 2018
Family portrait: Alfonso Cuarón re-creates the past on a grand yet intimate scale through the eyes of a Mexico City housekeeper

Law of the Land

By Amy Taubin
August 27, 2018
In Ash Is Purest White, in theaters March 15, Jia Zhangke charts how one woman survives and thrives on the criminal margins

Venice 2018 Cheat Sheet

By Nicolas Rapold
August 27, 2018
Island of cinema: your handy preview of the movies in the festival's 75th edition